Stuck on Security
Michael Fickes
The Department of Energy (DOE) has reactivated a Cold War technology called sticky foam to tighten security at sites that store bomb-grade processed uranium...
Re-Inventing The Public Safety Infrastructure
Michael Fickes
One component of the U.S. military success in Iraq has been information superiority, but here at home, emergency response systems are still using 19th...
New Standards for General Aviation Security
A coalition of general aviation associations established as a working group of the Transportation Security Administration's Aviation Security Advisory...
Overseas THREATS
By MICHAEL FICKES
Security intelligence can avert tragedy. Take the case of a Fortune 100 CEO who planned to meet with a provincial governor in India last November. The...
Locks Bring Courthouses To Order
The historic San Luis Obispo County Courthouse, located on California's Central Coast, has chosen Schlage Locknetics on Board Computer-Managed (CM) locksets...
Explosive Technology for Airports
The Australian Department for Transport and Regional Services is deploying explosives trace detectors from GE Ion Track, Plainville, Conn., at Australian...
POWER to protect
By MICHAEL FICKES
In October, a man named Michael D. Poulin mounted a bizarre attack on the electric power infrastructure. He drove to electric transmission towers in the...
New York Harbors Surveillance
The Barnegat Light Station on Long Beach Island, N.J., marks one of the primary approaches to New York harbor. Manned by the U.S. Coast Guard, the station...
DHS Allocates $2.2 Billion For Local Governments
The Department of Homeland Security has released a total of $2.2 billion in grants to first responders. Nearly $1.7 billion of the grants will be made...
Constitutional Security
Michael Fickes
The U.S. government has altered the way it protects America's founding documents to fit the grim realities of an age of terrorism. Last September, the...
Procurement Progress Propels Partnerships
The Homeland Security Industries Association (HSIA) has told Congress that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made significant progress in...
What's In a Name?
Michael Fickes
Who is Hajj Abdul Rahman Salih? Should a government border official permit him to enter the country? Can a U.S. bank make a loan to this person? Can he...
Automating Risk Response
Michael Fickes
Two days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Doug Pasley and another risk management officer with the Tampa police department received orders...
An Incubator For Homeland Technology
The Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC), headquartered in Annapolis, Md., near the hub of Homeland security activity, is 80 percent leased with early-stage...
AN EMERGENCY DISCUSSION WITH RICHARD ANDREWS
By Michael Fickes
Ranked among the world's leading authorities on crisis and emergency management, Richard Andrews currently serves as the principal consultant on emergency...
Setting the Bar for Homeland Security
Michael Fickes
How good should a magnetometer be? How should a border guard deal with a suspected terrorist? What should a first responder know about dealing with biological,...
Managing Risk and Protecting the Organization: A Military Team Approach
By Daniel Ward
During the 1990s, the Department of Defense (DoD) established so-called Force Protection Programs with the purpose of increasing awareness of the threat...
Welcome to WiFi Country
Michael Fickes
In rural Arizona, in the small town of Golden Valley, population 7,500, the telephone company charges approximately $4,500 per month for a broadband T1...
Security Through Secrecy
by Beth Wade
Are we safer because we are secret? In a growing number of states, legislators are answering Since Sept. 11, 2001, 39 states have expanded or amended...
Knowledge is Security
Thomas Wheatley
The National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination (NC4) focuses on bridging the public-private sector gaps in two areas. First, by focusing on...
FULL CONTACTLESS
In September, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) became the first federal agency to successfully implement the government's new contactless smart...
MITIGATING TERRORIST THREATS
By Roger B. Hutchins, CPP
Heard about ATFP lately? For those who work in the government sector especially those working at the Department of Defense (DoD) or related government...
Leave The Security To Us
By Michael Fickes
Dallas-based Greyhound Lines Inc. will nearly double its spending on security this year, thanks to a $9 million grant from the Transportation Security...
Systems Help Peer Through the Fog at Boston's Logan Airport
By Jacqueline Emigh
To tighten security in the waterways, highways and other byways around Boston's Logan International Airport, the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport)...
Tug of War
Paul Rothman
Many state and local officials say they aren't getting the money they need to fend off terrorism or to manage the aftermath of an attack, according to...
