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For detailed information, visit www.saic.com/radar Energy I Environment I National Security I Health I Critical Infrastructure © 2009 Science Applications International Corporation. All rights reser ved.2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=5http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=5EDITOR’S LETTER Taking stock at 100 days THE END OF THIS MONTH WILL MARK THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. (THE EXACT DATE OF THIS MILESTONE DEPENDS ON WHETHER YOU COUNT INAUGURATION DAY, JAN. 20, AS A FULL WORKING DAY, WHICH I DO—SO APRIL 29 MARKS THE MOMENT. BUT IF YOU WANT TO GIVE HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, YOU CAN EXTEND IT A DAY.) As a focused, non-partisan publication, dissection of the administration’s overall actions is beyond our scope; we’ll leave that commentary to others. We, however, are concerned with the state of homeland security and the department that bears its name, and here the first 100 days merit serious consideration, even if this is written well before the period is finished. Let’s say it up front: Secretary Janet Napolitano’s brisk, efficient and energetic tenure to date has been very impressive. She came to the department after six years of observing it as a governor and so approached it with a clear agenda and wellformulated ideas. On taking office, she requested sensible reviews and appears to be acting sensibly on their results. She wasted no time in any of this; it started the minute she was sworn in. This is in stark contrast to the Second Stage Review (2SR) of 2005, which began when Michael Chertoff took office on Feb. 15 and wasn’t completed until five months after it was initiated. In fairness, Chertoff’s 2SR was concerned with the fundamental structure and missions of the department. Napolitano inherited a department that experts and many legislators said was organizationally sound and shouldn’t be altered, with the sole exception being the debatable fate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She started her race further down the track than Chertoff. That said, she certainly seems to have gotten off to a faster start. how real that threat is and how it’s an ongoing threat,” King said. However, Napolitano did something in that testimony that had long been missing from the national dialogue since Sept. 11, 2001: She clearly and succinctly defined “homeland security” and the department’s mission to give it its proper breadth. “At its core, I believe DHS has a straightforward mission,” Napolitano said, “to protect the American people from threats both foreign and domestic, both natural and manmade—to do all that we can to prevent threats from materializing, respond to them if they do and recover with resiliency.” And, she added, “…terrorism, Mr. King, I believe falls into that category [manmade] and is central to the category.” Napolitano was absolutely right. Her testimony was fair, balanced and comprehensive, encompassing all the hazards for which DHS has responsibility. Having put terrorism in its proper context, Napolitano should take the next step: put normalcy in its proper context within the terrorism color code and drop our state of alert to “blue” or “guarded.” There are currently advocates of scrapping the color code altogether as a discredited relic of the Bush administration. However, these people overlook the utility of a simple, easily recognizable state of alert that can be communicated instantly to every first responder and security official. As former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge put it, neither he, nor Attorney General John Ashcroft, nor Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller wanted to draw straws every time they had to alert the American public. The problem was not the notion of a code itself but its overly broad application in the days following 9/11 and then the suspicion that it was being used for political purposes (something that Napolitano specifically eschewed in her testimony on Capitol Hill). Further, under the Bush BY DAVID SILVERBERG NAPOLITANO CAN GO A LONG WAY TOWARD ASSURING THE PUBLIC AND SETTING A NEW TONE WITHOUT FOSTERING COMPLACENCY BY SIMPLY DROPPING “NORMAL” A NOTCH. administration the code got stuck on “yellow” or “elevated” as the normal state of affairs. That may have accurately reflected the state of mind of the Bush a2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=6http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=6UPDATES & RESPONSES DEA Cites Homeland Security Today in Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Testifying at a March 17 combined hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, Anthony Placido, intelligence chief for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), cited Homeland Security Today's coverage of the crisis in Mexico to convey to lawmakers the gravity of the situation there. The violence, said Placido, "has caused some, including Homeland Security [Today] magazine, to speculate about the likelihood of Mexico failing in its efforts. And, for our purposes, and by extension, created a discussion about whether the violence would spill over our southwest border at increased levels and with adverse consequences to US interests." MANUEL BALCE CENETA / AP PHOTO HSToday PHONE: ™ P.O. Box 9789, McLean, Va. 22101-3611 800-503-6506 FAX: 866-503-5758 WWW.HSToday.US The article cited by Placido, "Could Mexico Fail?" was the second part of a three-part investigative series on the brutal violence in Mexico by veteran counterterror analyst Brian Michael Jenkins. The other articles examined the situation on the border and the politics of the Mexican government's war with the narco-cartels. The Senate hearing examined the overall situation on the border along with US efforts to contain it, with testimony from the Arizona attorney general and officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Customs and Border Protection in addition to DEA. The entire hearing can be viewed by going to the link at www.HSToday.us. PUBLISHER Kimberley S. Hanson-Brown PHONE: 800-503-6506 khanson@HSToday.us EDITOR David Silverberg PHONE: 703-757-0520 editor@HSToday.US SENIOR REPORTER Anthony Kimery akimery@HSToday.us BUSINESS EDITOR Philip Leggiere Business@HSToday.us WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS Mickey McCarter Kelley Vlahos REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS NORTH AMERICA Chuck Hustmyre—New Orleans Jeff O’Neill—Boston Jana Schroeder—Mexico City Michael Peltier—Tallahassee WR Stephens—Toronto Liza Porteus Viana—New York EUROPE Matt Baglio—Rome Raffaello Pantucci—London COLUMNISTS Philip Finnegan Michael Paddock GEORGE ARMSTRONG/FEMA Fugate, Kayyem nominated for top DHS posts Craig Fugate, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management was nominated as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on March 4. (Fugate shared some of his lessons learned from past hurricane seasons with Homeland Security Today Tallahassee Correspondent Michael Peltier in the June 2006 article “Securing the Sunshine State.” He will be the subject of a feature in the upcoming June issue covering the 2009 hurricane season.) Fugate assumed the state directorship in 2001 after serving 10 years as the emergency manager for Florida’s Alachua County. He began his career as a volunteer firefighter and then Craig Fugate rose to paramedic and lieutenant in the county’s fire department. As state director for eight years under two governors, Fugate oversaw 23 declared state emergencies, 11 of which were presidential declared disasters. Juliette Kayyem, Massachusetts’ first under secretary for homeland security, was appointed assistant secretary for intergovernmental programs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on March 5. (Kayyem was profiled in the article, “Kayyem conducts a responder revolution” in the January “Responders Today” column.) As head of the Office of Intergovernmental Programs (IGP), Kayyem is assigned to develop a process to revitalize the department’s working relationship with state, local, tribal and territorial governments. IGP’s mission is to promote an integrated national approach to homeland security by coordinating federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government activities. 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With the creation of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003, changes were made to improve the systems and procedures involved in background checks of individuals seeking residence and US citizenship. Part of this change included a more thorough search of national security and law enforcement information provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) name check process. More intense scrutiny required additional time and an increase in interagency efforts to keep up with a continually expanding caseload. During the next three years, application backlogs grew larger. As a result, individuals faced longer wait times before clearing the FBI name check process and qualifying for immigration benefits. The situation became untenable during 2007, following an unprecedented surge in applications for both citizenship and adjustment of status. within 90 days. We will achieve and sustain these processing time goals no later than June 2009. The revised NNCP fee, which covers the full cost of service, will allow NNCP to maintain staff levels, continuing this shortest-ever processing time. It will also allow USCIS to meet agency goals of reducing adjudication times without compromising security. During the past 15 months, USCIS has seen the total number of requests pending at the NNCP decline from a high of HE SUCCESSES ACHIEVED ARE A TESTAMENT TO THE ACHIEVEMENTS 350,000 in November 2007 to fewer than 3,260 in midPOSSIBLE WHEN INTERAGENCY RESOURCES ARE FOCUSED TOWARD January 2009. During August 2007, more than 32,000 COMMON, CLEARLY DEFINED requests were pending GOALS. longer than 33 months, but as of mid-January 2009, only tions. A rigorous quality assurance program 17 name check requests were pending was established to ensure sensitive informalonger than three months. The backlog, tion wasn’t missed through the use of the defined as requests pending longer than six more focused search criteria. Additional months, has effectively been eliminated. training was also provided to new hires at This dramatic progress has meant that the NNCP concerning the types of informa- USCIS could complete adjudication of tion USCIS adjudicators require for their record numbers of naturalization cases in decisions. 2008. A core ingredient of this success story is Results the close partnership that USCIS and the Thanks to the actions taken by USCIS and FBI have fostered through frequent and the FBI, both collectively and independ- open communications between our agenently, we’ve seen extraordinary gains. We’ve cies’ leaders. Both agencies have focused met every goal set forth in the NNCP busion the most effective solutions to the ness plan. In November 2008, the NNCP immense challenges faced and have met its milestone target of processing all demonstrated mutual respect and support name checks pending for more than one for the other’s requirements and areas of year. Just two months ago, we completed all expertise. The successes achieved are a tesrequests pending more than six months. tament to the achievements possible when Ultimately, our goal is to complete 98 interagency resources are focused toward percent of all name checks within 30 days common, clearly defined goals. HST of submission. USCIS and the FBI intend to GREGORY SMITH is the associate director for US Citizenresolve the remaining 2 percent, which repship and Immigration Services, National Security and Records Verification Directorate. resent the most difficult name checks, million to the NNCP during FY 2007 and FY 2008 to support backlog elimination efforts. 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Of course, there are pros and cons to each method of distribution, and for better or worse, first responders across the country have experienced them. Purely population-based allocations don’t take into account the increased threats associated with such regional nuances as shipping centers, national monuments and other special circumstances that are likely to make a project more or less impactful. The competitive approach requires a high level of organization and planning to ensure the review process is meaningful and pushes funding out to the most needed projects— a feat which was not achieved to any significant degree during the past two years’ “quasi-competitive” grant rounds. Instead, awards in the more competitive environment look remarkably like the awards allocated in this year’s noncompetitive HSGP cycle. The combined approach of 2009 has the potential to encompass both types of problems. If DHS has the capacity to evaluate the potential effectiveness of a project, based on a set of objective criteria, to concentrate funds on projects that address a significant need or could produce significant results in advancing progress toward the National Preparedness Guidelines, why not distribute all the funding that way? Admittedly, part of the issue is the sheer size of the program. Whenever any grant program rises to the $750 million level or so, it tends to get pushed out through the states to ensure that everyone gets a piece of the funding. If most of the states aren’t at least somewhat represented in the awards, they will complain—and rightly so, because some of the money for the program has come from them. funded, rather than those who could benefit most and maximize the impact of the funding. A standard, predictable procedure is needed, followed all the way to the local distribution of funds, where the statute requires the funds go anyway. Transparency If you ask a citizen of a state where homeland security funds went, he might point you to the state’s homeland security website. However, there is no standardization in the way states communicate that information to their citizens (many are still showing information from 2004), and the federal process for tracking and reporting sub awards is moving at a glacial pace. It should be clear who received awards and for what purposes. For the sake of security, of course, some of the details may be redacted. HENEVER ANY GRANT W PROGRAM RISES TO THE $750 MILLION LEVEL OR SO, IT TENDS TO GET PUSHED OUT THROUGH THE STATES TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE GETS A PIECE OF THE FUNDING. But it is possible to manage a large program in an open, competitive environment with clear evaluative criteria and still ensure equitable distribution of the funds. It’s being modeled from within DHS in the form of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFGP). 