http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/RSS.ashxiPaper PagesSun, 22 Nov 2009 20:29:01 +0100http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=1http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=1SHOULD AMERICAN HOTELS ABROAD GET GOVERNMENT PROTECTION? HomelandSecurityToday I N S I G H T & A N A LY S I S Nov. 2009 Vol. 6, No. 11 $5.95 USD ™ Plus. Reinvention Tension No Longer Lost at Sea Adapting to new coastal realities Building maritime domain awareness Hardening Ground Zero— and Beyond The New York challenge The Maritime Challenge Adm. Thad Allen and the US Coast Guard2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=2http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=2THE ENEMY IS UNCERTAINTY. What’s out there? What’s next? What’s around the corner? Our goal at DRS is to help defeat this common enemy, to turn questions into answers. Make the unknown known, and give your people the tools to succeed. In the field, you want answers. Which is why DRS continuously improves the technology to see more and know more within an ever-changing environment: night vision and vehicle sight enhancement products, tactical computers and communications tools that inform and enable personnel wherever they may be. Bring us your toughest challenges. We’re always looking for new enemies to conquer. www.drs.com2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=3http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=3DEPARTMENTS 3 4 7 Editor’s Letter Climate change, the Coast Guard and homeland security Updates & Responses Saudi suicide bomber attempts novel assassination Frontlines How many Americans have to die in Westernowned hotels? BY JOHN FRAZZINI 9 Funding & Resources EMS funding: A foot in two worlds BY MICHAEL PADDOCK 11 Responders Today BY PHILIP LEGGIERE Ready for more than a touch of the flu 24 The View From the Helm A Q&A with US Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen By David Silverberg 15 Nebraska Ave. Disaster and the disabled BY MICKEY McCARTER • DHS Roster US COAST GUARD By Philip Leggiere Reinvention Tension 19 Agency Spotlight BY HANK HOGAN For homeland security, a veteran approach 30 36 42 47 Guarding the nation’s coasts has never required as much flexibility and inventiveness as it does today. Can the Coast Guard keep up? MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS By Mickey McCarter 21 Market Monitor BY PHILIP FINNEGAN FLIR booms on border business No Longer Lost at Sea 22 Industry News • Industry Roster 60 Tools & Technology 64 Leadership Profile RESOURCES The tools for tracking seaborne assets are reaching new levels of capability—but the oceans still have their mysteries. INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION Brian Ahern Industrial Defender, Inc. Hardening Ground Zero— and Beyond By Liza Porteus Viana 62 Tradeshow circuit 62 Advertiser index 63 Coming in the next issue COVER PHOTO: Mark Abraham for Homeland Security Today The argument still rages over the best means of securing Manhattan’s vulnerable skyscrapers. HSToday’s Annual Homeland Security Education Directory A listing of courses, degrees and certificates in homeland security. Read more articles online at www.HSToday.us2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=4http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=4Researcher. Innovator. Genius. Patriot. 2009 Homeland Security Award Columbus Scholar. Jim Thomas Pacific Northwest National Laboratory AgustaWestland North America and the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation are proud to award Jim Thomas the $25,000 Homeland Security Award. Dubbed the “father of visual analytics” by his peers, Jim has spearheaded the creation of innovative visual tools and techniques that allow homeland security analysts to extract actionable information embedded within mountains of dense, impenetrable data. At AgustaWestland, maker of the world’s most advanced homeland security helicopters, we are proud to honor Jim’s achievements, which are being used at dozens of public safety agencies across the countr y. And we’re proud to continue working with the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation to honor the scientists and engineers who help make our world a safer place. Learn more at columbusfdn.org/homelandsecurity. columbusfdn.org/homelandsecurity2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=5http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=5Climate change, the Coast Guard and homeland security WITH THE COMING OF NOVEMBER, HURRICANE SEASON MERCIFULLY COMES TO AN END. AS OF THIS WRITING, NO MAJOR HURRICANES HAD HIT THE AMERICAN MAINLAND DURING THIS YEAR’S SEASON. But this year’s season is a pause, not a reprieve, from weather that has gotten wilder and less predictable over the years. By now there’s largely a scientific consensus: We’re in the grip of climate change, but in what direction that change will go and what its particular effects in different locations will be