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 Local Government Resources Are National Assets in a DisasterBy Ken Parker
Published 8/20/2008summary -Ken Parker, City Manager of Port Orange, FL, describes local emergency response practices, shows how informal interstate assistance led to formal Emergency Management Assistance Compacts, and discusses the National Emergency Management Network.
 Strengthening the Nonprofit Community's Response to the National Capital Region's Next DisasterBy Multiple authors
Published 7/1/2008summary -When disaster strikes the National Capital Region, the success of the response depends largely on the ability of the organizations and the people of these jurisdictions to coordinate their efforts and resources. They rely in turn on an extensive array of nonprofit organizations to deliver critical services. Yet until fairly recently, not much had been done to help the region's nonprofits improve their preparedness, either as individual organizations or as a community. With a unique corporate-nonprofit partnership taking shape, the situation is beginning to change.
Soft Systems Methodology Applied to Systematic Screening at U.S. AirportsBy Multiple authors
Published 6/3/2008summary -Philip R. Hammar, Brian Sauser, and John Boardman apply soft systems methodology to the problem of passenger screening at airport checkpoints, using systemigrams to represent the relationships between the stakeholders in providing security and value to the commercial air transportation system.
The Changing Role of Physicians in Disaster Management and Hospital Incident CommandBy Multiple authors
Published 5/13/2008summary -The multidisciplinary position of medical/technical specialist for disaster medicine and hospital incident command will assist the incident commander in disaster-related decision making. Multiple functions of this position will increasingly be performed by physicians who are expert in the field. As physician training and certification in disaster medicine develop, physicians will become increasingly responsible for hospital disaster response.
Gastrointestinal Anthrax: The ThreatBy Multiple Authors
Published 5/1/2008summary -The United States has not thoroughly considered the possibility of gastrointestinal anthrax (versus inhalational or cutaneous anthrax) as a terrorist weapon and needs to research and prepare a defense against it.
Risk-Based Strategies for Allocating Resources in a Constrained EnvironmentBy Multiple Authors
Published 3/14/2008 11:57:00 AMsummary -In an environment where resources are decreasing as operation tempo increases, a risk-based
evaluation is required to defend budgets and provide necessary resources to the
Navy warfighter. The model described in this article allows decision makers to plan
future budgets after carefully considering the threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences of
an incident, with a focus on the organization's antiterrorism capabilities.
 Immigration Posses: U.S. Immigration Law and Local Enforcement PracticesBy Kevin Fandl
Published 2/19/2008summary -Many state and local law enforcement agencies and policymakers are advocating, and often enacting, legislation intended to reduce the number of illegal immigrants in their county or state. However, immigration law is federal law, and enforcement of such laws is entrusted to federal agencies. Have local authorities overstepped their bounds, or are they acting reasonably in light of federal inability to pass comprehensive immigration reform?
 A Networked Approach to Improvements in Emergency ManagementBy Robert O'Neill
Published 2/6/2008summary -O'Neill describes why changes are needed and offers specific recommendations for improvements in our intergovernmental system. Building on lessons learned from recent disaster experiences, he lays out an ambitious new approach based on a network of partnerships among cities and counties and supported by state governments and a sophisticated database.
 Technology-Independent Metrics That Bound the Special Nuclear Material Detection ProblemBy Robert A. August
Published 1/7/2008summary -August seeks to derive very simple boundary conditions to the problem of detecting special nuclear material in a real-world environment, expecting that such boundary conditions will serve as guides to investment.
 Establishing a Comprehensive Antifraud Plan for FEMABy Quin Lucie
Published 12/12/2007summary -In "Establishing a Comprehensive Antifraud Plan for FEMA," Quin Lucie argues that FEMA has no scalable, integrated plan to combat fraudulent disaster assistance claims and the external misuse, waste, and abuse of its property during disaster operations and while providing assistance. Reductions in the fraudulent and improper payments under just the Individual Assistance Program for a disaster the size of Hurricane Katrina (approximately 2.5 million applications for individual assistance) could save FEMA and U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Problem of Errors, DHS, and the "False Positive" StandardBy Multiple authors
Published 10/24/2007summary -James Giermanski and Peter Lodge of Belmont Abbey College discuss the problem of false positives in shipping container scanning.
Is the United States Ready for Future Catastrophes?By Multiple authors
Published 9/4/2007summary -This article addresses the effectiveness of emergency organizations in the United States to respond to catastrophes since the events of 9/11. A theoretical model is suggested that investigates the influence of a set of interorganizational and intra-organizational factors on organizational responsiveness. The results of a web-based survey show, first, that the interorganizational model is a powerful predictor of organizational responsiveness to disasters and, second, that work politics in the organization is the most important cultural predictor thereof. In view of these findings, emergency organizations in the United States need to focus on establishing ways of working with one another but also on fostering a sound internal work climate.