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AFTER FIREFIGHTERS INITIALLY THOUGHT THEY HAD IT UNDER CONTROL, FLAMES BURST THROUGH THE ROOF , AND EXPLOSIONS AND WALLS TUMBLING COULD BE HEARD OUTSIDE. The firefighters inside were evacuated, but not before two city firefighters who were part of the first hose team to arrive— 40-year-old Victor Isler and 19-year-old Justin Monroe—were killed. One of the fallen men died at the scene and was draped with an American flag as he was loaded into the ambulance. Other firefighters removed their helmets as they stood solemnly by outside the burning building. The scene above is every fire chief’s nightmare, Larry Efferson, former chief of safety for the Baton Rouge, La., Fire Department, told Homeland Security Today. “As a fire commander,” Efferson said, “I AP PHOTO/SALISBURY POST, JON C. 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This process, according to Captain Pete Gomez of the Miami Fire Department, often proved so cumbersome that neighborhoods were crucially understaffed during the early hours after a hurricane or other storm warning. “When you’re in a crisis mode, it’s a life and death matter to be able to line up resources quickly,” Gonzales explained. “Ten years ago, if you had a storm that took a surprise turn and hit an area hard, it might take you several hours to locate critically needed personnel, be they fire fighters, certified paramedics, EMS [emergency medical services] workers or ambulance drivers. You basically had to use a phone tree and line up volunteers one by one to see who was home and who was near enough to get on-site quickly. ” Using In Gov Alert, a new communication and notification system from San Diego, Calif.-based MIR3, the Miami Fire Department can now have responders in place in a fraction of the time, as well as automatically keep track of their emergency assets in real time. The system allows designated individuals to send a highspeed notification simultaneously to up to tens of thousands of users, delivered to each recipient’s primary communication device based on time of day and other factors. If a person doesn’t respond, the message is delivered to the recipient’s secondary device until a response is received. When received, the recipient can press one button to initiate actions, such as call into a conference line or indicate if he or she is available for immediate mobilization to an emergency site. “During Hurricane Ivan, we had 75 paramedics on call over a 90-mile zone,” Gonzales recalled. “We just put out a mass notification and said, ‘We need 25 paramedics within 90 minutes at X location and got instantaneous feedback. Once those 25 were identified, we were able to rapidly set up a conference call with all of them on the line simultaneously. Within an hour, they were all en route to where they were most needed. Using the white board feature of the system, every aspect of crisis communication was tracked, so we were all immediately aware where all our emergency personnel were and where any gaps were that hadn’t been addressed.” “In every subsequent emergency operation we’ve encountered,” Gonzales added, “we’ve dramatically improved response times. “You can never forget that communication bottlenecks can kill,” Gonzales observed. “Overcoming them is not only about achieving interoperable systems; it’s about overcoming the delays which have prevented the right information from getting shared by the right people to make the right decisions in time to save lives.” HST This month’s issue is now available online at… ALERT FM™ allows emergency managers to send critical information to targeted recipients like citizens, businesses and first responders in seconds. This personal alert and messaging system transmits messages using the data subcarrier of local FM stations. It’s Reliable. It’s Affordable. 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BUT IS THIS THE YEAR THE AGENCY STANDS ITS OLD REPUTATION ON ITS HEAD? “We’re trying to share some of the news about the steps we’ve taken to improve acquisition,” argued Rick Gunderson, acting chief procurement officer at DHS, in a January interview with Homeland Security Today. “There is some negative stigma out there. …Where we are today is much different than where we were in 2003.” The road, however, is littered with broken and abandoned programs and a lot of money that flew out of the coffers and into virtual money pits. The more infamous programs roll off the tongues of industry analysts: SBInet—Also known as The Secure Border Initiative Network, the massive IT project that was to serve in part as a “virtual fence” to protect the nation’s southern and northern borders was put on ice in September. It had been valued in the range of $6 billion and was the third in a line of aborted programs relating to border security. It replaced the Integrated Intelligence System and the America’s Shield Initiative. A December 2006 DHS Inspector General’s report, Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security (www.dhs.gov /xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_0712_Dec06.pdf), said SBInet was developed “without having laid the foundation to effectively oversee and assess contractor performance and effectively control cost and schedule.” The Integrated Deepwater System Program, or “Deepwater”—The 25-year, $24 billion Coast Guard modernization project is ongoing, but since its debut in 2002, it’s been the focus of investigations by the DHS Office of Inspector General, the Department of Justice, countless congressional hearings and a whistleblower drama. Eight patrol boats valued because of cost overruns and agency mismanagement. eMerge 2—The agency paid out $50 million to Bearing Point, McLean, Va., for a program that would have managed all of DHS’ financial assets, acquisitions and budgets. The project was terminated in 2005 because it was deemed unmanageable. The agency is now in the process of seeking bids for a similar but new program, Transformation and Systems Consolidation (TASC). CAPPS II—The $100 million Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System was initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and was immediately beset with developmental and privacy problems. Reviews of the program—which would use personal passenger information shared by multiple government agencies to determine the risk levels of passengers—found numerous planning and cost estimate shortcomings. It was scrapped in 2004, but has morphed into Secure Flight, which is supposed to be implemented sometime early this year. According to a November 2008 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress, Billions Invested in Major Programs Lack Appropriate Oversight (www.gao.gov/new.items/d0929.pdf), the lack of sufficient internal reviews throughout the life cycle of major DHS contracts— from the development of a proposal to the maintenance of the contract and overall program—is to blame for much of the $15 billion in investment failures since the agency’s inception in 2003. “Of 48 major investments requiring milestone or annual reviews, 45 were not reviewed in accordance with the department’s investment review policy and 18 were not reviewed at all,” charged the report. Four programs were transitioned into the late production phase with no review at all. “Poor production” could be placed in part at the feet of DHS’ two central review boards. The Investment Review Board (IRB) was set up to handle projects over $300 million (Level I). The Joint Requirements Council (J2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=17http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=17NEBRASKA AVENUE have dogged the process, but would have likely been flagged, tagged or at least rectified earlier with the proper reviews, say outside government acquisitions experts who spoke with Homeland Security Today. A lack of line authority and centralized contracting standards at Nebraska Avenue and its 22 component agencies and departments, insufficient foresight and focus— including proper budgeting and good program management—have served to poison the system. Add that to minimal resources—especially personnel—in the Office of Procurement Operations over the years, and you have a giant mess. “There was a stretch of time in which, if there was a DHS program, I would expect to see it fail,” said one contracting expert. In February: Ralph Basham announced his retirement as commissioner of CBP…DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano named Chani Wiggins as assistant secretary for legislative affairs and Nelson Peacock and Sue Ramanathan as deputy assistant secretaries for legislative affairs…John Morton was nominated to be assistant secretary for ICE…Esther Olavarria was named deputy assistant secretary for policy…Mary Ellen Callahan was named DHS chief privacy officer…Paul Schneider retired as DHS deputy secretary and was replaced by Rand Beers as acting deputy secretary pending the confirmation of Jane Holl Lute…Dora Schriro was appointed the secretary’s special advisor on ICE and detention and removal. there are lingering gaps and long-term needs, the department has instituted a critical training and internship program, creating a personnel feeder from where there was none. In addition, Gunderson said the department has established “a new governance framework which provides a disciplined process for our investments to go through before they can proceed.” The framework, which shifts much of the burden for reviewing the biggest projects out of the disparate procurement structures at the component level to the central office, institutes an Acquisition Review Board, replacing the responsibilities of the IRB and the JRC. In name, the JRC will live on with a different mission—making sure each major project over $300 million is validated and incorporates clear vision and requirements for its execution. In addition, the new Program Review Board ensures there is adequate cost estimation and budget for each major project. There are about 67 Level I and Level II programs across the department now, said Gunderson. At least 20 of them have been reviewed in compliance with the new reforms in the last eight months, he added. “Our end goal is every Level I and Level II program will be reviewed.” The reforms have not gone unnoticed, not even in the more recent GAO reports. “DHS is taking important steps to strengthen investment management and oversight,” said the November GAO report, though it was equally cautious. “Our work has found that DHS has not fully implemented similar steps in the past.” retary, respectively—were popular and wise decisions that had an almost immediate stabilizing effect, sources said. (Schneider stepped down as deputy secretary on Feb. 11 and his place was taken by Rand Beers as acting deputy secretary pending the confirmation of Jane Lute.) “They were the right people at the right time, and they [were] trying to impose the right levels of discipline,” said Jeff Greene, deputy director of legal affairs for the Project on National Security Reform. “It’s a great illustration of the importance of leadership,” added Bodenheimer. “They [DHS] are strategically looking at it the right way. I actually have high hopes,” said Stan Saloway, president of the Professional Services Council. “I think there is the potential for DHS … to take this to a whole new level.” However, Greene claims it’s not clear the department has sufficiently reduced the number of troublesome no-bid contracts (DHS spokespeople say the introduction of a competition advocate and other measures have steadily reduced such bids). Meanwhile, homeland security co2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=18http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=182009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=19http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=19AGENCY SPOTLIGHT Getting there from here BY HANK HOGAN, HSTODAY IT CORRESPONDENT TO UPDATE AN OLD PHRASE, THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) MAKES THE PLANES RUN ON TIME. IN ADDITION TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (FAA) OPERATING THE NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM, THE AGENCY ALSO IMPACTS THE TRAVEL OF TRAINS, CARS AND SHIPS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. WHAT’S MORE, IT OVERSEES THE MOVEMENT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND THE 64 PERCENT OF THE NATION’S ENERGY THAT IS TRANSPORTED THROUGH PIPELINES. However, there are other pipelines besides those that carry fuel to worry about. While DoT doesn’t control these data conduits, the agency has taken—and is taking— steps to ensure the security of its networks and the safety of US transportation. result of such measures, the availability of the configuration is said to be 99.9999 percent, with the number confirmed in part by monitoring the response when offline systems are brought back online. As for other FAA cybersecurity activities, Brown reported that plans call for implementing Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12, the smart card initiative, in a total access control fashion. Thus, the card will allow logical access not only to such things as e-mail and networks but also to needed applications. Brown noted that audits have shown e-mail access can linger long after an employee leaves, and so using a card to eliminate that can improve security. Furthermore, surveys have