Research
CCAT eyes funding for first responder technologies
April 22nd, 2008
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) San Diego plans to award technology transition assistance to Department of Defense-funded technologies developed principally in small companies that can be adapted to meet the needs of first responders.
Assessing the user friendliness of the DHS Web site
March 21st, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security has hired a private company to measure the satisfaction that visitors to its multi-faceted Web site (www.dhs.gov) experience when they visit the site.
Florida Marlins to help Border Patrol recruitment campaign
March 19th, 2008
First, it was the sponsorship of car #28 in the NASCAR racing series. Next, it was a multi-media recruitment campaign focused on the Dallas Cowboys football team and their beloved cheerleaders. Now, it’s another promotional effort to attract new Border Patrol agents focused on the sun-tanned Florida Marlins baseball team.
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DHS seeks better bioforensic tools
March 17th, 2008
The federal government’s forensic specialists, who would be called to the scene of a suspected bio-agent attack, want better tools to identify the agents they find and to compare those agents with other bio-agents they might collect at a suspected terrorist’s home laboratory.
Terror response: RAND study evaluates "novel" threats
March 14th, 2008
If a terrorist group has the potential to commit a specific type of attack – but has not proven it can do so – does that justify major changes in homeland security spending? Not necessarily, according to a new RAND Corp. study.
Directory of bio-threat experts to be organized
March 14th, 2008
Moments after a terrorist attack using anthrax or another deadly bio-agent is not the time for government officials to be asking themselves, "Which expert should we call?"
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New "PREDICT" database to aid cyber security researchers
March 14th, 2008
The science and technology directorate of DHS is establishing a new database of network security operational information, which is nicknamed PREDICT, that authorized IT security researchers in the U.S. can use to develop new models, technologies and products to safeguard cyber space.
TSA launches search for the perfect laptop bag
March 4th, 2008
Relief may be on the way for the one-quarter of the flying public who routinely carry laptop computers through airport security checkpoints and currently are required to remove their laptops from their protective carrying bags.
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