NEW! AGENCY SPOTLIGHT: THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AND HOMELAND SECURITY HomelandSecurityToday H O M E L A N D S E C U R I T Y I N
THE ENEMY IS “WHAT?” Can you hear me? Say again? Is the data going through? Can I get help here? You must be in touch or you’re
DEPARTMENTS 3 4 Editor’s Letter Looking South Updates & Responses DHS bio-lab selection expected to move quickly BY KELLEY VLAHO
EDITOR’S LETTER Looking south IT’S A NEW YEAR, A NEW PRESIDENT, A NEW ADMINISTRATION, A NEW SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND A
UPDATES & RESPONSES DHS bio-lab selection expected to move quickly ON DEC. 5, 2008, THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE OF TH
Providing innovative new tools to find people and things in remote areas is just one of our many jobs. We’re Science Applications
FRONT LINES BY MARC PEARL The transition and homeland security A REPORTER CALLED RECENTLY TO ASK ME HOW THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN MI
Talk as one. Work as one. Introducing the next-generation Harris Unity™ XG-100 Multiband Radio—now available to federal, state,
FUNDING & RESOURCES The agony of LETPP BY MICHAEL PADDOCK Departmental overlap It’s not hard to find overlap in Homeland Securit
Meet the returning troops. All five Hardigg Military Case categories boast cases that are not only virtually indestructible as we
RESPONDERS TODAY Kayyem conducts a responder revolution BY JEFF O’NEILL, HSTODAY BOSTON CORRESPONDENT AP PHOTO/BIZUAYEHU TESFAYE
RESPONDERS TODAY THEY’LL GET THE MESSAGE. tal security elements,” said Lorenzo Para, director of security planning for the Massa
NEBRASKA AVENUE Thai officials prepare snacks and food products tainted with the toxic chemical melamine for destruction. The NB
NEBRASKA AVENUE streamlining the flow to state and local partners. It is not there, yet. So far, NBIC has signed memoranda of un
AGENCY SPOTLIGHT Defense technology for America’s home front BY HANK HOGAN, HSTODAY IT CORRESPONDENT WHILE NOT ITS PRIMARY MISSI
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MARKET MONITOR AS&E sees strong international, homeland security growth potential BY PHILIP FINNEGAN THE MANAGEMENT OF AMERICAN
HOMELAND SEC INDUSTRY NEWS INDUSTRY ROSTER Tricia De Blander joined Data Systems Analysts Inc., as director of human resources b
URITY HOMELAN DEA awards contract to STI-CO for covert mobile antennas The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has awarded STI
REUTERS/STRINGER The bodies of two Mexican federal policemen lie dead after a shootout with drug hitmen in the border city of Re
By A N T H O N Y K I M E R Y, H S T O DAY S E N I O R R E P O R T E R IN NORTHERN MEXICO A LARGELY OVERLOOKED BUT NONETHELESS BR
SAVAGE STRUGGLE ON THE BORDER Within days, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) announced a state initia- illicit drug trade in every area
REUTERS/ALEJANDRO BRINGAS (MEXICO) Mexican police investigators work at a crime scene where seven bodies were found gunned down
SAVAGE STRUGGLE ON THE BORDER Continued from p. 24 A border better controlled “We’re hoping this will result in self-attrition,”
SAVAGE STRUGGLE ON THE BORDER In the El Paso and other southwest Border Patrol sectors, the border fence is strategically being
SAVAGE STRUGGLE ON THE BORDER Defenders under assault A year ago, senior US counter-narcotics officials at a classified meeting
SAVAGE STRUGGLE ON THE BORDER to be more killings.” Yuma County Sheriff Ralph Ogden echoed Estrada. He told KOLD that “the viole
SAVAGE STRUGGLE ON THE BORDER Shortly after I left the border, at a problem area I had visited, a Border Patrol agent was forced
SAVAGE STRUGGLE ON THE BORDER taken to Tijuana, where they were held for ransom. FBI agents in San Diego confirmed that they inv
Janet Napolitano, governor of Arizona, looks out the window of a state plane and watches smoke columns rise off the Brins Fire,
Arizona under Napolitano By SARA FRANCIS-FUJIMURA I ADMIT IT. I COVET MY NEIGHBOR’S PUTTING-GREEN-QUALITY YARD. A PROFESSIONAL L
ARIZONA UNDER NAPOLITANO safety and immigration issues, not only at the border towns but all Though the raids continued, later t
ARIZONA UNDER NAPOLITANO “My fear is that we will lose that balance [Napolitano had], and some of the things that shouldn’t be p
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The New Era in Netcentric Security By PHILIP LEGGIERE, HSTODAY BUSINESS EDITOR AS NEW DEVICES AND PLATFORMS COME ON LINE, THEY B
THE NEW ERA IN NETCENTRIC SECURITY and security interests. Based on various studies and expert opinion, GAO estimated the direct
THE NEW ERA IN NETCENTRIC SECURITY Avert Labs to provide active protection on the fly when a computer regarding the rapidly expa
THE NEW ERA IN NETCENTRIC SECURITY The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MSISAC), Albany, NY, a collaborative
THE NEW ERA IN NETCENTRIC SECURITY The forward challenge for businesses and banks, according to Amster, “is going to be maintain
DHS Programs of 2009 The Year of Strategic Sourcing By MICKEY McCARTER HSTODAY WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT GREG ROTHWELL CAME TO TH
set-aside provisions, as well. The first functional category, training, may spondence management, while technical services compa
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ICx Technologies introduces Raider radionuclide detector ICx Technologies, Washington, DC, a developer of advanced sensor techno
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COMING IN FEBRUARY: PART 2 OF THE “SAVAGE STRUGGLE” Could Mexico Fail? Brian Jenkins, veteran terrorism analyst and author of th
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