revealed that the average FAA employee has to remember 18 separate passwords. The card will cut that number down, reducing calls to the help desk and speeding up the enrollment of new employees. These benefits should be available when the HSPD-12 rollout is done. Brown said the goal is to select an implementer of the technology this year. NORTHROP GRUMMAN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION An unusual operation Another protection enhancement can be seen in DoT’s Cyber Security Management Center, which started off in 2002 as an incident and response group focused only on the FAA. It has grown from something that looked like it belonged in a college dorm room to a 15,000-square-foot facility, with 18 federal employees and 40-plus contractors. The response time for incident detection has dropped from hours to only a few minutes. “It’s a unique operation in that it takes a corporate approach to how this center is managed,” noted Brown. There’s a board, which is composed of the chief information officers and chief information security officers within the department. It meets quarterly to discuss policy, strategy and funding. The model may be working, as the center now contracts with the Department of Education to monitor its networks. Dan Mintz, a political appointee who left with the change in administration at the beginning of this year, sat on the center’s board when he was chief information officer for DoT. He said there had been dramatic improvement in the visibility and closing of incidents, partly as a result of the center. The center has helped cut down on the impact of the 3 million or so attempted intrusion and other events experienced by the DoT’s computer networks each month. However, there are other changes being made internally that will make the systems less vulnerable. Plans call for the deployment of a common operating environment, with centralized control of desktops. The use of an approved and controlled desktop core configuration should help lower vulnerability, as will ongoing, governmentwide efforts to reduce the number of connections to the Internet. In looking at the future, Mintz noted that standardization and other security efforts often focus on protection, which he said is only part of the challenge presented by intruders. “How do you find them when they get in, which is very difficult? Equally important, how do you make sure the critical systems run no matter what?” Because of the growing difficulty in achieving protection, there’ll be a change in the focus toward these oth2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=20http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=20HOMELAND SEC INDUSTRY NEWS Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office selects BI Inc. for offender electronic monitoring The Virginia Beach, Va., sheriff’s office has selected BI Inc., Boulder, Colo., a community corrections technology, treatment and supervision company, to supply offender monitoring equipment and services for sentenced inmates who are released to the department’s home electronic monitoring and work release programs. The two devices being used in Virginia Beach are BI ExacuTrack AT, an active global positioning system (GPS) tracking system that monitors offenders as they move about the community in near real time, maintaining curfews and schedules and confining individuals to certain areas and restricting them from others. The other is BI Sobrietor, a remote alcohol monitoring system that accurately measures sobriety by having offenders submit breath tests using a handheld device and transmitting results via phone lines. The sheriff expanded use of its electronic home monitoring and work release programs to help alleviate inmate overcrowding at the Virginia Beach Correctional Center. Under terms of a long-term agreement, BI provided active GPS tracking and alcohol compliance monitoring systems for inmates in both programs. (Source: BI Inc.) INDUSTRY ROSTER EMS Innovations named exclusive distributor of the PICS System EMS Innovations, Pasadena, Md., a provider of disaster mitigation products, medical supplies, personal protection, HAZMAT and response recovery products, has announced its exclusive distributorship of the Patient Isolation and Containment System (PICS) designed to isolate patients during transport. PICS creates a negative air pressure environment when connected to a HEPA Air Filtration System to reduce risk of cross-contamination and to protect health care providers. PICS also can be a positive pressure system for transport of burn patients. (Source: EMS Innovations) Paul McHale, former assistant secretary of Defense for homeland defense, has joined McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. … Microsoft Corp. has promoted Linda Zecher to corporate vice president of its Worldwide Public Sector. … Hughes Network Systems LLC has appointed Richard Lober as Defense and Intelligence Systems vice president and general manager. … Dortronics Systems Inc. has appointed Paul Sciandra to its national sales network. … James Jones resigned from the board of Cross Match Technologies Inc. to become national security advisor to President Barack Obama and the company named Jerry Zionic to its board of directors. … Roger Echeandia has joined eVigilant Security as director of sales. … Jack Derrico will manage Hirsch Electronic‘s mid-Atlantic sales. … ioimage has appointed Zeev Farkash to the position of chief executive officer. … Knowledge Link has appointed Carleton Jones and Robert Wallace to its board of directors. … Matrix Systems has named Jim Russell vice president for sales and marketing and Rick Oskam as regional sales manager for the Northeast. … videoNEXT has appointed Christopher Gettings as president and CEO and James Hunt as chairman of the board of directors. Tampa authorities deploy collaborative technology for Super Bowl security E•SPONDER, O’Fallon, Mo., a provider of collaborative communications solutions, partnered with 60 federal, state, regional, local and municipal authorities to plan the security details for Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 1. In preparation for and during the game, E•SPONDER connected onsite and remote authorities, allowing them to remotely track all activities in real time with mapping as well as 3-D displays, 2-way radio integration and immediate communication. The Tampa Incident Command staff used the E•SPONDER portal to visualize all aspects of the Super Bowl activities and to track events, incidents, resources and tasks in real time using its large display, multi-user, multi-touch and interactive capabilities, which also allowed it to communicate with remote devices and personal computer2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=21http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=21URITY HOMELAN Jerusalem’s historic Dome of the Rock mosque selects Xtralis VESDA solution Authorities overseeing the historic Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem have selected the VESDA Aspirating Smoke Detection (ASD) system by Xtralis, Norwell, Mass., a provider of intelligent fire detection and security solutions, to enhance fire safety at the historic building. TheVESDA system will be deployed in conjunction with Xtralis partner Orientals Engineering, based in Jordan. VESDA ASD is designed for use in environments with a zero tolerance for fire, such as historic buildings and landmarks, museums and critical infrastructure facilities. VESDA ASD has been deployed successfully at important religious and historic sites around the world, including London’s National Gallery, Beijing’s Forbidden City, and Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace. 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(866) 928-5710 www.versi-panelenclosures.com HSToday Magazine | April 2009 Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters 192009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=22http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=22JERRY MCCREA/STAR LEDGER/CORBIS A New Day for Mass Transit By A N T H O N Y K I M E R Y 20 April 2009 | www.HSToday.us This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=23http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=23THE NATION'S STRAPHANGERS CAN TAKE HEART—THERE'S A NEW FOCUS ON PROTECTING THEIR DAILY COMMUTE AFTER YEARS OF TAKING A BACK SEAT TO AVIATION SECURITY, MASS TRANSIT SECURITY IS GETTING NEW ATTENTION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND CONGRESS—AND THEY HAVE MADE CLEAR THAT THEY INTEND TO DIRECT MORE RESOURCES TOWARD IT. In January, Senate Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said his committee will put a spotlight on rail and transit security. In his opening remarks at the Jan. 15 hearing on Obama’s nomination of Janet Napolitano to be homeland security secretary, Lieberman said, “We have some priorities and unfinished business . rail and transit.” Napolitano agreed. “We haven’t done as much there as we have done on the aviation” side, she said, promising that correcting the lopsidedness would be a priority as homeland security secretary. On her first official day as secretary, Napolitano directed TSA to provide her with a review of current strategies, plans and programs for surface transportation security and a side-by-side comparison of the threat environment, resources and personnel devoted to security. Napolitano said she plans to expand TSA’s efforts to secure mass transit and believes TSA’s recent rail security guidelines should be mandatory, with penalties imposed against systems that do not comply. The guidelines require passenger rail carriers to designate rail security coordinators and report significant security concerns to TSA. The rule also codifies TSA’s broad inspection authority. While the guidelines are not unduly burdensome to implement, they do require improvement of security planning, transit employee training in security awareness and regularly scheduled security inspections. But critics are concerned that keeping the guidelines voluntary leaves compliance to the whims of transit officials. According to a June 2008 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General’s (IG) report, TSA’s Administration and Coordination of Mass Transit Security Programs (http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/ OIG_08-66_Jun08.pdf), on DHS’ administration and coordination of mass transit security programs, many of the nation’s major passenger rail systems had not met previous TSA security guidelines. The IG reported 37 of the nation’s 48 largest transit systems weren’t complying with voluntary guidelines that were established in 2007. Transit Police Patrolman Vladimir Vaval (rear), State Police Trooper Peter Velez (center), and Transit Police Patrol officer Cindy Garcia (foreground) work as a team, patrolling a New Jersey Transit commuter train from Newark to New York as part of a New Jersey homeland security effort. Inherently vulnerable “As recent overseas attacks have shown, subway and commuter rail systems are inherently vulnerable to terrorism,” the IG stated in the report. “A large system can have more than 100 stations, each with multiple station entrances HSToday Magazine | April 2009 Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters 212009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=24http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=24A NEW DAY FOR MASS TRANSIT and platforms, providing a terrorist numerous options for carrying out an attack.” In addition, the report noted, “passengers routinely wear bulky outdoor clothing and carry a variety of packages or bags on board, which gives terrorists an easy way to conceal weapons or explosives. Limitations in current technology make screening millions of commuters impractical, and existing chemical and biological weapons sensors are only useful after an attack has already begun.” “Mass transit is the perfect target for terrorists. Where else can you take hundreds of innocent lives and effect such chaos as to effectively shut down a city?” David Cid, the former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) counterterrorism specialist, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) consultant and deputy director of the Oklahoma Citybased Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, told Homeland Security Today. “Terrorists recognize that mass transit systems are inherently accessible targets and easy to attack,” said Cid. “They’re attractive targets for killing large numbers of people because of the difficulty in monitoring the activities and behavior of these large numbers of people—physical security is limited because of” this. But Paul Lennon, general manager of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Mass Transit Sector, explained to Homeland Security Today that “if we are to maintain the open, immediate transportation service characteristics of our public transportation systems—that is, without implementing draconian or very costly security and interruptive measures—no one can guarantee that they can prevent someone who is single-minded and bent on destroying themselves in the process.” Charles “Sam” Faddis, a 20-year veteran CIA counterterrorist, insisted, though, that mass transit security—even in the Washington, DC, metro area—is alarmingly vulnerable. Having tackled terrorists from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, where he was a station chief before heading up the weapons of mass destruction counterterror branch at the National Counterterrorism Center, Faddis is a down and dirty, no-nonsense counterterrorist who thinks like a terrorist. From a “terrorist’s perspective, I can say that over the past few months of closely observing transit systems in the Washington metro area, I haven’t seen a lot that I can say is encouraging,” Faddis said. “There just isn’t much of anything [in the way of effective security] that matters from the perspective of Madrid, or London, or the Mumbai rail attacks.” He was brutally blunt: “The norm … is there is no worthwhile security of any kind. … It’s a real rarity when you do see the kind of security that would