cannot be determined with any real reliability. Climate change is not usually viewed as a homeland security issue, but in fact it has been having its impact for some time. From 2004 to 2008, the United States was lashed by a series of savage storms: Four hurricanes whipped Florida in 2004; hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma ripped into the mainland in 2005 and then we had hurricanes Ike and Gustav last year. Its impact goes northward, as well. As has long been pointed out, the Arctic is the region that feels the impact of climate change, particularly warming, most acutely. In last month’s issue, we had a report from Alaska (“Real Yukon Gold”) describing a team from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) who deployed to three small, remote Alaskan towns. The reason? An unusually warm spring led to floods and ice flows that nearly destroyed the communities. The FEMA team had a short summer window in which to restore the damage and rebuild the towns. This month, in our issue devoted to the US Coast Guard, Commandant Adm. Thad Allen presents the results of a trip he took to the Arctic and explains the challenges that the service faces there. With more ice melting and more open water appearing as a result, the Coast Guard is facing mounting responsibilities to patrol the new seaways and perform its traditional missions in new waters. EDITOR’S LETTER BY DAVID SILVERBERG borders. In the past, people have migrated northward from Mexico in the wake of hurricanes that struck that country. Many of these migrants entered the United States illegally and stayed there. In the future, as more hurricanes and drought strike Mexico and its southern neighbors, more people will likely migrate northward simply for survival and not just for economic reasons. These kinds of migrations won’t just occur in the western hemisphere. Border security around the world will become more demanding than at present as climatic factors drive people in new directions regardless of international boundaries. As security at land borders becomes tighter and illegal land immigration is reduced, the seas will become the highways for both human and material contraband. This is already happening around the United States, especially given the battle between the Mexican government, the narco-cartels and the newly reinforced US borders. It will provide yet another challenge for the Coast Guard to tackle. Maritime awareness and security: As Allen pointed out in our interview, glacial melting in Alaska is exposing new waters that must be secured. But in addition to that, there are national sovereignty issues that are coming to the fore with the spread of open water where once there was pack ice. Already, Russia has sent a submarine to plant a flag on the seabed beneath the North Pole. It was not an idle gesture—new resources and minerals are becoming evident as the ice recedes. The Coast Guard, along with the US Navy, will be challenged to assert American sovereignty where appropriate. Epidemics and pandemics: This year the H1N1 flu strain broke out in Mexico in April and by June had been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. In the future, changes in climate may lead to new outbreaks of new diseases, especially as populations migrate. As the military arm of the Department of Homeland Security and the first line of defense, law enforcement and rescue in littoral waters, the Coast Guard will be deeply involved in meeting these 2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=6http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=6UPDATES & RESPONSES Saudi suicide bomber attempts novel assassination method Nayef was physically close to Nayef. A signal was sent either through that cellphone or from another source, detonating the charge in Asiri’s body. In a subsequent broadcast on Saudi television, King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, the prince’s uncle, visited him in the hospital. Asked how the bomber could have gotten so close, Nayef told the king that he had waived any security checks of Asiri’s person. “It was a mistake,“ Nayef said. In claiming responsibility for the attack, AQAP stated “…Abdullah Hassan Taleh Al Asiri, who was on the list of 85 wanted persons, was able, with the help of God, to enter Nayef’s palace as he was among his guards and detonate an explosive device. No one will be able to know the type of this device or the way it was detonated. Al Asiri managed to pass all the security checkpoints in Najran and Jeddah airports and was transported on board Mohammed bin Nayef’s private plane.” HSToday PHONE: ™ P.O. Box 9789, McLean, Va. 22101-3611 800-503-6506 FAX: 866-503-5758 WWW.HSToday.US ON AUG. 28, A SUICIDE BOMBER ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE SAUDI PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN NAYEF , THE DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER IN CHARGE OF SAUDI ARABIA’S COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS, USING