DHS budget up 6 percent for 2007
Feb 9, 2006
DHS asks private sector for border help
Feb 9, 2006
More F's Than A's
BY PAUL ROTHMAN
The former 9/11 Commission has given Congress and the White House poor marks on protecting the U.S. against an inevitable terror attack because of their...
5 VIEWS, 1 GOAL
BY MICHAEL FICKES
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY: Homeland security starts with situational awareness. What is happening along the nation's borders, in its ports and airports, on its highways and in its...
Know What Needs Protecting
BY RAY SUMMERELL
A basic lack of information on Federal facilities may stand in the way of complying with a Presidential Directive to safeguard these facilities from terrorists....
Water-Borne Studies
BY ERIN SEMPLE
Stevens Institute and the U.S. Navy have worked together to create a new model for Homeland security technology applications after Sept. 11, 2001. A high-tech...
WHAT WORKS
Oct 1, 2005
Video analytics operate in real-time at New Jersey Transit New Jersey Transit (NJT) is the United States' largest statewide public transportation system....
ON THE FRONT LINES
BY ERIN SEMPLE
With more than 1,800 security professionals nationwide and operations in 17 states, USProtect places its armed security professionals at access control...
Money Talks
BY PAUL ROTHMAN
House and Senate negotiators have approved a $31.9 billion measure for the Homeland Security Department's next budget year. It directs a higher percentage...
PLAN AHEAD TO MAXIMIZE BENEFITS TO HSPD-12 INVESTMENT
BY DAVID BELCHICK
With Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) being implemented, nearly every employee and contractor in the federal government is set to...
Shoring up the Borders
BY PAUL ROTHMAN
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff has waived certain legal requirements necessary to complete a 3-mile gap in the 14-mile-long...
SPENDING FEDERAL SECURITY GRANTS WISELY
Oct 1, 2005
After receiving a modest federal port security grant in a recent funding round, a U.S. port agency has selected and installed an elaborate, state-of-the-art...
TECHNOLOGY VS. TERROR
BY MICHAEL FICKES
After the Sept. 11 attacks, investigators followed a trail that led from the ashes of the World Trade Center and the damaged Pentagon back across the...
Defending Home Air
BY MICHAEL FICKES
In May, unauthorized pilots flew small single-engine planes within miles of the White House twice. Two Air Force F-16 fighters intercepted both planes...
Fingerprinting Under Fire
BY PAUL ROTHMAN
Last autumn, Stanford professor Lawrence Wein detected a serious problem in the federal government's US-VISIT program, designed to capture terrorists...
IT Flaws Come Into Focus
BY PAUL ROTHMAN
Vulnerabilities seem to be running rampant in federal computer systems. Both the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General and the Government...
A DROP OF PREVENTION
BY MICHAEL FICKES
Could terrorists contaminate the water supply of a major city? Probably. People have been contaminating water supplies inadvertently for decades. A 2002...
AMERICA THE RESILIENT
By MICHAEL FICKES
In 2004, Steven Flynn (pictured) published America the Vulnerable, a book that critiques the nation's current approach to Homeland security and presents...
Wanted: Cybersecurity Leader
BY PAUL ROTHMAN
A bill that would create a high-level cybersecurity official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been approved by a House of Representatives...
DHS DABBLESIN PRIME TIME
Apr 1, 2005
Following the Pentagon, CIA, FBI and other government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security has hired a Hollywood liaison to work with moviemakers...
How Prepared Are We?
BY PAUL ROTHMAN
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has created the Interim National Preparedness Goal, designed to give all Americans guidance on effectively and...
A Failure of Imagination
by David Gaier
The biggest challenge in protecting America's people, territory and infrastructure is the failure of imagination cited by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission....
Meet Homeland Security's New Face
By Paul Rothman
President Bush has named federal appeals court judge Michael Chertoff to be Homeland Security secretary, filling the last hole in his second-term Cabinet...
Protecting the Economy
by Michael Fickes
Nearly four years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, some experts have begun to revise the definition of terrorism. More than an effort to spread fear...
Calling All People
by Michael Fickes
At the behest of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cook County, Ill., has undertaken a collaborative project with its 128 municipalities. The...