either deter or make terrorists think twice about trying to carry out an attack.” A counterterrorist’s perspective After taking his first post-9/11 passenger train ride last spring from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Penn Station in Manhattan, Faddis said he couldn’t believe that it “was possible that seven years into the war on terror there were no visible changes of any kind to security. … There was no impediment of any kind, no matter how small, to any terrorist attempt to stage an attack.” Wondering what’s being done to prevent attacks on Capitol area rail transit, Faddis enlisted the aid of associates and over a period of eight months did his own assessment of the security of capitol area transit systems like the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) and Maryland’s MARC. VRE, which provides commuter rail service throughout northern Virginia and into Washington, DC, transports more than four million 22 April 2009 | www.HSToday.us This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=25http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=252009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=26http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=26Effective deterrents Former CIA counterterrorist Faddis noted: “At the risk of sounding simplistic, deterrents have to be things that will make a team of terrorists avoid staging an attack. A terrorist only cares if he actually sees that you are really searching bags with enough frequency to pose a problem for him.” To that end, Faddis said the following security measures are the only “real world … deterrents that will make a difference to a team of hardened, trained pros who are coming to commit mass murder.” Visible armed security at train and subway stations and, at least intermittently, on trains themselves. If nothing else, they should walk the aisles at stops; Frequent bag checks, at least of anything that seems large enough to hold a serious explosive device. These should be done at entrances to stations, randomly on the platform and on cars. They don’t have to target everyone, but should be frequent; Wanding of bags with handheld metal detectors as a supplement to physical inspection of bag contents. This can be done frequently and quickly as long as it is done reasonably professionally. It does not have to be perfect, but it should have a psychological impact on anyone casing the system; As many dogs as possible in stations, at entrances, on platforms, walking down aisles when trains stop in stations and moving aggressively. The dogs do not have to be fully trained because a potential terrorist would have no idea of the dog’s capabilities; he would just know that the dog presents a risk to him and his operation. Putting a few metal detectors and trained personnel in stations, changing their locations at random and screening random passengers, since it’s impractical to screen everyone coming through. “For a team [of terrorists] to pull off a serious rail attack requires multiple players and synchronized actions,” Faddis explained. “I, as team leader of the bad guys, have to be confident that I can put six to 12 guys on different trains all on the same morning and all in the same timeframe—and that nobody gets caught. Because I know that if even one guy gets nabbed, the whole system shuts down and the attack is a failure.” Across the east coast, mass transit authorities said they have put into practice many of the types of security measures Faddis and other counterterrorists say are the most effective deterrents. They rely heavily on a human security presence. A NEW DAY FOR MASS TRANSIT passengers annually and is growing in ridership at a rate four times that of any other passenger rail system. “We encountered no railway security personnel of any kind,” Faddis explained. “The only officials noted were conductors on the train. There was never any ID check of any kind done before passengers boarded the train. No bag searches were ever done. No explosive sniffing dogs were ever sighted. No metal detectors were ever seen. “In short,” Faddis said, “what eight months of daily observation of VRE showed was that, despite the fact that it services the nation’s capital and is the second busiest passenger rail system in the United States, there are no security measures of any kind in place to prevent a repetition of a Madrid-style attack.” Faddis said he encountered similar lack of security on MARC, Maryland’s equivalent of VRE. MARC transports more than 30,000 passengers a day, services 43 stations and terminates at Union Station near the Capitol and Senate office buildings. “Security measures on MARC were determined to be a mirror image of those on VRE,” Faddis said, adding, “there were no sightings whatsoever of security personnel, dogs, metal detectors or any other impediment to terrorist 24 April 2009 | www.HSToday.us This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=27http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=27A NEW DAY FOR MASS TRANSIT attack on this system. It was wide open.” Last November, a man carrying a Chinese SKS semiautomatic assault rifle capable of firing bullets that will penetrate steel and concrete was arrested only after he’d boarded a MARC train at a station in Baltimore. “The man, carrying the three-foot-long rifle wrapped in a blanket, was allowed to board without interference or notice,” Faddis said, emphasizing that “he was arrested not because railroad security personnel had identified him as a threat but because the cab driver who dropped him at the station called police.” “What we’re doing by and large in terms of security when we do practice security on our transit systems is an extrapolation from traditional law enforcement techniques that were designed to deter common criminals,” and that “just doesn’t have any deterrent effect on someone who is determined, disciplined and focused on engaging in terrorism,” Faddis explained. Veteran CIA counterterrorist Chuck Allen, DHS under secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in a January hearing that “a determined and innovative adversary will make great efforts to find security vulnerabilities and exploit them. Terrorists are always seeking to identify weaknesses in our security and exploit them.” Consequently, Allen said, “vulnerability assessments used to develop security and protective protocols must look closely at our nation’s assets from the perspective of the terrorist, vigorously seek the weaknesses that they can exploit and work tirelessly to minimize if not eliminate those weaknesses.” law enforcement officers,” Roeber told Homeland Security Today. “As for on board the trains themselves,” Roeber explained, “our programs have been two-fold: We allow uniformed officers to ride for free, and so there is a large presence of both uniformed officers as well as military officers. In and of itself, that acts as a major deterrent. The one program—and we were the first in the country to start this and have been very successful with it—was we initially had 120 undercover officers—they could be FBI, Secret Service, ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives], homeland security; they were the full gamut of law enforcement—and we’ve increased that number up to 140. But the protocol was that we would give them free passage—and they’d get a free monthly pass that would have a designation on it that only internal VRE people and conductors would know. “The agreement in principle was: Were a felony or some other act taking place on the train, that they would assist in stepping in until law enforcement could intervene,” Roeber continued. “So by the very nature of having 140 people participating in the program regularly, what it did was to act as that When does 1 + 1 give you more than 2? When the best of Microsoft® and ESRI are paired together. 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Mark Roeber,VRE’s government relations manager, said VRE’s deployment of both uniformed and plainclothes federal, state and local law enforcement agents serves as an effective, persistent unpredictable 2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=28http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=28A NEW DAY FOR MASS TRANSIT other level of deterrence because, as most everyone knows, terrorists by their very nature like normalcy, they like consistency, they like to know this is going to happen when, and this is going to be here or there. They don’t want to walk into a train and suddenly be looking at potentially seven or eight uniformed officers as well as how many unknown FBI, or Secret Service, or ATF officers who are sitting there fully armed. “With those protocols and then a hired security service that we have that we send through trains every so often, we have certain levels and tiers of this sort of umbrella-ed protection. Yet it’s so inconsistent that you can’t bank on that train one [won’t have] three officers.” On top of all that, Roeber said, “We added another layer by doing the canine sweeps of trains while en route, not just at the yards. We show up unannounced at a station and the dogs walk through. So again, you’re adding another level of uncertainty. … On any given day you could run into four or five different layers of people who would make your operation difficult. … I just don’t think that anybody would take us on given the fact that they’re just never sure of who they’re going to run into at any given moment.” Roeber emphasized that “TSA and [the Department of Homeland Security] are critical in the grant portion, because they completely fund our canine program. And now they’ve really helped us fortify our outlying yards.” TSA’s Lennon, who was previously director of intelligence and emergency preparedness management for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, agreed: “We feel that the security program model that we have developed and are implementing with our security partners, with all its separate security measures, does, and will continue to have, an impact on deterring terrorists from selecting mass transit and passenger rail systems as a target in the US,” he said. “From a layered security approach to the implementation of random security measures, to the hardening of our critical infrastructure, to training transit front line employees, to random baggage inspections and public awareness efforts, we feel that we are making it more difficult for the terrorist to understand and predict our security position,” he explained. Continuing, Lennon stated: “A wide array of measures are in place to reduce risk. While TSA and its partners in mass transit are focused intently on preventing attacks, we count on several other agencies, particularly our partners in the intelligence and law enforcement communities, to identify and prevent those that wish to do us harm from ever entering a transit system. “It’s also important to understand TSA’s role in mass transit security,” he stressed, noting that, “unlike aviation, TSA supports our partners to implement multiple layers of security in mass transit and passenger rail systems. We ensure transit agencies have security plans and we assess them through a vulnerability assessment process. Through this process, we are aware of what security measures are being employed by individual transit systems and we work with these systems to continually improve security.” Security shortchanged But a lot more can be done, say security authorities and lawmakers. Since 9/11, despite deadly rail transit attacks in Madrid, London and, more recently, in Mumbai, aviation security has continued to receive the lion’s share of attention and funding. In June 2006, a House homeland security committee report, Detour Ahead: Critical Vulnerability in America’s Rail and Mass Transit Security Programs (http://hsc-democrats.house.gov/SiteDocuments/ 20060801153711-86476.pdf), noted that “after the [9/11] bombings SENSAPHONE REMOTE MONITORING SOLUTIONS ® P ROTECT Y OUR: EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTER VACCINE STORAGE DATA CENTER COMPUTER ROOM OTHER CRITICAL FACILITIES Notification Via: Monitor For: SENSAPHONE products provide remote monitoring of critical equipment and facilities. 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Yet, nearly a year later, DHS and the TSA have failed to produce a comprehensive strategy to secure America’s rail and mass transit systems.” The report said DHS “made excuses for this failure by stating that mass transit security is a shared responsibility between federal, state and local partners, and that the federal government has provided significant support for the past three years. … This ‘partnership,’ however, has long left state and local governments paying the check without really knowing what they are paying for and why.” In July 2005, a week after trains and a bus were bombed in London, UK, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said it made more sense to spend more money on air security because a fully fueled passenger jet could kill 3,000 people while a bomb in a subway car might only kill a couple of dozen. Meanwhile, TSA chief Kip Hawley assured the committee that “effective measures are in place” to protect rail systems. However, former DHS inspector general Clark Kent Ervin told the House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection in April 2008 that “TSA has devoted its resources, personnel and attention almost entirely to aviation-related matters,” and that it’s way “past time for TSA to devote considerably more resources, personnel and attention to securing other modes of travel, especially mass transit.” Seconding Ervin, C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., former assistant secretary for Border and Transportation Security Policy and Planning, told the subcommittee, “I would argue that TSA already consumes far too large a portion of our scarce security resources.” As CIA counterterror veteran Faddis put it: “The guys we are Effective use of cameras “Everything and anything that has to do with finding out [terrorists’] identities afterward may be important, but it does not count as a deterrent. Cameras fall into this category,” according to former senior CIA counterterrorist, Faddis. Faddis argued that while cameras “may help prevent less sophisticated and/or less dedicated terrorists from doing things—a local idiot who wants to stash a bomb in a trash can, for instance, might get nabbed by a camera system—when it comes to the day that the varsity shows up and a team of honest-to-God Al Qaeda pros, or their equivalent, shows up to pull off something like Madrid, cameras will not help. There will be nothing for them to see.” Tony Tarsia, director of business development for the public sector of Kore Telematics, Reston, Va., said closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) can be made more valuable when they’re teamed with software that recognizes suspicious behavior or unusual vehicular activity and can alert appropriate security personnel. Virginia Railway Express, for instance, using TSA grants, has widely deployed a CCTV system that uses this type of software. fighting are ruthless. Vicious. Evil. They are also smart, dedicated and adaptable. Now that we have spent billions on beefing up airport defenses and tightening procedures, the chances that terrorists are going to try some sort of frontal assault on those defenses is virtually nil.” Although lawmakers have complained that DHS had yet to produce the comprehensive rail mass transit security plan mandated by a 2003 White House executive order, it wasn’t until 2005 that Con- Borders aren’t imaginary lines. They’re the front lines. Mobile Defensive Fighting Position™ (MDFP) DS-190 Series The MDFP is designed to maximize security at customs crossings, security checkpoints and other entry control points where high-level threats may exist. 