EXPLOSIVES HIDDEN IN HIS BODY. NAYEF SUSTAINED ONLY MINOR INJURIES. (The attempted assassination was reported in the Oct. 1 Kimery Report, available online at www. hstoday.us/content/view/10451/ 150/. Senior Reporter Anthony Kimery also reported on exotic terrorist techniques in the article, “Making Black Magic” in the August 2008 edition of Homeland Security Today.) The would-be assassin, Abdullah Hassan Tali’ Al Asiri, 23, secreted about 100 grams to 1 pound of explosives in his rectum. Asiri was number 40 on a list of 85 wanted Saudi militants from the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorist organization. He told Saudi authorities that he had renounced terrorism and Al Qaeda, that there were other terrorists similarly interested and requested a meeting with Nayef to repent and be accepted into the kingdom’s reformed terrorist amnesty program. Nayef has long had a policy of enticing extremists out of the Al Qaeda fold and welcoming them back into mainstream Saudi society as long as they provide information and do no further harm. Former terrorists treated this way have been given cars, houses and jobs and most live peacefully in the kingdom. Asiri was flown to Nayef in Jeddah from the city of Najran on board the prince’s private airplane and ushered through layers of guards to the meeting, which occurred at the end of Ramadan, a traditional time of repentance and reflection. PUBLISHER Kimberley S. 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As critical infrastructure facilities such as seaports, embassies, military bases and other domestic and international targets expand protection and harden their access points, terrorists have moved away from them and have centered their attention on hotels, particularly Westernowned hotels, which have emerged as the new “soft” targets. Hotels have been attacked in Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia, Afghanistan and India, as well as the deadly attack at the Pearl Continental in Peshawar, Pakistan, and the latest dual attacks at the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in Indonesia. REUTERS/ADREES LATIF BY JOHN FRAZZINI FRONT LINES Government protection In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formed. One of the initial functions of DHS was to determine and define critical assets – those infrastructure and commerce elements vital to protecting the movement of commerce, goods and services for the people of the United States. These critical assets include seaports, airports, public transportation, nuclear facilities and our nation’s borders. In addition, separate mandates and resources were made available to protect our country’s foreign-deployed military and State Department personnel. These efforts have served to provide risk assessment expertise, regulations and additional security that have managed to prevent another major attack—at least on domestic soil. Unfortunately, this has also served to move the fight to a different playing field — the hotel industry abroad. Devoid of any government support, including risk assessment and funding, the hotel industry is fighting a losing battle against a formidable enemy. Blindly protecting its American clientele to the best of its ability with very limited resources, our hotel industry wages a losing battle. The requirement for secure and safe lodging is no different and no less vital to our nation’s commerce than is the ability to travel safely on a major airline. Likewise, the impact on commerce— should no safe lodging be available—will be just as severe. Nine years after 9/11, it is time for DHS, State Department and other US government agencies and the US government to re-examine the definition of our critical infrastructure and “soft target” designations. Our citizens have the right to safe lodging, just as much as they have the right to safe airports, seaports and public transportation. It is only a matter of time before the incidents occurring at Western-owned hotels abroad begin to occur on US soil. Now is the time to provide the government-security expertise, guidance and funding assistance to ensure that our citizens can continue to travel anywhere in the world without fear. HST JOHN FRAZZINI, a former Secret Service agent, is president of BRS Labs, a software development company based in Houston, Texas. Rescue workers at the site of the Pearl Continental Hotel bombing in Peshawar in June. The new targets Attractive as targets, hotels serve a vital tourism function in many cities and are sometimes considered as adjunct embassies. Likewise, international Westernowned hotels serve as a vital cog in the wheel of commerce and capitalism, providing lodging for international business travelers, politicians, celebrities and military and embassy personnel. In the case of the attack against the Marriott in Islamabad, the bomber attacked the hotel only after tight security prevented him from reaching Parliament or the prime minister’s office. Hotel business models demand openness