This week, Congressional Quarterly ran a chemical security-related article that highlighted how a process known as on-site generation can be used to augment a reliance on chlorine for water purification. As chemical security legislation (H.R. 2868) moves from the House to the Senate, it’s my hope that legislators will stay focused on the issue of security, rather than getting lost on the issue of process.
In an interview with CQ Homeland Security, Security Debrief’s Rich Cooper makes the case as to why TSA nominee Erroll Southers would make a good leader for the federal law enforcement agency.
The Border Patrol Foundation held its first annual recognition dinner in downtown D.C. to tout the creation of an organization whose mission is to “provide timely financial grants to the families of fallen” Border Patrol agents. Border Patrol agents often operate alone, in remote areas of our nation, many minutes and miles from backup or support. But given the impressive support shown by the Washington community at its inaugural event on Friday night, the Border Patrol Foundation appears to be off to a solid start.
U.S. GAO – Aviation Security: DHS and TSA Have Researched, Developed, and Begun Deploying Passenger Checkpoint Screening Technologies, but Continue to Face Challenges Since fiscal year 2002, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have invested over $795 million in technologies to screen passengers at airport checkpoints. The DHS Science […]
GAO: TSA continues to face challenges in finding and deploying checkpoint screening technology | Homeland Security News Wire Since TSA’s creation, ten passenger screening technologies have been in various phases of research, development, test and evaluation, procurement, and deployment, but TSA has not deployed any of these technologies to airports nationwide
At U.S. airports, TSA officers covertly monitor travelers’ behavior – washingtonpost.com To identify potentially dangerous individuals, the Transportation Security Administration has stationed specially trained behavior-detection officers at 161 U.S. airports. The officers may be positioned anywhere, from the parking garage to the gate, trying to spot passengers who show an unusual level of nervousness or […]
With the probable execution of John Allen Muhammad in Virginia this week and the tragic rampage at Fort Hood by U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, still fresh in the American public’s memory, the term “terrorism” is being used quite a bit by the news media. While there are those who would seek to link the two very different incidents to one another, is it proper to use the word “terrorism” to accurately describe what these men did?
Two miles from home, on what had been a typical evening, I sat on a Metrobus last week and saw a bright orange flash cut through the dark night – 50 feet in front of us, a car erupted in flames. To my horror, someone was inside. When action was needed, four brave men ran to the burning car to answer their unexpected call to duty. At its very essence, this is Homeland Security – it’s America in action.
Fort Hood Tragedy… Muslim Soldiers Speak Out – IslamOnline.net – News Several Muslims who have served or are currently serving in the military say the tragic deaths of 13 soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas, at the hands of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan is an individual action that does not represent them, insisting that Muslims […]
FEMA Regional Summit Offers Ideas For Developing “Culture Of Preparedness” Incl. Changing Term “Preparedness,” Establishing Disaster Survivors Advisory Group, Recruiting Oprah To The Issue I recently read an interesting report, “A Strategy for Developing ‘A Culture of Preparedness,’” which summarizes the work of FEMA Region V’s “2009 “Preparedness Summit.” Held in Chicago in January, the […]
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