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The Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) program received $20 million in FY 2008 for VIPR teams; $7.5 million in FY 2005 for explosive detection canine teams; and about $75 million for Transportation Security Officers from FY 2005 through FY 2009. While some transit systems like VRE have had their explosives sniffing canine programs funded by TSGP grants, other cities and localities have had to take it upon themselves to increase armed police presence and use bomb sniffing dogs and bomb detection technology and to deploy surveillance cameras and conduct random bag searches. Analysis WHEN DUTY CALLS, COMMUNICATE WITH DAVID CLARK AIR, LAND AND SEA… I Although the Obama administration and Democratic lawmakers have promised that mass transit will get the attention security authorities say it needs, it’s not going to be cheap. 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It’s so expansive,” Dan McGowan, Montana homeland security advisor, told Homeland Security Today. “Unless you visualize it, it’s really hard to understand,” he continued. “In Montana, we can fit four eastern states inside of our borders. It’s not a small state. It takes you 15 to 16 hours to get from the western side of Montana to the eastern side of Montana.” One important element of US border security strategy is the Secure Border Initiative (SBI), which is about to hit the northern border in the coming months and which will face very different challenges from those it has encountered in the south. The varied topography and weather conditions combined with high mountains and bodies of water create difficult circumstances for establishing absolute security along the porous US northern border with Canada. Montana shares 562 miles of border with Canada, making it the state in the continental United States with the longest section of the world’s longest undefended border (which totals about 4,000 miles between the United States and Canada). While the security of the international border is clearly a federal responsibility, it is sometimes difficult for federal authorities to know exactly what is required to provide security in such difficult environments. Hence, McGowan and other security experts agree, a successful border security strategy for the northern border must include input from local, tribal, state, federal and international stakeholders who share an interest in guarding the border yet maintaining the open flow of legitimate travel and trade. Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters HSToday Magazine | April 2009 312009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=34http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=34SBI COMES NORTH “I think it’s a very complex multi-jurisdictional issue that can only be advanced and moved forward through collaborative engagement with all of the key stakeholders and partners,” McGowan declared. “It’s not something you’re going to close completely. The border is very expansive, and it’s porous in nature. There are 14 ports along the border with varied levels of operations. It’s a complex situation, and it’s going to take not only strategic but tactical initiatives to protect that border as best we can with all of the partners.” making good progress,” Sands stated. About $460 billion in trade occurs between the United States and Canada annually, according to US federal estimates, making Canada the largest US trading partner. Increased security along the US northern border since Sept. 11, 2001, occasionally has raised concerns that trade between the nations will slow because of the security measures. “The Big Three automakers get a lot of parts from Canada, as do a number of other businesses. When we do things to secure the border, it often has an economic impact, especially back on 9/11. When they closed the border and the flow of materials stopped going back and forth, it created a significant issue. It is a complex problem,” Sands remarked. State government concerns Some counties in Montana have vast geographic areas with limited law enforcement personnel to cover them, McGowan noted. He applauded federal efforts like Operation Stonegarden, which awards grant funds to border states for increasing cooperation between state and federal law enforcement agencies in combating border crimes. Twelve counties in Montana participated in 2008, while 11 counties are participating this year. Operation Stonegarden started in fiscal year 2005 and spread to 14 border states. Congress funded the Federal Emergency Management Agency with $60 million in grant funds for Operation Stonegarden in fiscal 2009. In addition, Montana launched the Interoperability Montana project to put state and federal agencies in Montana along with Canadian first responders on a very large, redundant communications system that enables instantaneous communication. Montana also has conducted its own international border exercises with the Port of Sweetgrass, wrapping up its second such exercise with Canadian authorities in September 2008. A major trade route runs along the state’s Interstate-15, which transports livestock and other goods north and south into and out of Canada. “We are working on two Canadian mutual aid efforts right now,” McGowan reported. “We need to establish an agreement that allows the Canadian provinces to share resources with any of the states — or any of the states to share resources with the Canadian provinces. That one has a special issue to deal with because it requires working through the Department of State and it requires congressional ratification. “Right now, it is four separate pockets of agreements. It’s one border, so let’s have one agreement that’s better than we have now that allows us to share resources freely like the current Emergency Management Assistance Compacts,” he added. Sharing resources and keeping legitimate trade routes open also rank high on the list of priorities for the state of Michigan. “In Michigan, we have a number of issues that we have been working on improving with Canada,” Tom Sands, Michigan deputy state director for emergency management and homeland security, told Homeland Security Today. “We have had some cooperative efforts that we have been doing—joint training missions, for example. For a long time, we have had interagency agreements that consist of a gentleman’s handshake on response capabilities. Almost on a daily basis, the people in Michigan are interacting with emergency management folks and first responders from Canada. “We are an active member of the Central Region Emergency Management Advisory Council. That’s a number of northern states—Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Il2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=35http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=352009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=36http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=36SBI COMES NORTH to begin deploying surveillance equipment, Retired Air Force Col. Mark Borkowski, SBI executive director, told Homeland Security Today. Deployment of actual sensor capabilities in the area around Buffalo, NY, will begin in early May, according to Borkowski. “Now, there are other places where we are going to put hardware—around Detroit [Mich.],” Borkowski noted. “There are some existing systems that we are buying. We don’t buy them from Boeing, but they are systems that we buy for the southwest border called mobile surveillance systems. We are buying a couple of those for the area around Swanton [Vt.]. Those will also be available and deployed in the spring.” DHS will bring together and integrate additional resources from across the department in addition to local, state and international capabilities. “For example, on the Great Lakes, you have the Coast Guard and the Customs and Border Protection assets that include Air and Marine, Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations,” he said. “How do you link those to intel capabilities that the department is building to get effective control of the border? That’s a much broader, more comprehensive team effort that builds that kind of capability along the northern border. So we see the northern border as an opportunity to leverage the ability to integrate these elements that are there with strong capabilities.” Integration of those activities creates a force multiplier to exponentially increase the capabilities of their resources. The goal of SBI then is to advise integration activities on their technology options. Officials must learn quickly from their experiences with the SBI-Network (SBInet) program to adapt technologies to the northern border. “For example, let’s put up those sensor systems that are along the southwest border and see how well they do in the different environment in the north,” Borkowski explained. “Let’s use that to help determine and define what we need going forward. Maybe more significantly, can I through SBInet begin to demonstrate command and control and sensor fusion and sensor integration and actual operational integration among the various entities that are at play?” The actual threats along the southern and northern borders are fairly similar: interdict terrorists and contraband. The technology along the southern border, however, must assist with sifting through large masses of people attempting to enter the United States between ports of entry and help to separate potential terrorists from economic migrants, while migrants crossing the northern border usually do so at the ports of entry. And those that do cross between ports of entry often do so for what they perceive as legitimate reasons. “On the southwest border, it’s a mass of people. On the northern border, someone comes between the ports of entry because that’s the community. On the northern border, there are communities where they are used to coming and going across the border; they have been doing that for years. How do you defend the border without cutting off that normal commerce? But there are other parts of the northern border where, if someone is coming between the ports of entry, you must be very suspicious of what they are doing,” he stated. DHS also must adjust its sensor technology from detecting people in the southwest environment with low scrubby foliage to a northern environment with hills, rocks and trees. Air and marine 34 April 2009 | www.HSToday.us This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=37http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=372009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=38http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=38SBI COMES NORTH assets may prove more effective ways of keeping tabs on the northern border because of the vastly different terrain. “So it’s a question of numbers of people. It’s a question of how do those people typically come across the border—it tends to be different on the north than along the south. And it’s a question of terrain and geography. The question is where are you likely to see terrorists coming or where is drug smuggling more of a threat? Our perceptions of it can be different on the northern border compared to the southern border,” he said. entire supply chain, agreed Shirley-Ann George, director of policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. “Why are we doing all of these inspections at the border? We have to stop thinking about the border as a line. We should do inspections wherever we can increase security and increase efficiency. We have to increase both,” George told Homeland Security Today. Both the US and Canadian governments have done much to increase data requirements on shipments coming into their countries, which enables them to focus their resources based on the perceived risk associated with a shipment. Both nations must work out computer glitches and manpower, but such problems are not difficult to solve. “We have decades of good history on Canada/US cooperation that has worked well. The Saint Lawrence Seaway, for example, has been co-managed for years. We have done work where we have comanaged some environmental measures. We co-manage the Canada/US airspace with our joint command in Colorado. That is expanding to the seas now, as well,” she noted. Shared management of the border would best enable authorities to quickly identify trusted shippers and travelers and divert their focus to those that appear less secure, George concluded. Authorities can meet border security goals while protecting commercial interests through smart applications of programs like SBInet coupled with funding that benefits law enforcement agents like the grants from Operation Stonegarden. Following the lead of regions located in the northern states, federal authorities also should form a closer partnership with Canada to tackle mutual concerns. As the chambers of commerce indicate, trusted partnerships are the key to true security. HST Analysis Ultimately, the US government must focus its resources more effectively and provide additional benefits to entities that have been cleared through security processes, such as companies participating in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), Adam Salerno, senior manager of the US Chamber of Commerce, told Homeland Security Today. “We need a more cooperative approach when developing these policies,” Salerno said. “Our government and their government need to work together with the private sector to facilitate trade and move us away from a thickening of the border. “Moving security away from the border and moving it toward the supply chain is a more effective approach,” he added. “We support the C-TPAT program; however, the benefits of C-TPAT seem to be continuingly diminishing. 