and accessibility for visitors and guests, making “embassy tight” security very difficult but nonetheless the US government can take its vast counterterrorism experience and put it to use to assist these hotels. A renowned terrorism expert, Rohan Gunaratna, commented in a report on the bombing of the Islamabad Ma2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=10http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=106833257,1*',6$67(55(63216( $337,6,6&200,77(' )URPRXUVXSSRUWRIWKH)(0$'LVDVWHU$VVLVWDQFH,PSURYHPHQW3URJUDP'$,3WRRXU LQQRYDWLYHLQIRUPDWLRQVHFXULW\DQGFORXGFRPSXWLQJVROXWLRQVWKH$SSWLVWHDPLVFRPPLWWHG WRKHOSLQJ'+6PDLQWDLQWKHLUSUHSDUHGQHVVDQGUHVSRQVLYHQHVVWRWKHQHHGVRIRXUQDWLRQ 3529(175867('6(&85(2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=11http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=11EMS funding: A foot in two worlds BY MICHAEL PADDOCK FROM A FUNDING STANDPOINT OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (EMS) AGENCIES HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH A FOOT IN TWO WORLDS. On the one side, EMS agencies are the first responders of healthcare, responsible for providing medical services and collecting and sharing health records information, just like any other healthcare provider. On the other side, they are emergency management service providers, working alongside police and fire departments to prepare for, and respond to, the range of man-made and non-man-made disasters, including serving a critical role in every conceivable chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive incident. ing for independent EMS agencies. Unfortunately, while the funding for independents is most broad, it is also not that deep, nor is it particularly reliable. The steady stream of funding tends to be more concentrated among EMS outfits that align more closely with medical or emergency management services. Those agencies that are affiliated with hospitals or are actually part of a hospital’s emergency department are most likely to receive funds through HHS’ Health IT funding initiative. Emergency medical services providers are included in the definition of healthcare provider under Title XXX of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. As such, EMS FUNDING & RESOURCES Firefighting affiliations EMS providers that are affiliated with fire departments may receive funds through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFGP), but because of limitations on applicants in the AFGP guidelines, EMS activities have to be funded either as part of a broader department-wide initiative or a regional project, or else prioritized as the project of choice for the applying department that year. In any case, it’s not exactly straightforward for these agencies. For these departments, AFGP and MMRS funds, inasmuch as they can stretch to include local EMS projects, along with ongoing fire department revenues, will remain their primary funding sources. Some states have attempted to compensate for the ambiguous and often insufficient funding options provided by the federal government by targeting their limited resources to a specific need in the state. Iowa, for example, funds a program of $10,000 mini-grants to support EMS training initiatives. The state of Texas puts a million dollars per year into a grant program for local EMS projects, with most awards under $40,000. These stop gap efforts, while laudable, are themselves subject to state-by-state implementation and the budget variability that continues to plague states across the country. It is important for EMS agencies to cast a wide net in their search for funding. New programs that can support the various EMS functions, however they are organized, are being released at the federal, state and local levels from a wide range of agencies that include the federal Departments of Agriculture, Education, HHS and DHS. Going beyond the funding sources that may have supported a particular EMS project in the past will help these essential providers wring as much value as possible from every grant program that emerges, wherever it may appear. HST Confusing funding sources Funding sources for EMS are diffuse and ambiguous. Part of the reason for this is due to the very variety of EMS provider configurations. While some are connected directly to hospitals—in some cases are even considered part of a hospital’s emergency department—others are controlled by fire departments, while still others are independent, non-profit or for-profit providers of service. In all, these variations open up a wide range of grant programs, but since no one national program connects directly with EMS, funding for EMS tends to be more specific to the type of project, type of agency and the location of the agency’s service area. Independent EMS agencies have had access to the widest variety of funding sources, including 2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=12http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=12Let your voice be heard. Out