Archived News
June 2008:
NCFPD - NCFPD Hosts G8 Exercise on Food Protection (June 2008) NCFPD hosted a three-day exercise on food supply protection for the G8 nations with fifty participants from Japan, Canada, France Germany, United Kingdom and United States. The exercise aimed to strengthen coordination, cooperation, and communication between G8 nations in the event of an intentional ... (read more of this article)
START - Complicated Task of Quantifying Terrorist Attacks Stirs Controversy (06/14/2008) As the nation prepares for the fall election season, a debate has broken out over the threat of terrorism. The Simon Frasier University-based Human Security Report Project reported in Maythat terrorist violence around the world has declined 40 percent over the last several years — a figure, the center reported, that stands in stark contrast to the findings of several U.S.-based sources, including ... (read more of this article)
START & PACER - State institutions pumping up forensic science offerings as proximity to D.C. lifts interest (05/29/2008) A college forensics lab might have a little less sizzle than television’s “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” but that’s where students are honing their skills to fight the bad guys. “Everything you see on CSI, we do it for real,” said Charles Tumosa, an assistant ... (read more of this article)
START in Newsweek - The Only Thing We Have to Fear... If you set aside the war in Iraq, terrorism has in fact gone way down of the past five years (06/02/2008) You know that we are living in scary times. Terrorist groups are metastasizing all over the globe. Al Qaeda has re-established its bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hizbullah, Hamas and other radical Islamic groups are ... (read more of this article)
START - Incidents of terrorism declining, says researchers (05/30/2008)A new report from Simon Fraser University in B.C. concludes there has been a sharp decline in the incidence of terrorist violence around the world, challenging ... (read more of this article)
START - START Continues Career Development Program: Announces Newest Scholarship Recipients (05/28/2008) START announces the second round of awards for the START Career Development Program. For the 2008 – 2009 academic year, START awarded three undergraduate scholarships and three ... (read more of this article)
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DHS tests Global Entry program (06/11/2008)The Homeland Security Department initiated pilot projects at three international airports this week to test its new Global Entry program for pre-registered U.S. citizens and permanent residents returning from travel abroad. Global Entry is an international registered traveler program in which passengers apply in advance to undergo screening. Once enrolled, they ... (read more of this article)
DHS enterprise network making headway, official says (06/10/2008) A senior official said Customs and Border Protection's effort to integrate the Homeland Security Department agencies' networks into a single network is about two-thirds complete. The OneNet network-integration project is in a transition phase that entails getting DHS agencies to use a common data-carrying mechanism and bring the sites under the control and oversight of DHS’ Network Operations Center and ... (read more of this article)
May 2008:
Disconnecting the Battle of Ideas from the Battle of Arms (05/11/2008) It is tempting to imagine that the ranks of terrorist organizations are uniquely unified in their purpose and means. By definition, extremists are ... (read more of this article)
FAZD - Wall Street Detectives and Texas A&M Offer New Equine DNA CODIS (05/19/2008) This proven low-cost tool of identification brings justice and safety to the Horse and is based upon the same process as the FBI's own CODIS crime laboratory. The CODIS system (Combined DNA Information Systems) enables crime-fighters nationally and internationally to compare DNA... (read more of this article)
Texas coalition sues to stop construction of border fence (05/17/2008) A group of Texas cities and business groups has sued the Department of Homeland Security to stop the construction of a fence along the border with Mexico. The Texas Border Coalition, which... (read more of this article)
April 2008:
MSI - More minority-serving institutions are competing for and winning Homeland Security Department funding (04/02/2008) When historically Black colleges search for federal funding, they usually start with the U.S. Department of Education. But if new developments are any indication, they may want to keep their eye on the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
That department has just awarded funds to three HBCUs and one Hispanic-serving institution to serve as special centers of excellence on homeland security topics. From immigration to transportation to the challenge posed by natural disasters, minority- serving institutions are gaining an important foothold in the sometimes overlooked but still essential task of providing education and technical assistance ... (read more of this article)
CAMRA - EPA and DHS to Co-host Conference to Address High Priority Technical Challenges for Assessing Risk Exposure (04/03/2008) (Washington, D.C. – April 3, 2008) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are teaming up to hold a three-dayconference to address the real-world applications, technical challenges and solutions for conducting microbiological risk assessments... (read more of this article)
START - How to defuse a human bomb (04/13/2008) SAUDI ARABIA IS one of the last places on earth one would expect to find an art therapy course for convicted terrorists. The kingdom, after all, is known for an unforgiving approach to criminal ... (read more of this article)
US scraps $20 million prototype of virtual fence (04/23/2008) By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal ... (read more of this article)
DHS Proposes Biometric Airport and Seaport Exit Procedures (04/22/2008) Collection of Alien Biometric Data upon Exit from the United States at Air and Sea Points of Departure; US-VISIT Program The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today a notice of proposed rulemaking that will establish biometric exit procedures at all U.S air and sea ports of departure. The majority of non-U.S. Citizens and non-permanent residents except for Canadians are already required to submit digital fingerprints and a digital photograph for admission into the country.* The US-VISIT Exit proposal would require non-U.S. citizens who provide biometric identifiers for admission to also provide digital fingerprints when ... (read more of this article)
March 2008:
New Centers Announced - Homeland Security Centers of Excellence (03/06/2008)
The Homeland Security Centers of Excellence (HS-Centers) bring together leading experts and researchers to conduct multidisciplinary research and education for homeland security solutions.
The centers are authorized by Congress and chosen by the Department's Science & Technology Directorate through a competitive selection process. Each center is led by a university in collaboration with partners from... (read more of this article)
Creating the Future of Homeland Security Through Partnering and Education (03/26/2008)
Last week more than 500 people from government, academia and the policy sector came together at the Second DHS University Network Summit to discuss what Jay Cohen, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate, recognizes as the need to educate a new group of scientists and business managers who are educated to create the products, methods and systems to more effectively... (read more of this article)
COE's - Terror U: What's behind the boom in homeland-security and emergency-management majors? (03/28/2008)
The traditionally slow-moving education industry is churning out a slew of students with specialties in "mass catastrophe" and "international disaster." More than 200 colleges have created homeland-security degree and certificate programs since 9/11, and another 144 have added emergency management with ... (read more of this article)
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