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Promoting Dual-Benefit Solutions
The Homeland Security Institute pursues a research
agenda that focuses on “dual-benefit solutions”—those
that enhance the security of our nation while advancing some
other public good. As part of our effort to build the intellectual
framework for homeland security in the global community, the
Institute has a weekly section of the newsletter to highlight
solutions that promote the idea of dual benefit. We invite
readers to email the Homeland Security Institute with news
about dual-benefit solutions. If you or your organization
are working on dual-benefit security issues, send us an email
and we may include them in an upcoming issue. [Email the Institute]
Federal
German Border Guards Employ High-Tech Command and Control
(Government
Technology) “Federal German Border Guards, responsible
for providing public safety at airports, railways, federal
borderlines to other countries, and on the high seas, has
successfully deployed 15 of 24 sites throughout the country
with Intergraph Public Safety’s Command and Control system,”
according to Government Technology. “The nine
remaining sites will be phased in and deployed by end-of-year
2006. Intergraph will implement its computer aided dispatch
(CAD) and automatic vehicle location (AVL) solution, enabling
the German Border Guards to more efficiently use their staff
and vehicles. The CAD digital map will assist officers in
performing more effective manhunts; shorten police response
times; and alert units and additional staff without any loss
of time and information. On final phased-implementation, the
total 24 sites will include 350 CAD seats and 1000 AVL-equipped
vehicles.” [View
article]
Course
Teaches Campus Security (Yale
[Univ.] Daily News) “Like it or not, campus
police need to know how to respond to even the most severe
threats,” reports the Yale Daily News. “…
The National Center for Biomedical Research & Training
at Louisiana State University developed a course a year and
half ago that teaches campuses across the United States how
to respond to attacks using weapons of mass destruction.…
The course, which is being funded by federal grants awarded
by the Office of Domestic Preparedness, a division of the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, intends to formally
familiarize all campus public safety personnel with the types
of weapons of mass destruction and how to best respond to
them.” Additionally, the course familiarizes campus security
with city police departments and other accessible agencies
because campus security does not always have the resources
it needs to learn how to coordinate and contact resources
provided on a federal level. [View
article]
DHS
Helps Small Communities Get High-Tech Equipment (Federal
Computer Week) “Homeland Security Department
officials launched a test program [on 22 March]
to help smaller communities get commercially available cutting-edge
technology to better handle terrorist threats,” reports
Federal Computer Week. “Through the Commercial
Equipment Direct Assistance Program (CEDAP), the Office of
State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness will
provide equipment and technical assistance to selected jurisdictions
in accordance with their state’s homeland security strategies.
Under the program, first responders could receive a variety
of technologies, including detection equipment for biological
and chemical agents, night vision and thermal imaging devices,
protective equipment, information-sharing and search software,
analysis software and interoperable communications devices.”
[View
article]
Arlington,
VA, Cited for Innovative Emergency Management (Government
Technology) “Arlington’s emergency management
program is one of the nation’s top 50 ‘most creative,
forward thinking, results-driven government programs,’
according to Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
…” reports Government Technology.
“‘Arlington has created a cross-disciplinary approach
to homeland security, combining police, fire/[emergency medical
services], public health, 911-communications, Red Cross, and
citizens to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters
and terrorist events,’ according to [the] Innovations
in American Government Awards.” [View
article]
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