By Randall DeGering – Executive Summary – Since 1958, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has a proven history of adapting and evolving to meet changing military defense challenges using new technology—from its early years providing ground-based radar warning of […]
The Role of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Military Cyber Attack Warning →
By Steven Dubay – Executive Summary – Citizens and many local firefighters poorly understand the use of aircraft for wildfire suppression. There is a basic lack of knowledge because wildfires in general and the use of aircraft for fire suppression
Improving Access To Military Aircraft During Civilian Wildfires →
By Eric Saylors – Executive Summary – How do agencies that prevent or mitigate disasters communicate their value? How do they justify their budgets? If one were to do a “return on investment” (ROI) study on homeland security departments, what
Quantifying the Negative: How Homeland Security Adds Value →
By Maggie DeBoard – Executive Summary – Each year, more than 100 law enforcement officers are killed on the job in training accidents, operations, and emergency response.[1] Fatalities, however, tell only part of the story. Although accurate statistics for police
By Jerry Davis – Executive Summary – Throughout the existence of man, there have been creations that have intertwined themselves in every facet of the human experience. Those that immediately come to mind and have evolved over centuries to the
Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: A Law Enforcement Primer →
By Randy Brawley – Executive Summary – By all accounts, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was not prepared for the overwhelming nature and catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina. Despite the lessons learned in Katrina, when Hurricane Sandy struck, only 47%
Serious Games in FEMA Regional Response Coordination Center Training and Exercises →
By Jacob Anderson – Executive Summary – Each of us is all the sums he has not counted…the seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock —Thomas Wolfe[1] The
Risk Unbound: Threat, Catastrophe, and the End of Homeland Security →
By Bijan Karimi – Executive Summary – The relationship between homeland and economic security sounds so casual in the 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. It states, “Homeland security supports economic security.”[1] So it is surprising that this connection is embraced
By Shawn Tupper – Executive Summary – In 2007, Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act, directing all government agencies to reduce their buildings’ energy levels by 30 percent by 2015.[1] Accordingly, the General Services Administration (GSA), responsible for
Building Automation System Cyber Networks: An Unmitigated Risk to Federal Facilities →
By Antonio Sajor – Executive Summary – Independent oversight boards of law enforcement misconduct investigations are often asked to make the complaint process more inclusive by providing mechanisms and locations outside of law enforcement facilities to accept complaints and provide
Ideal Police Oversight and Review: The Next Piece of the Community Policing Puzzle →