Understanding and Defending Against Foreign Cyber-ThreatsBy Peter Allor
Published 8/30/2007summary -The private sector is working in concert with branches of the federal government to develop new defenses against foreign-borne cyber-attacks designed to either cripple our mission-critical systems or steal from our private citizens. These threats may vary in their end goal, but whether financially or politically motivated, all cyber-crime requires a coordinated, vigilant, preventive effort by the private sector. However, to implement defenses against these types of attacks, we must understand the current landscape and the motivations of these cyber-terrorists and criminals.
Developing Homeland Security Partnerships: A Comparative Analysis From the Area of Financial SecurityBy Amit Kumar
Published 8/17/2007summary -Amit Kumar examines the evolution, development, and maintenance of three forms of partnerships in the banking and finance critical infrastructure protection area of homeland security to analyze the role of the government in partnership development, to explore the information-sharing processes across partnerships, and to delineate the dynamics of accountability mechanisms.
Securing Collegiate Sport Stadiums in the 21st Century: Think Security, Enhance SafetyBy Multiple Authors
Published 8/7/2007summary -Collegiate sport programs must take the lead and realize the risk that exists today. Their athletic facilities may be considered soft targets, since they are not as nationally recognized as professional sport stadiums.
New Body Scanner Protects Travelers' Safety (and Their Dignity)By Suzanne Finch
Published 8/1/2007summary -Suzanne Finch of the Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology discusses EMIT Technologies non-intrusive full-body security scanner People Portal II.
A Working Group Consensus Statement on Mass-Fatality Planning for Pandemics and DisastersBy Elin Gursky
Published 7/6/2007summary -Elin Gursky, on behalf of the Joint Task Force Civil Support Mass Fatality Working Group, presents the results of a two-day working group conference in March 2006 at the Joint Task Force Civil Support headquarters. Participants were senior civilian and military experts representing the broad range of professions within the fatality management community. Experts agreed that mass-fatality planning and preparation must occur against a national set of uniform procedures and strategies. The consensus working group supported instituting a separate Emergency Support Function within the National Response Plan to comprehensively plan for and respond to mass-fatality events.
Determining Risk Assessment Using the Weighted Ordinal Agreement MeasureBy William J. Tastle
Published 6/28/2007 1:15:00 PMsummary -The information-theoretic measures of consensus, dissent, and agreement are used to address the problem of assigning a threat level based on expert opinions. The use of weights, applied to both the experts and their opinion, is examined. All three measures are bounded, taking values in the unit interval. The measure of consensus is interpreted as an indicator of cohesion and concentration. The agreement measures how close the data are to a target. The agreement of experts for each targeted threat level can be calculated, and the threat level with the highest agreement value is the one chosen to represent the expert's judgment.
 Home-Grown Nihilism: The Clash Within CivilizationsBy Bill Durodié
Published 5/3/2007summary -In “Home-Grown Nihilism: The Clash Within Civilizations,” Bill Durodié of Cranfield University discusses what produces home-grown terrorists in Britain: Islamist radicalization or a nihilism bred by society?
 Satellite Control and the Future of Container SecurityBy Jim Giermanski
Published 4/20/2007summary -In “Satellite Control and the Future of Container Security,” Jim Giermanski, Ed.D., Professor and director of the Centre for Global Commerce at Belmont Abbey College, as well as chairman of the board of Powers International, Inc., discusses the role of satellites in container security as well as the shortcomings of radio-frequency identification as a container security
A Battle at the Border: Coping with Carrizo CaneBy Gail Cleere
Published 4/3/2007summary -In “A Battle at the Border: Coping with Carrizo Cane,” Gail Cleere of the Homeland Security Department’s Science & Technology Directorate discusses ways to reduce the cover provided by Carrizon cane (a foreign plant) along the U.S.-Mexican border.
 Identity and Security: Moving Beyond the 9/11 Staff Report on Identity Document SecurityBy Janice L. Kephart
Published 3/28/2007summary -In “Identity and Security: Moving Beyond the 9/11 Staff Report on Identity Document Security,” Janice L. Kephart, former counsel to the 9/11 Commission and president of 9/11 Security Solutions, LLC, discusses the policy backdrop for the legislation that creates minimum standards for state issuance of identity documents known as Real ID, the act’s content, and what is at risk if it fails.
Transportation Security: A Systems ApproachBy Theophilos Gemelas and Captain Mark Johnson, U.S. Coast Guard (ret.)
Published 3/1/2007summary -In “Transportation Security: A Systems Approach,” Theophilos C. Gemelas and Captain Mark Johnson, U.S. Coast Guard, argue that we must view the transportation network as an integrated system that incorporates resources, use of technology, utility of people, and appropriate policies and procedures to manage risk.
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