Maritime Security 2013 East, held April 15-17 in St. Petersburg, Fla., took for its theme “technologies and strategies to mitigate security threats in the maritime domain.” The maritime security conference …
In the nation’s capital and around the United States, it’s a safe bet that debate soon will be heating up about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – most people call them …
Over 30 years ago while working at Rockwell International’s Space Division in Downey, Calif., I wrote a briefing book for members of Congress about space program benefits. The book’s section …
Look, up in the sky … It’s a bird! It’s a plane. It’s a … drone?
While those are not words we are ultimately familiar with, they are words we …
Homeland security was on everyone’s mind three years ago when officials in Hawaii purchased a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), more commonly called a drone, as a high-tech law enforcement …
When al Qaeda flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon, there was no such thing as a “homeland security professional.” Years later, when the Department of …
In the ongoing effort to secure the United States against all threats, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies have pursued various initiatives to strengthen America’s security and …
In its everyday operations, the term “biometrics” still has a fairly simple meaning for the federal border protection workforce: It means fingerprints and photographs. The immigration and border management system …
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole announced Feb. 8 the expansion of TSA Pre√™, a passenger prescreening program, to additional …
In June 2011, for the first time, experts from the world’s two leading nuclear powers released a joint report on the global threat of nuclear terrorism. The report, titled “The …
