Homeland Security News

World leaders who expressed their congratulations on the successful American action to kill Osama bin Laden, which will make both the United States and the world more secure. Each of the President’s counterparts, including President Calderon, Prime Minister Cameron, Chancellor Merkel, Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Piñera, President Santos, and President Sarkozy, congratulated the President, and [...]

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Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano aid that the “Big Data” problem is the second most important homeland security challenge:
“A second homeland security challenge is what is sometimes referred to as the “Big Data” problem. Many of you probably deal with a version of this in your own work: [...]

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) Cyber Security Division’s (CSD) announce a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Fiscal Year 2011 to improve the security in both Federal networks and the larger Internet. This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks ideas and proposals for Research and [...]

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The Homeland Security Modeling and Simulation Workshop will be held February 8-9, 2011, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish modeling and simulation (M&S) technical interest groups (TIGs) with technical experts from the various M&S domains associated with homeland security. [...]

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SMi’s Counter CBRNe Operations conference (2 - 3 Feb 2011, Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London) returns for the 4th year, following on from the sell-out success of last year’s event to bring together industry experts to discuss all aspects of CBRNe operations.
This exceptional conference will offer delegates the chance to experience an exciting and diverse [...]

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Border Security 2011 (28 Feb – 1 March 2011, Sofia, Bulgaria), held in partnership with Borderpol, the World Border Organisation, is the leading European event dedicated to bringing together industry experts to examine the latest challenges facing the international border management community. Now in its 4th year, SMi’s forthcoming conference will present an exceptional line-up [...]

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Designing and maintaining databases for homeland security and defense applications is a challenge of cosmic proportions, considering a number of requirements to meet:

Resilience
Scalability
Speed of data access
No single point of failure
Distributed data acquisition and common data sharing
Managing massive unstructured data

For example, rapid image acquisition and analysis is an important initial source of information that can detail [...]

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Riot Control Technology has been demonstrated today at the opening of Israel Defence Exhibition (ISDEF) 2010.

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The 4th Annual Israel Defence Exhibition (ISDEF) for Army & Police is taking place on the 18 – 20 of October, 2010 in Israel.
ISDEF’s advantage is that it uses Israel’s excellent reputation as a world leader in the fields of Defence and Homeland Security and collaborates between major decision makers. Being the only major [...]

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In fiscal 2012 eight more homeland response force units will be established. The units are regional forces that will cross state lines when needed. They are part of a restructuring of the nation’s chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive consequence management enterprise. Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Utah and California each will [...]

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