The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Secret process benefits pet projects Despite Obama’s promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the government is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence. This allowed low-priority projects such as the checkpoint in […]
With the completion of the Task Force’s Report on the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) now done we have a pretty good idea of how of the oft-maligned terror warning system is going to be restructured. In the eight years since 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, we are finally beginning to put the hard-earned lessons into policies, protocols and operations that can better guide current and future homeland leaders of every sector.
Researchers at Leicester University have used research in crime and space technology to develop a system for the detection of counterfeit pharmaceutical packaging. Professor George Fraser and Professor Martin Gill are heading the Spectral ID project based on work carried out by Leicester University spinout Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International (PRCI) and the university’s Space Research Center.
By Guest Contributor Douglas Doan
President Obama’s stimulus funds to the Department of Homeland Security were designed to improve infrastructure, creating an excellent opportunity to improve our ports-of-entry infrastructure and improve the economy via enhanced trade facilitation. Instead, Customs and Border Protection has used those funds to advance purely enforcement operations. Perhaps CBP should become cBP — or maybe just BP — as customs funding is so often diverted to protection operations.
Air Transport Association Says TSA Certified Cargo Screening Program Key to Meeting… | Reuters The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, in a letter to air cargo shippers regarding the congressionally mandated August 2010 deadline for 100 percent screening of all cargo on passenger planes, outlined […]
Border Patrol Begins Construction on SBInet Technology on Northern Border – CBP.gov U.S. Border Patrol began construction Wednesday on the deployment of eleven Remote Video Surveillance Sites in the Detroit Sector as part of Customs and Border Protections initiative to enhance the use of technology in securing the northern border against illegal cross-border activity. The […]
Disputed E-Verify rules go into effect (9/8/09) — GovExec.com A coalition of business groups continued to wage a legal battle Tuesday as a government mandate took effect requiring federal contractors to verify the immigration status of employees working on government projects.
I am told, almost as if by way of explanation, that the people doing the shooting in Juarez are very good at what they do. They kill well. They don’t often miss. This is not collateral damage. The executed can usually be tied to the drug trade. Gang-related, as they say in the United States. Small-time dealers who owe money. The double-crossed. The nasty business of achieving dominance over rivals. Still, that doesn’t account for the judges killed. The law enforcement agents and soldiers. The reporters who cover the killings and who end up resented and dead for the effort. It doesn’t account, exactly, for the 18 murdered in cold blood at the rehab center on September 3rd.
Homeland Security National Review Dialogue Round 2 – QHSR : Homeland Security News If you’ve registered and are participating in the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR),your comments are being read, your voice is being heard, and your ideas are being considered and discussed at the highest levels in the Department of Homeland Security. One brief […]
Chertoff Featured in National Press Club Power Lunch Panel with Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Harris Corporation’s Dr. John Vaughan on Public Safety/First Responder Communications and Tactical Interoperability in the Post 9/11 World. Thursday, September 3, 12:00-1:15 PM; doors open at 11:45 AM What: Panel discussion of tactical communications and interoperability among fire […]
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