Homeland Security News

The Borderpol Conference & Exhibition will be held October 16-17, 2012, in Central Hall Westminster, London, UK. The focus of this event is on the current and future issues facing the border management, border protection, security and migration management sector. Controlling and managing international borders in the 21st Century continues to challenge the border control and immigration agencies around the world. Advancements in technology are assisting in the battle to maintain safe and secure international travel. The border security professional still remains the front line against these threats.

The BORDERPOL Conference is designed for the policy makers, practitioners, senior strategists, border security and management personnel and aims to investigate and address the issues, challenges and solutions covering a range of topics:

• Information sharing between agencies
• International and national inter-agency cooperation
• Global challenges and policies of migration and refugee movement
• Manipulation of migration movement, its impact on communities, refugee programmes and alternatives for the future
• Privacy conerns of individuals and sovereign national institutes in a borderless world
• Standardisation of international systems and creation of common policies
• Problems and challenges in intelligence
• Future echnologies for promoting safe and secure borders
• Europe’s frontiers, the problems, challenges and solutions
• The impact of the Arab Spring on migration challenges
• Relationship between military and civil authorities on borders
• Regional challenges and updates from Europe, Asia, USA, Middle East and Africa
• Shengen area – is it working and a blueprint of success for other regions

HLS 2012, Israel’s leading annual event for Homeland Security, will be held on September 11, 2012, as a reminder that the term Homeland Security was “born” after the 9-11 attacks. The HLS Conference focuses on electronic systems constituting the basis for HLS solutions. The Conference will present development trends in the sector, different approaches to solutions and dealing with the challenges that this field presents for the developers and manufacturers of designated equipment in this field, innovative technologies, sensors and innovative components.

Among the many topics scheduled for the conference are:

• Advanced systems for handling crises
• Communications
• Imparting video pictures
• Processing pictures and extracting information
• Control and command systems
• Observation and monitoring and more

International Biometric Performance Testing Conference (IBPC) 2012 will be held on March 5-9, 2012, in Gaithersburg, MD. The conference aims to identify fundamental, relevant, effective, and new performance metrics and to expose best practices for performance evaluation, calibration and design. New performance results are not themselves in scope - instead the intention is to capture relevant and recent quantitative testing, measurement and system-identification techniques to contrast those with the past, and to outline what is needed in the future. The overarching goal is to refine the concept of biometric performance and to ultimately elevate adoption and effectiveness of biometric technologies.

The twelfth annual IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST ’12), will be held 13-15 November 2012 in Greater Boston, Massachusetts.

Produced by IEEE with technical support from DHS S&T, IEEE Biometrics Council, IEEE Boston Section, and IEEE-USA and organizational support from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Raytheon, Battelle, and MITRE, this conference brings together innovators from leading universities, research laboratories, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, small businesses, system integrators and the end user community and provides a forum to discuss ideas, concepts and experimental results. This year’s event will showcase selected technical papers and posters highlighting emerging technologies in the areas of:

• Cyber Security,
• Attack and Disaster Preparation, Recovery, and Response,
• Land and Maritime Border Security
• Biometrics & Forensics

To register click here.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the expansion of passenger pre-screening initiative to additional airports across the country following the program’s success at seven pilot locations. With more than 336,000 passengers screened to date through TSA Pre✓™ lanes, this screening concept enhances security by enabling TSA to focus its efforts on passengers the agency knows less about while providing expedited screening for travelers who volunteer information about themselves prior to flying.

TSA Pre✓™ is currently operating with American Airlines at airports in Dallas, Miami, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Los Angeles, and with Delta Air Lines at airports in Atlanta, Detroit, Las Vegas, and Minneapolis. US Airways, United Airlines and Alaska Airlines are all opting in new passengers and will begin operations later this year. The passenger pre-screening initiative will be implemented at the following airport locations throughout 2012:

• Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)
• Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
• Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT)
• Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG)
• Denver International Airport (DEN)
• Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL)
• George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)
• Honolulu International Airport (HNL)
• Indianapolis International Airport (IND)
• John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
• LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
• Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL)
• Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)
• Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU)
• Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)
• O’Hare International Airport (ORD)
• Orlando International Airport (MCO)
• Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)
• Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)
• Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)
• Portland International Airport (PDX)
• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)
• Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC)
• San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
• Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
• Tampa International Airport (TPA)
• Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC)
• Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)

The Director of Homeland Security Programs is a key leadership position within the university. The Director provides the resources for a quality learning experience for students by ensuring coherence in the discipline and relevance to the practice. This management position contributes to Read more…

DHS releases Blueprint for Cybersecurity in the face of growing cyber security concerns. The Blueprint for a Secure Cyber Future is based on the Department of Homeland Security Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Report’s strategic framework by providing a strategy for secure and resilient cyber environment. With this guide, stakeholders at all levels of government and the private sector can establish common language to develop the cybersecurity capabilities.

The Blueprint breaks down cybersecurity into two areas of action:

• Protecting our Critical Information Infrastructure Today
• and Building a Stronger Cyber Ecosystem for Tomorrow.

The Chemical Sector Security Summit 2012 will be held on July 30 – August 2, 2012 at Baltimore, Md. The sixth annual Summit will provide a forum for representatives from the chemical community to exchange information and network with other security professionals, share best practices, learn more about chemical security regulations, and gain insight into the roles of state, local, and federal agencies and departments involved in chemical security. The National Protection & Programs Directorate’s Office of Infrastructure Protection (NPPD/IP) and the Chemical Sector Coordinating Council are co-sponsoring the 2012 Chemical Sector Security Summit in Baltimore, Maryland.

EQI is the Israeli company that provides the earthquake early warning solutions presented at ISDEF 2011.

Israeli Minister of the Home Front Defense Matan Vilnai: Preparedness is Everything

S.T.I. Ltd has presented UVIS (under vehicle inspection system) at ISDEF 2011. S.T.I. Ltd provides explosive detection solutions for homeland security market.