The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lacks a coherent historical record. Often this results in the agency repeating the mistakes of its past.
By H. Quinton Lucie
3-D printer technology will have negative consequences in the form of weapons that cannot be traced, illicit drug manufacture, sabotage, and intellectual property theft.
By Jonathan Percy
Today’s expanding disaster landscape demands crisis managers to configure their organizations to handle a wider range of extreme events. This requires more varied capabilities, capacity and delivery of services.
By Joseph W. Pfeifer and Ophelia Roman
Tiered Response Pyramid: A System-Wide Approach to Build Response Capability and Surge Capacity →
In a recent quantitative analysis of the past 40 years of terrorist activity in New York City, the FDNY’s Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness identified several trends in terrorist activity that may have value to future policy formation, both in New York City and in similar municipalities elsewhere.
By Matthew Quinn
A History of Violence: A Quantitative Analysis of the History of Terrorism in New York City →
We expand on the application of quantifiable deterrence to critical infrastructure/key resource protection by considering cognitive biases. These biases include what we call “information obfuscation bias” and “prospect bias.”
By Eric F. Taquechel and Ted G. Lewis
This essay presents the key findings of a systematic analysis of U.S. court records about SIA smuggling, as derived from 19 known prosecutions and a variety of other data between 2001 and 2015.
By Todd Bensman
The Department of Homeland Security holds the statutory mission to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure which is composed of nationally significant systems and assets. The loss of this infrastructure would result in debilitating consequences to the safety and security of the United States.
By David Riedman
Questioning the Criticality of Critical Infrastructure: A Case Study Analysis →
This analysis refines the analytical (EHN) framework into seven components (Elements, Outside Forces, Complex Systems, Outcomes, Analysis, Reimagination, and Transformation), summarizes its initial application, and tests the validity of its application to another homeland security issue.
By Bijan Karimi
Applying the Economic, Homeland and National Security Analysis Framework →
For more than fifty years, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has been responsible for conducting aerospace warning and control missions for the defense of North America. In accomplishing those operations, Commander NORAD is responsible for making the official warning to both the president of the United States and the prime minister of Canada if North America is suddenly under aerospace attack.
By Randall DeGering
What is NORAD’s Role in Military Cyber Attack Warning? →
How can a pandemic like SARS be halted in the modern age of air travel? This article argues that the classical mathematical models of epidemics are inadequate for describing the impact of air travel on the spread of contagions like SARS.
By Ted G. Lewis
Halting Global Pandemics via the Commercial Air Route Network →