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The dominance of these companies really began in the 2007 Top 25. In the previous two years, the Homeland Security Today Top 25 mostly comprised firms doing housing or infrastructure required to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. Those days are over now. More is involved than the winding down of the Katrina cleanup effort. DHS has begun moving ahead on implementing priority programs. The 22 agencies brought together to create DHS have been creating the procurement infrastructure to implement HSToday Magazine | April 2009 392009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=42http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=42HSTODAY’S TOP 25 Top 25 Vendors in 2008 1. Boeing Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$590,501,415.98 2. IBM Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$485,197,799.66 3. Accenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$392,700,978.27 4. General Dynamics Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . .$391,459,167.73 5. Cooperative Personnel Services . . . . .$376,520,594.00 6. Science Applications Intl. Corp. . . . . . .$352,614,137.96 7. Unisys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$343,981,542.63 8. L-3 Communications Holdings . . . . . . .$324,524,441.64 9. Lockheed Martin Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$291,354,413.94 10. Integrated Coast Guard Systems . . . .$245,256,797.20 11. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. . . . . . . . . . .$242,901,451.24 12. Computer Sciences Corp. . . . . . . . . . .$220,492,092.16 13. G4S PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$161,006,887.75 14. Qinetiq Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$146,998,607.71 15. URS Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$145,637,430.16 16. American Eurocopter Corp. . . . . . . . .$143,876,561.16 17. General Electric Company . . . . . . . . .$137,430,340.98 18. Siemens AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$132,919,894.91 19. A K A L Security Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$132,286,442.76 20. Motorola Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$126,281,824.23 21. Northrop Grumman Corp. . . . . . . . . . .$119,756,102.19 22. Emergency Response Program Mgmt Consultants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$112,505,755.53 23. Firstgroup PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$105,950,602.34 24. Chenega Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$102,634,470.15 25. Michael Baker Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$102,032,787.30 Grand Total $5,926,822,539.58 major programs. Those efforts are beginning to bear fruit as shown in this year’s Top 25. The leading contractor, the Boeing Co., Chicago, Ill., is the prime contractor on SBInet, the program to use technology to tighten US borders. It received all of the $590 million in contracts from the Bureau of Customers and Border Protection (CBP). Boeing operates under an indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery contract. Actual spending by the CBP is considerably below this overall potential contract figure, particularly since work has focused on only a 28-mile pilot section along the USMexico border. The second-ranked contractor, IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, received $410 million of its $485 million of contracts from CBP . IBM developed the Automated Commercial Environment system intended to streamline CBP’s commercial processing systems under a $1.3 billion multi-year contract. Accenture, Hamilton, Bermuda, the third-ranked contractor, is the prime contractor for the $10 billion US-VISIT immigration and border management program. The new system uses and shares biometric information to ensure identities. It tracks the entry and exit of foreign nationals at airports, seaports and border crossings. General Dynamics, ranked fourth, has a number of different projects with the Coast Guard and other DHS agencies. It is developing Rescue 21, which will provide communications along the US coastline and in the Great Lakes region, Hawaii, Guam and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The system is to be completed by 2011, replacing the old National Distress and Response System. General Dynamics is also prime contractor for the Integrated Wireless Network, the next-generation interoperable voice, data and radio network, which is being developed by the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury. Deepwater and detention Integrated Coast Guard Systems, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md., and Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles, Calif., slipped considerably from its top ranking last year. The joint venture ranked 10th this year, with $189 million in contract awards, compared to $562 million last year. The joint venture has acted as the lead contractor for the Coast Guard’s $20 billion 2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=43http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=43HSTODAY’S TOP 25 Top Vendors By DHS Bureau mation technology support for DHS, particularly in cybersecurity. The company also provides remotely operated systems for bomb squads. It supports DHS’ Citizen and Immigration Support Centers by inputting biometric data. URS Corp., New York, NY, ranked 15th, is the leading contractor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It is a leading provider of first responder training and exercises. For example, it provided program management and technical support for the first weapons of mass destruction exercises in the United States, conducted in Seattle, Wash., and Chicago, Ill. Personnel companies also feature prominently on the list. For example, Akal Security, Espanola, NM, provides contract detection services to staff four large detention centers where foreign nationals are sent while awaiting deportation. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection .$2,405,705,137.06 Boeing Co. .$589,896,599.91 IBM Corp. .$417,526,399.12 L-3 Communications Holdings .$163,037,712.62 QinetiQ Ltd.$143,880,267.53 Unisys.$135,506,674.88 Chenega Corp.$94,504,762.17 American Eurocopter Corp. .$91,893,306.05 Motorola, Inc.$86,339,248.00 Lockheed Martin Corp.$80,281,257.63 Bart & Associates Inc.$73,709,727.83 G4S PLC .$73,292,311.97 VF Imagewear Inc. .$55,235,833.55 Government Acquisitions.$51,989,408.66 McTech Corp.$46,766,028.00 Robbins-Gioia Inc.$34,931,056.86 Computer Sciences Corp. .$33,549,997.14 General Atomics Tech Corp. .$32,670,099.00 Science Applications Intl. Corp. .$31,459,654.84 ST Net-Apptis Firstsource Joint Venture .$27,701,820.04 Computer Customizing.$27,354,520.04 Amdex Corp.$26,984,214.62 Colony Information Technology .$23,741,127.03 Kroll Inc. .$23,311,465.77 Comprehensive Health Services.$20,311,657.80 TKC Aerospace .$19,829,986.00 Transportation Security Administration.$1,663,593,182.65 Cooperative Personnel Services .$376,520,594.00 Unisys.$198,598,928.67 Lockheed Martin Corp.$140,000,856.98 Siemens AG .$131,950,192.61 General Electric Company.$122,742,433.50 L-3 Communications Holdings .$122,047,987.96 Covenant Aviation Security .$86,617,123.03 Accenture .$77,384,290.09 Smiths Group PLC.$59,306,671.65 Firstline Transportation.$39,748,158.00 Deloitte & Touche LLP.$30,179,542.63 Vic Thompson Co. .$26,229,480.00 Infozen Inc. .$25,215,218.19 Reveal Imaging Technologies .$24,512,468.90 Rapiscan Security Products .$24,257,273.58 Raytheon Co. .$22,847,232.11 IBM Corp. .$22,410,394.80 American Operations Corp. .$20,717,349.77 Carter & Burgess Inc.$19,481,435.20 Continued on page 42 Source: Eagle Eye (http://www.eagleeyeInc.com) Non-US companies Foreign companies are higher on the list than ever. This year, four foreign companies made the listing — the same number as last year, but this time they ranked higher. One, Smiths Group, London, UK, fell off the list, but is listed in the Rising 10 since it is only a matter of time before it returns to the Top 25. The highest ranked foreign company was a new entrant, UK-based G4S plc. Ranked 13th, G4S owns Wackenhut, a major provider of security services to nuclear plants and other facilities. QinetiQ Ltd., London, ranked 14th on the list, is the owner of Apogen Technology, an information technology company, and Foster-Miller, a manufacturer of robots used to defuse bombs and against chemical and biological threats. American Eurocopter LLC, a unit of the Franco-GermanSpanish European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., ranked 16th, provides helicopters to the Coast Guard and CBP . In July 2008, it was awarded an indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery contract for up to 50 additional AS350B3 helicopters worth more than $150 million. CBP already relies heavily on a Eurocopter fleet that includes 48 AS350s and 15 EC120s. Another five EC120s are already on order. Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, owes its ranking of 18th to its relationship with the Transportation Security Agency. Siemens installed and maintains the baggage-screening equipment purchased as a res2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=44http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=44Continued from page 25 HSTODAY’S TOP 25 Performance Management Consultants.$29,835,269.55 USProtect Corp. .$27,137,952.20 Capital Aviation Inc. .$27,053,049.96 Ares Group Inc.$25,133,572.50 US Investigations Services .$24,722,004.42 Asset Protection & Security .$22,480,890.44 Dell Computer Corp. .$22,357,274.19 Computer Customizing.$21,366,449.92 Dynatech Corp. .$20,505,052.06 Deco Inc. .$19,905,038.09 Bearingpoint Inc.$19,273,638.19 Federal Emergency Management Agency.$1,140,646,949.70 URS Corp. .$134,922,951.74 Emergency Response Program Management .$112,505,755.53 Firstgroup PLC .$105,951,372.34 Michael Baker Corp. .$100,660,892.95 Fluor Corp.$87,814,454.51 Partnership For Response .$77,061,322.19 Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. .$58,224,797.29 Tl Industries Inc. .$49,347,960.00 Science Applications Intl. Corp. .$46,868,551.85 Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. .$40,854,331.86 IBM Corp. .$35,353,880.01 Verizon Communications.$32,176,429.14 Partnership For Temporary Housing .$31,134,594.57 Ch2m Hill Companies Ltd.$27,575,555.70 Stratix Corp.$24,492,335.90 Computer Sciences Corp. .$22,372,146.00 P B S & J Corp.$20,210,139.51 Afognak Native Corp. .$19,719,787.69 OST Inc.$18,661,665.05 Shaw Group Inc. .$18,386,378.75 Corporate Lodging Consultants .$16,351,058.96 Northrop Grumman Corp.$15,947,394.23 BAE Systems .$15,756,964.96 Aecom Technology Corp.$14,263,270.57 Parker, Whitfield & Co. .$14,032,958.40 Office of the Secretary, DHS .$1,110,164,287.07 Accenture .$309,074,597.09 Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. .$138,478,645.85 General Dynamics Corp. .$83,297,797.69 Computer Sciences Corp. .$69,948,382.79 Hewlett-Packard Co. .$50,966,905.72 SRA International Inc. .$45,735,707.63 Lockheed Martin Corp.$42,723,554.17 Science Applications Intl. Corp. .$40,169,141.77 Mantech International Corp.$35,308,761.90 Source: Eagle Eye (http://www.eagleeyeInc.com) Commercial Net Lease Realty .$19,356,703.27 VF Imagewear Inc. .$18,085,048.94 Kaseman Corp. .$17,446,756.00 Science Applications Intl. Corp. .$13,918,515.83 Knowledge Consulting Group .$12,427,551.20 Isys LLC.$11,590,975.74 US Coast Guard .$1,172,553,548.16 Integrated Coast Guard Systems.$245,256,797.20 General Dynamics Corp. .$159,780,105.85 Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. .$88,351,646.27 Perot Systems Corp. .$79,278,762.24 Broadmoor.$76,026,534.00 American Eurocopter Corp. .$51,983,255.11 Nana Regional Corp. .$44,091,351.47 Marinette Marine Corp. .$40,902,589.77 Safe Boats International LLC.$39,442,170.98 BAE Systems .$38,878,475.41 ST Net-Apptis Firstsource Joint Venture .$31,274,878.64 Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. .$28,365,477.81 Tesoro Petroleum Corp.$26,542,661.51 Flir Systems, Inc. .$25,289,461.35 United Technologies Corp.$24,076,733.64 IKBI Inc. .$21,419,797.00 Caci International Inc. .$18,877,213.79 Snecma Moteurs.$18,490,933.55 Northstar Technology Systems .$18,320,403.39 L-3 Communications Holdings .$17,730,424.79 Honeywell Inc. .$17,049,592.72 Rockwell Collins.$16,698,895.82 Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP .$15,633,112.73 EADS NV .$15,197,002.99 CGI .$13,595,270.13 Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.$1,169,515,613.37 Science Applications Intl. Corp. .$149,765,743.23 A K A L Security Inc. .$132,287,467.60 G4S PLC .$84,544,832.02 Corrections Corp. .$84,121,038.35 Security Consultants Group Inc. .$55,987,482.97 Charter Services .$55,557,807.50 Esmor Correctional Services .