here, your communications system has to work. It starts with a company that really listens to your needs and can respond with an end-to-end solution. Because you rely on your mission-critical communications, you need a technology partner you can rely on. At Harris RF Communications, we understand the complexity of applying the right communications model to meet all of your needs— voice, data, situational awareness, and more. That’s why we offer a complete portfolio of solutions—everything from IP-based networks, to information security, to multiband radios. And drawing on our vast experience partnering with public safety and military agencies, we know how to listen so we can deliver the solution that works best for you. Let your voice be heard. Talk with us. www.harrispublicsafety.com/HST2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=13http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=13RESPONDERS TODAY ORLANDO, FLA. the anthrax scare, we’ve been among that group. We haven’t had as much experience [as lead agency] as others, but we’re not unfamiliar with it and have prepared.” Local public education officials are also taking on more of a prevention role. Typically used as safe havens during and after a storm, public schools are potential launch pads for the virus. That’s why school health personnel have been at the table from the beginning, including a tabletop exercise prior to the opening of schools. "We started working on this a long time ago, and we’re well prepared," said Katherine Marsh, spokeswoman for Orange County Public Schools, home to 168,000 students. Nearby Osceola County, home to Disney World, adds another 50,000 more. Local law enforcement and emergency response personnel, who provide the initial wave of response during other types of natural calamity, are playing a supportive role. Their job is to help public health officials do theirs while facilitating communication between the counties, law enforcement jurisdictions, the schools and the region’s hospitality industry, its major employer. “We’re the glue that keeps all the parts sticking together,” Cook said. Priorities include supporting operations like vaccine procurement and triage at area hospitals. The goal is to divert potential H1N1 carriers from contact with non-infected patients and the caregivers who attend them. “Ideally, what we try to do is work with the hospitals and intercept people who are going in with flu-like symptoms,” said Dave Casto, Osceola County emergency management director. “We want to get them treated somewhere outside the hospital and not let them mingle with the [emergency room] department.” Since August, participants have held weekly meetings as they monitor the spread of the virus and search for clusters of cases, whether in a particular school, church, business or anywhere else people congregate. Meanwhile, state emergency management officials are watching from afar and making sure incident command structures are in place, resources are available and everyone is on the same page. “We keep the lines of communication November 2009 ORLANDO CVB An overview of International Drive— Orlando's destination for attractions, shopping, dining, entertainment, lodging and more. Ready for more than a touch of the flu BY MICHAEL PELTIER, TALLAHASSEE CORRESPONDENT IT’S OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE “LAND OF THE MOUSE,” BUT EMERGENCY RESPONDERS RESIDING IN THIS CENTRAL FLORIDA TOURIST MECCA HAVE ANOTHER BARNYARD ANIMAL ON THEIR MINDS. Swine. Flu, that is. And the international playland isn’t sitting back idly as it lies in wait should the H1N1 virus decide to wreak havoc on the already recession-strapped region during its critical holiday vacation season. This is certainly no Mickey Mouse challenge. Its official population may be less than 300,000, but Orlando and the surrounding area includes 3 million residents and plays host to 51 million tourists a year from 175 countries. That translates into a lot of person-toperson contact, a necessary and potentially deadly ingredient for the spread of flu. With worst case scenarios calling for 30 percent to 50 percent absentee rates, public health officials within the region have mapped out contingencies to respond in the event of a massive outbreak that would require more than just a friendly reminder to wash your hands and cough into your sleeve. Plans for mass vaccinations, public outreach and operating critical public services with a flu-depleted staff are in place and have been rehearsed. Communication between local, state and federal responders is continuous as responders track an adversary more elusive than most. “The biggest thing with H1N1 is that there are so many unknowns,” Preston Cook, executive director of the Orange County office of emergency management in Orlando, told Homeland Security Today. “With a hurricane, there is a beginning and middle and an end. With this, you don2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=14http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=14RESPONDERS