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By Victor Asal, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Rose Bellandi, Richard L. Legault, and Robert Tynes
Published 7/19/2011
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The authors look at organizational and environmental factors that make an organization more likely to target air travel.
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By DHS University Network Summit
Published 6/23/2011
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White papers from the DHS University Network Summit on "Catastrophes and Complex Systems: Transportation," March 30-April 1, 2011
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By Sushant Deb and Igor Livits
Published 11/12/2010
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In the airport safety assurance industry, technology is only one layer of security, and human factors of safety and security must not be overlooked or compromised. Overreliance on technology is a trap that leaves passengers, aircrews, and airport personnel vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
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By Brent L. Sterling
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Sterling examines case studies of instances in which a nation, facing a menu of prospective choices for securing a frontier, chose to build a strategic barrier. He then examines the subsequent implementation of this decision and its impact, says reviewer Scott Savitz, Ph.D., senior analyst, Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute.
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By Allan McDougall and Robert Radvanovsky
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In Transportation Systems Security, the authors attempt to present the “strategic, operational, and practical considerations involved in the implementation of physical, procedural, and managerial safeguards required to keep all modes of transportation up and running during an actual or potential disaster.” Analytic Services senior editor Steve Dunham reviews the book.
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By James E. McGinley
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In Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy, Tamara Cofman Wittes challenges the failure of the Bush administration to advance its democracy agenda and the inability of incumbent Arab states to accommodate the rising needs and aspirations of their citizens. At stake is world stability in the face of an unsustainable status quo and seismic forces of social change. James E. McGinley reviews the book.
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Articles last updated 7/19/2011
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Book Reviews last updated 8/20/2010
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By Greg Oslan
Published 11/12/2010
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The electric grid, the water supply, the air traffic systems, most financial transactions, and the very essence of our communications via texting, emailing, and voice all rely on the Internet. A sustained, well-coordinated attack or set of attacks on one or more of these valued assets close in time to one another would be an unfortunate wakeup call. These complex problems won't be solved by technology alone. Ultimately, they are issues that we'll need to address with a combination of technology, people in our workforce trained in this unique skill set, smart legislation, foreign policy, and partnerships between the public and private sectors.
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By Robert A. Young
Published 8/4/2010
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Evidence-based management—the application of tested, measurable guidelines to execute plans key to achieving program management goals—reduces variations in execution, instead standardizing the practices (as documented by evidence) and, when transformed into guidelines, in turn improves the quality of program management effort.
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By Amitai Etzioni
Published 2/9/2010
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Our coastlines are wide open.
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7/17/2008
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The journal interviews Elaine C. Duke, Homeland Security Deputy Under Secretary for Management, about the Homeland Security Department’s plans for the transition to a new presidential administration.
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10/16/2006
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The journal interviews Admiral Thad Allen, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, who discusses the challenges facing the Coast Guard today.
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5/24/2006
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Quartel discusses the Dubai Ports World sale, cargo security, and international trade.
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Commentaries last updated 11/12/2010
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Interviews last updated 7/17/2008
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