$53,648,386.42 Knight Protective Service Inc. .$48,894,085.17 Paragon Systems, Inc. .$48,840,627.10 Hewlett-Packard Co. .$45,809,319.93 Rees Contract Service Inc.$42,173,261.21 Ahtna Inc. .$39,549,603.83 MVM Inc. .$37,552,300.91 Motorola, Inc.$31,013,465.61 42 April 2009 | www.HSToday.us This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=45http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=45HSTODAY’S TOP 25 Mitre Corp. .$35,271,232.01 Clark Enterprises .$31,387,000.00 Defense Group Inc. .$28,493,544.06 BAE Systems .$25,035,615.27 A-Tek, Inc. .$20,793,180.58 Creative Computing Solutions .$19,503,655.00 Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp .$17,910,434.74 Mythics, Inc. .$16,702,367.86 Chappy Corp.$15,479,495.00 The Tauri Group LLC .$13,855,731.00 Computer Customizing of Santa Barbara.$13,417,874.62 Centra Technology Inc.$12,770,825.86 Systems Planning & Analysis .$12,166,390.30 CACI International Inc.$11,098,403.89 ESRI.$10,713,895.30 Isys LLC.$9,861,146.97 Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.$754,312,459.23 General Dynamics Corp. .$141,396,688.76 Computer Sciences Corp. .$90,755,032.47 Cleanmetro Inc. .$89,771,978.78 Northrop Grumman Corp.$71,847,939.00 Science Applications Intl. Corp. .$55,334,549.93 Serco Group PLC .$54,304,018.40 SEI Technology Inc.$38,154,478.32 Multimaxarray Firstsource.$37,825,312.90 Stanley Associates Inc. .$33,672,078.40 Nortel Networks.$20,987,888.79 Lockheed Martin Corp.$16,243,549.96 JHM Research & Development.$14,755,382.01 Afognak Native Corp. .$14,241,920.73 Performance Management Consultants.$13,163,901.00 SRA International Inc. .$9,578,343.74 Techteam Global .$7,917,146.52 Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. .$6,295,846.56 TDB Communications Inc.$5,923,790.00 AMR Corp. .$5,803,489.00 Kroll Inc. .$5,057,680.00 ICF Resources Inc. .$5,018,836.56 Labat-Anderson, Inc.$4,140,544.64 United Parcel Service.$4,140,000.00 Aramark Corp. .$4,007,443.76 Westat Inc.$3,974,619.00 Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.$159,367,373.67 Whiting-Turner Contracting .$23,900,530.00 Environmental Indian Construct .$23,778,828.12 Arctic Slope Regional Corp.$17,533,822.58 Pyramid Services Inc. .$10,654,387.99 State of Georgia.$10,042,550.93 State of New Mexico.$6,611,526.30 Gaskins L C Construction Co.$6,214,143.72 Alliant Techsystems Inc.$4,843,641.61 Ramcor Inc. .$4,783,000.68 Science Applications Intl. Corp. .$4,410,309.98 Dial, Cordy and Associates Inc. .$4,377,371.00 Computer Customizing.$4,319,978.25 Wildflower International Ltd. .$3,996,030.09 Alpha Protective Services Inc.$3,922,367.23 Casepro Inc. .$3,589,718.78 The Nascent Group JV .$3,500,000.00 International Public Works LLC.$3,369,756.00 Olin Corp. .$2,834,501.50 Gilbane Inc.$2,775,808.00 Avaya Inc.$2,564,858.17 Ve Nika JV .$2,392,949.00 Boykin Contracting Inc.$2,323,278.17 Goldbelt, Inc.$2,295,423.55 Basic Contracting Services .$2,258,313.52 Proverbs 31 Investments, LLC.$2,074,278.50 US Secret Service.$69,003,053.25 Computer Customizing of Santa Barbara.$6,234,092.42 General Motors Corp.$5,822,813.00 Verizon Communications.$4,351,461.23 Trident Systems Inc. .$4,130,068.92 Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP .$3,892,603.96 SRA International Inc. .$3,647,830.80 Paradigm Solutions.$3,476,984.49 AT&T Inc. .$3,200,047.96 New Directions Technologies .$3,154,680.10 Computer Sciences Corp. .$3,058,013.72 Global Computer Entrprise Inc.$2,899,522.00 Visionary Integration Professionals.$2,573,935.12 Wildflower International Ltd. .$2,211,630.06 Lockheed Martin Corp.$1,987,654.32 Scheduled Airlines Traffic Office.$1,977,905.00 Mitre Corp. .$1,946,109.95 Test Equipment Remarketers Inc. .$1,939,303.46 ICF Resources Inc. .$1,902,979.00 Smiths Group PLC.$1,770,883.00 Xerox Corp.$1,660,467.19 Presidio Corp. .$1,532,189.73 M Cornish & Associates Construction.$1,436,669.00 Avaya Inc.$1,409,502.74 Alon Inc. .$1,400,000.00 Multimaxarray Firstsource.$1,385,706.08 Grand Total .$9,644,861,604.16 Source: Eagle Eye (http://www.eagleeyeInc.com) Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters HSToday Magazine | April 2009 432009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=46http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=46www.HSToday.us why we write… to provide insight and provoke discussion that bring about change We started Homeland Security Today to deliver objective, non-partisan insight and analysis on the topics of critical importance to those securing our homeland. Homeland Security Today has evolved into the premier homeland security media provider, creating a forum in which government leaders and HS professionals share their knowledge. Anthony Placido, intelligence chief for the DEA, references Homeland Security Today during his testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in March 2009 on the violence at the southern border. With a first class team of editors and international correspondents, we provide award-winning journalism—in print and online—that has changed our industry. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) read from a Homeland Security Today article about US trauma care preparedness at a Capitol Hill press conference in May 2004. for a safe and secure homeland Subscribe to magazine We put homeland security news at your fingertips through our print magazine, new digital publication, website and e-newsletters. Turn to Homeland Security Today for the information you need. Homeland Security Today is a proud recipient of multiple ASBPE Awards for editorial excellence in print and online 2007 CentralSoutheast Region 2007 CentralSoutheast Region 2005 CentralSoutheast Region 2005 CentralSoutheast Region Bronze Special Section Bronze Special Supplement Silver Special Section Bronze Regular Department Visit our website View the digital publication Sign up for e-newsletters2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=47http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=47The Rising MONITOR BY ITS NATURE, THE TOP 25 CANNOT INCLUDE ALL OF THE DYNAMIC COMPANIES THAT ARE A Special Edition of BUILDING UP THEIR HOMELAND SECURITY BUSINESSES. The Rising 10 list is noteworthy because it includes companies involved in the diverse activities that make up homeland security. They range from major systems integrators By PHILIP FINNEGAN to detection companies to manufacturers of new technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles. These companies promise to grow quickly in coming years because of either recent contract wins or their overall positioning in growing areas within homeland security. This listing, which makes no claim of comprehensiveness, looks at 10 of those companies that show promise as future leaders in homeland security. Many of these companies are likely to reach the Top 25 in coming years. Some already do considerable homeland security business, but act as subcontractors to other companies, so their contributions are not fully recognized in contract awards from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In recognition of the growing role of foreign companies in the US homeland security market, the listing includes UK-based BAE Systems, Italy-based Finmeccanica and UK-based Smiths Detection. The Rising 10 also includes several large US companies like Raytheon Co. and Honeywell International, which already do considerable homeland security work, but as subcontractors are not included in the Top 25. In addition to the five large companies, the listing includes five small to mid-size companies that may not reach the Top 25 but show the dynamic and technologically driven nature of homeland security. They comprise three specialty areas: unmanned aerial vehicles (General Atomics), detection (OSI Systems, AS&E and ICx Technologies) and biometrics (L-1 Identity Solutions). 10 2. Raytheon Co. 3. BAE Systems of 2009 MARKET optics/infrared); command and control; communications infrastructure; and maritime traffic tracking using satellite communications and vessel traffic management systems. It will also be able to use DRS and Finmeccanica’s marketing networks to sell each other’s products. In addition, DRS has a strong presence in border security programs. DRS is a contractor to Boeing on the SBInet border security program. It also has a strong position in Middle Eastern border security programs. In April 2008, it won a contract for the initial phase of a contract to provide the Jordanian Armed Forces with an end-toend border security system. In addition, DRS has a long-standing project to control Egyptian borders. Finmeccanica hopes to use that strength to win border projects elsewhere in the Middle East, such as in Saudi Arabia. Ultimately, Finmeccanica wants to sell combined DRS/Finmeccanica border control and maritime surveillance solutions either to the US market or overseas. 1. Finmeccanica Italy’s defense champion is moving into the US homeland security and defense market in a big way. The company acquired DRS Technologies, a major US homeland security and defense firm, in a $5.2 billion transaction that was completed in October. Finmeccanica’s management sees the opportunity to build its presence in the United States by combining its own capabilities and those of DRS. The Italian company’s management sees synergies in areas that include: sensors (coastal and ground radar, electro- Raytheon Co., Waltham, Mass., continues to experience rapid growth in its homeland security sales as its work on border security and cybersecurity continues to ramp up. Raytheon is the prime contractor on the United Kingdom’s $1.2 billion e-Borders project, which will input passenger data provided by air, sea and rail carriers into a national data collection system to track travelers. Raytheon is building on its continuing work in the US-VISIT project led by Accenture. Like Finmeccanica, Raytheon is pursuing the Saudi Arabian border project as a logical extension of that work. Raytheon has made a string of acquisitions2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=48http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=48RISING 10 OF 2009 BAE Systems’ $4.5 billion purchase of Armor Holdings in July 2007 already brought it a considerable presence in the US homeland security market. It provides state and local police with vehicles and protection systems, such as tactical vests, helmets and armor. in the past year. The company’s Micro Air Vehicle unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used successfully in Iraq to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and more have been ordered. Honeywell also proposed a new concept that would use UAVs to dispense decoys, chaff and flares to protect civilian aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles. In addition, the company developed a safer ammonium nitrate-based fertilizer to make it more difficult to turn into a weapon. 4. Smiths Detection Smiths Detection, London, UK, is the most transatlantic of any detection company. Through at least nine acquisitions in the United States and Europe, Smiths Detection has created a company with a broad market footprint. The breadth of the company in both homeland security and defense enables it to aggressively develop new technologies and move those technologies between markets. In addition to this mobility between markets in detection technology, Smiths Detection benefits from having a broad array of technologies that can be fused to make smaller, lighter, more reliable products. In particular, Smiths Detection is focusing on growth in chemical detection, bio-detection and imaging detection. Generally, there is a goal of making detection products smaller, lighter and more reliable. With this approach, Smiths Detection’s leadership is confident it can outpace the annual homeland security market growth in coming years. 6. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, San Diego, Calif., has established a strong track record with the use of its Predator UAVs by DHS. As of the end of last year, General Atomics had delivered six Predator B UAVs to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), with one more on order. In early 2009, the Predator Bs are scheduled to start patrolling the US border with Canada in addition to the border with Mexico. The Coast Guard is also evaluating a possible purchase of a Predator B with a maritime pod developed for its requirements. Ultimately, that could bring Predators into use in the Caribbean, the Great Lakes and maritime borders of the United States. 7. American Science and Engineering Co. 5. Honeywell International Honeywell International, Morristown, NJ, continues to show considerable commitment to the homeland security market. In May 2008, it completed its $1.2 billion purchase of Norcross Safety Products, Oak Brook, Ill., a manufacturer of personnel safety equipment for emergency responders and industrial use. Honeywell’s homeland security work achieved other milestones American Science and Engineering Co. (AS&E), Billerica, Mass., has made a name for itself with its Z Backscatter vans that have detected IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its products also offer considerable promise in domestic homeland security markets. CBP began using the company’s Z Portal for vehicle screening at the San Ysidro, Calif., border checkpoint. The company’s SmartCheck Z Backscatter Personnel Screening System is being tested at New 46 April 2009 | www.HSToday.us This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=49http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=49RISING 10 OF 2009 York’s JFK International, Los Angeles International and Phoenix Sky Harbor airports. AS&E’s competitive edge comes from Z Backscatter, a technology designed to detect materials in a manner superior to that of traditional transmission X-ray technology. It provides photo-quality images that reveal contraband, such as explosives, smuggled human beings, money and many other items. By combining traditional X-ray and Z Backscatter, AS&E is able to detect a broader range of threats and contraband than many other systems. $711 million in its production phase. Another key contract win in the Joint Force Protection Advanced Security System program involves ICx linking together chemical-biological-radiation-nuclear-explosives sensors, perimeter sensors, UAVs and unmanned ground vehicles to develop a common operating picture. The three-year, $9.4 million contract was awarded by the US Army. With the economic downturn, ICx is focusing on internal growth, rather than on making frequent acquisitions as it had in the past. The company also is focusing on increasing its international sales, which currently account for less than 10 percent of total sales. 