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Commercial Mobile Alert Service used widely during Hurricane Sandy

The high winds, heavy rain, and storm surges are dying down along the East Coast today. We have yet to account for the total damage done by Hurricane Sandy, and many areas of New York City are still flooded.

Presidential Debates: No Statements About Homeland Security

Another Presidential Debate season has come and gone and still no statements on the topic of Homeland Security or emergency management.

Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists

Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the “disposition matrix.”

DHS realigns cyber office into five divisions

The Homeland Security Department’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications is expanding to five divisions from three and creating a performance-management office.

Four Simple Things You Can Do to Become Prepared for Disasters

The “Earthquake Prophet of Doom” James Roddey has put together four steps that people can use to get started on their preparedness journey.

Rise of the Machines: The Use of Drones in Public Safety

With advancements in technology making drones smaller, lighter, and less expensive, a growing number of public safety officials see the opportunity to leverage drones for their work.

Catastrophes are Predictable

Everyone seems surprised when some calamitous event occurs. Ted G. Lewis points out in his book Bak’s Sand Pile: Strategies for a Catastrophic World that these Black Swan events are really predictable and getting worse as we live in a more connected and interdependent world.

The Priorities of the new FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Chief

As AWARE previously reported, the Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Julius Genachowski, appointed David Turetsky as the Commission’s new Chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau in May 2012.

Task Force Issues Report on Predicting Violent Behavior

The Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Predicting Violent Behavior was initially created by the Department of Defense in the aftermath of the shooting at Ft. Hood in 2009, but it has since focused its research efforts on the subject of “targeted violence” and its perpetrators.