8. OSI Systems OSI Systems, Hawthorne, Calif., is introducing a number of new detection projects that promise to continue to fuel its rapid growth. OSI Systems has a promising real-time tomography system that can be used to examine checked baggage. The system has the advantage of having three to four times the output of the current generation of cargo systems. This is only one of a series of new products. In addition, the company is selling a mobile cargo and vehicle X-ray inspection system, a portable walk-through metal detector, a millimeter wave technology personnel screening system to identify concealed explosives and an advanced checkpoint detection system allowing multiple views of a carry-on bag. 10. L-1 Identity Solutions L-1 Identity Solutions, Stamford, Conn., completed its $310 million purchase of Digimarc’s ID systems business in August 2008 in a major expansion of the company’s business. In making the acquisition, L-1 beat a competing offer by France’s Safran. L-1 has shown an appetite for building its biometric business through acquisitions. Digimarc, Beaverton, Ore., was an important building block in creating a biometric leader. Its products and services are responsible for more than 60 million personal identity documents annually, including those for 25 countries. Digimarc was L-1’s leading competitor in the production of driver’s licenses. L-1, which was created in 2006 by Bob LaPenta, a former founder of L-3 Communications, a major US defense and homeland security company, has been applying a model developed in defense involving growth through acquisitions to homeland security. L-1 now has a broad array of capabilities, including automatic fingerprint identification systems, non-automatic fingerprint identification systems, facial recognition and eye scans. HST 9. ICx Technologies ICx Technologies, Washington, DC, has won several key contracts in the past year, including a potential blockbuster contract to provide system engineering, analysis and integration for the Joint Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Reconnaissance System Increment 2 program. The $20 million, two-year contract ultimately could be worth Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters HSToday Magazine | April 2009 472009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=50http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=50TOOLS&TECHNOLOGY TALON Responder Robot now available for homeland security applications QinetiQ North America, McLean, Va., a global developer of technology solutions for national defense, homeland security and first responders, has announced that its Technology Solutions Group subsidiary, Foster-Miller, is now offering a TALON Responder robot specifically designed for public safety, fire and rescue organizations. The first purchase was made in December 2008 by a California police department. With long-range wireless digital communications, as well as analog, TALON Responder is designed to serve in challenging conditions, such as those found in radio frequency-congested inner cities. The robot includes a disruptor-ready manipulator arm, wrist and gripper that can exert up to 30 inch-pounds of force on a 6-inch-wide object. Three infrared illuminated color cameras, including a pan/tilt mast with color zoom camera, complete the robot’s standard configuration. A laptop controller with gamepad controls allows operations from a safe distance—up to 500 to 1,200 meters (1,600 to 4,000 feet)— depending on the radio option selected. (Source: QinetiQ North America) Vicon introduces new I-ONYX IP cameras with digital noise reduction Vicon Industries Inc., Hauppauge, NY, a designer and producer of video surveillance systems, has announced the addition of three new models within its IONYX line of IP cameras. The VN-856 series, which includes color, day/night and wide dynamic range models, all feature digital noise reduction (DNR), allowing the cameras to provide superior performance in low light conditions. The cameras apply DNR algorithms to process the video prior to transmission, reducing the noise that typically plagues video captured in low light. The cameras offer several features designed to provide system designers with added flexibility when determining camera placement within an installation. All offer programmable privacy masking zones that allow for sections of the image to be shaded out so that the operator may not view video within these boundaries. A mirror setting allows for aiming the camera at a mirror, rather than the desired scene, and the captured image is automatically reversed for viewing purposes, returning it to its proper orientation. A sensitivity setting allows the user to increase the camera’s sensitivity as it detects the light levels in dark or night environments. All three cameras provide a resolution of 540 horizontal lines and employ ViconNet MPEG-4 compression. (Source: Vicon Industries Inc.) Maximize Your Reach & Budget! PROMOTING NATIONAL SECURITY SINCE 1919 NDIA DEFENSE EXHIBIT GUIDE Pacific Operational S&T Conference August 3-7, 2009 Oahu, HI Exhibit POC: Alden Davidson Meeting POC: Angie DeKleine 10th Annual Science & Engineering Technology Conference / DoD Tech Exposition April 21-23, 2009 North Charleston, SC Exhibit POC: Carris Britton, 703-247-2573 Meeting POC: Claudia Diaz, 703-247-2596 2009 Homeland Security S&T Stakeholders Conference East May 19-22, 2009 Washington, DC Exhibit POC: Carris Britton 703-247-2573 Meeting POC: Tia Pitt 703-247-9467 DOD Enterprise Architecture Environment, Energy, & Sustainability Symposium & Exhibition (formerly JSEM) May 4-7, 2009 Denver, CO Exhibit POC: Dennis Tharp, 703-247-2584 Meeting POC: Kari Deputy, 703-247-2588 June 1-5, 2009 St Louis, MO In conjunction with OSD CIO NII Meeting and Exhibit POC: Betsy Lauer, 703-247-9473 2009 Land & Maritime Supply Chains Business Conference August 17-19, 2009 Columbus, OH Exhibit POC: Dennis Tharp 703-247-2584 Meeting POC: Kelly Seymour 703-247-2583 Joint Service Power Expo May 4-6, 2009 New Orleans, LA Exhibit POC: Alden Davidson, 703-247-2582 Meeting POC: Angie DeKleine, 703-247-2599 PSA-Armaments Technology Fire Power Forum June 9-10, 2009 Whippany, NJ Meeting and Exhibit POC: Dawn Campbell, 703-242590 47th Air Targets, UAVs & Range Ops Conf & Exhibition Oct 21-23, 2009 Savannah, GA Exhibit POC: Dennis Tharp 703-247-252009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=51http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=51Toshiba launches mini-dome surveillance camera Toshiba Surveillance & IP Video Products, Irvine, Calif., a business unit of Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., has announced the IK-DF03A, a mini-dome surveillance camera designed to be installed in virtually any location. The IK-DF03A camera is offered in three designs, each featuring a different fixed lens (3.6mm, 8.0mm, 12.0mm) targeted at specific field of view needs. In addition, the IK-DF03A is qualified for use indoors, outdoors or in industrial areas and may be mounted on a ceiling or sideways on a wall with the optional wall-mount bracket. Only two screws are needed for ceiling or wall mounting. (Source: Toshiba Surveillance & IP) New antennas for public safety vehicles STI-CO Industries Inc., Orchard Park, NY, a supplier of vehicle antennas, has released two new products to its line: a new dual port roof mount antenna and a new flexi-whip global position system (GPS) antenna, both designed for public safety vehicles. The dual port roof mount antenna allows simultaneous twoband operation from just one antenna instead of two and fits on standard mounts. The integrated coupler accepts two feed lines for separate VHF and 800 MHz radios. The flexi-whip mast is mounted on a GPS base and may be field tuned to any frequency between 135 MHz and 1 GHz. (Source: STI-CO Industries) Portable ultrasound imaging device now distributed in United States EMS Innovations, Pasadena, Md., a provider of disaster mitigation, medical supplies, personal protection, HAZMAT and response recovery products, is now the exclusive distributor for the ACUSON P10 ultrasound system from Siemens Healthcare, Munich, Germany. The ACUSON P10 system is the first pocket ultrasound imaging device, providing physicians and clinical personnel with earlier and faster clinical assessment at the point of care. The product is designed to more widely enable cardiological, emergency medicine care and obstetric applications in the field. 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ALSO IN MAY… SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: COMING IN JUNE… Homeland Security Today's MAY EDUCATION GUIDE A comprehensive look at educational opportunities in homeland security. CAMPUS SECURITY: The 2009 Hurricane Season issue Craig Fugate and the future of FEMA A veteran responder takes charge. From Reactive to Proactive By Philip Leggiere How new tools like data mining and social networking sites are enhancing campus security. Smart Preparedness Procurement How states and localities can buy better. Advancing Mass Notification Getting out the word in new and better ways. Testing Time for TSA By Kelley Vlahos America's airport security agency faces new challenges. Also: Responders Today: Personal Protective Equipment Agency Spotlight: Environmental Protection Agency Plus: Responders Today: Honolulu Agency Spotlight: Department of Commerce Nebraska Ave.: REAL ID Leadership Profile: G4S Wackenhut To advertise in this issue, call 1-800-503-6506 or email dyoung@HSToday.us2009-04-01T04:17:34+02:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=54http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/April2009/?Page=54LEADERSHIP PROFILE BY DAVID SILVERBERG IT’S THE RARE PERSON WHO WILL COME FORWARD UP FRONT AND SAY THAT HE IS PUTTING HIS PAST EXPERIENCE AS A FELON AT THE SERVICE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, INTELLIGENCE AND HOMELAND SECURITY. In the late 1990s, Michael Bagley was having a tough time financially. A self-employed security consultant who had previously worked on Capitol Hill, he succumbed to temptation. Using some inside information or “social engineering” as it’s known, he used what’s known as a “cage code,” to engineer the transfer of $144,000 from a client company to a gambling casino to cash in a bank in Boston. The first transfer worked. But Bagley went to the well again and the crime was discovered. He was charged with felony fraud and embezzlement and did 73 days in jail and probation as part of a plea agreement. Most people wouldn’t venture near the security industry again after that—or even venture into the public realm. However, Bagley, along with a veteran law enforcement investigator and a cybersecurity expert, last year created The OSINT Group—a Washington, DC-based private intelligence company serving government and private clients. Principals include longtime law enforcement veteran James Smith who, as a private contractor, was part of the US Army effort code-named “Able Danger” that identified Mohammed Atta through data mining as a potential terrorist prior to Sept. 11, 2001 and Karim Hijazi, a counterintelligence, cybersecurity and risk assessment expert. Bagley claims his principals and their associates can produce better, deeper and more connected information using open source data than government or private sector clients can themselves and serve as a “black hat” adversary to strengthen cyber defenses. “Over the last several years, I made a conscious decision to make moves in the national security and cybersecurity sector because I felt like I needed to make an effort to amend for my own ‘intrusion’ into another company,” said Bagley. “In an ironic way, it takes guys who think like me to catch guys who think like me. This is sort of the Frank Abagnale phenomenon. If you saw the Leo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks film, day in newspaper recruitment advertisements for network and cybersecurity experts and people with open source expertise but very little of that resides within existing government agencies or corporations. According to OSINT promotional materials, the company can legally access what it calls “The Deep Web” with technology that provides access to 500 times more sources than conventional Web search engines and can query multiple search sites directly and simultaneously. According to Bagley his team is the best at searching for connected data and then putting it together. “If someone were doing it better, there probably wouldn’t be as many opportunities as there are, there wouldn’t be so many job openings for open source intelligence analysts,” he contended. Bagley is especially concerned that government agencies are hampered by restrictions, clearance requirements and bureaucratic stovepipes. “I have always been a friend of the [intelligence] community [IC]. For the past several years I’ve watched them, I’ve observed them, I’ve monitored them and I realized that open source intelligence is an increasingly valuable commodity for not only the IC but the government but it’s not being used to the best capacity that it can be for any number of reasons: stovepipe reasons, limited outside/external availability of information.” Further, he said, “government intelligence is antiquated. It’s status quo in, status quo out.” One of Bagley’s constant themes is the utility of having an outsider challenging existing assumptions, particularly when it comes to hacking and network intrusions. “Black operations require people to think this way,” he argued. “Otherwise, there are no black teams. 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