TODAY open from the federal level to our shareholders,” said Mike Stone, spokesman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, located 250 miles away in Tallahassee. “We’ll also be available to help fill in where we’re needed or coordinate support from other areas if that’s needed.” industry has taken matters into its own hands to prepare for the worst, while hoping for the best, a mantra that has been reinforced by past brushes with hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters, both natural and man-made. “For several years, a multi-disciplinary team of leaders from operations, safety, health services, maintenance, human resources and communications has met periodically to address public health concerns,” said Disney spokeswoman Andrea Finger. “H1N1 is just one of the topics that this team has focused on.” The benefits of such communication is that public responders have a much better picture of any potential hotspots as H1N1 is known to develop in pockets first and then become more widespread. The extra eyes and ears on the ground are invaluable. “Fortunately, all of our private partners play very well with us,” Cook said. “They are part of our emergency response team.” A major focus for public responders has been how to fill potential voids should an outbreak hit a particular business or industry. While larger companies have more elaborate response systems, small business owners typically do not. It’s those smaller operators that are the focus of outreach efforts. “Everyone has received the message about washing and isolation,” Casto said. “We’re starting to get questions about what to do when you lose 20 percent to 30 percent of your workforce. That is a major impact on any business or industry.” Relying on cooperation A striking characteristic of the Orlando area is the interplay between public and private response efforts. Along with local emergency management services, county health departments and state assets, the region is home to private employers for whom public health issues have always been at the forefront. World-renowned destinations like Universal Studios and Walt Disney World didn’t sit back and hope that public health authorities would take care of them—-and for good reason. Disney employs 50,000 workers during peak vacation season and accommodates 35 million guests at its Orlando theme parks every year. Universal Studies plays host to more than 6 million visitors from around the globe, while Sea World attendance tops 5 million. With so much at stake, the hospitality Preparation and infrastructure While the threat is unique, the infrastructure needed to respond is not. Assembled after Hurricane Andrew revealed the state’s shortcomings in 1992, state lawmakers demanded, and emergency managers created, a regional response system. It has since been tested by hurricanes, floods, wildfires and biological threats. Local officials are confident the systems they have put in place work and will respond effectively to any outbreak, however severe. “It’s a very serious thing, and our partners understand,” said Orange County’s Cook. “There is not a panic out there. They are communicating. They’re doing what they need to be doing. They are ready to respond.” HST Are all eyes on you? Collapsible & Reusable Containers Save Money & Resources! Reduce Waste & Damage! Ergonomic! Containers When & Where You Need Them Ship Flat! Store Flat! Stack Flat! Unique panel design and easy snap-on fasteners provide ultimate strength and durability. Designed to our customer’s specifications! Find out who’s viewing your ad Homeland Security Today is the ONLY publication in the HS arena that contracts with Readex Research to provide a free advertising “snapshot” of how our readers react to your ad. 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To save time, save resources, and save lives. www.gdc4s.com/USCG Please visit us at the NDIA USCG Innovation Expo, Booth #1107 © 2009 General Dynamics. All rights reserved. EDGE is a registered trademark of General Dynamics C4 Systems.2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=17http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=17NEBRASKA AVENUE When FEMA sent emergency shelters to Greensburg, Kans., in the wake of its 2007 tornado, it included shelters like these built to accommodate the disabled with ramps and other features to provide easy access. Disaster and the disabled BY MICKEY McCARTER, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT WHEN IT COMES TO COPING WITH DISASTERS, PLANNING IS EVERYTHING—BUT THOSE PLANS TEND TO BE WRITTEN WITH ONLY FUNCTIONAL ADULTS WITH HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONS AND DRIVERS’ LICENSES IN MIND. EVERYONE ELSE IS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. “Let’s write plans that actually reflect the communities we live in. There are children; there are people with disabilities; there are frail elderly. Let’s quit putting those populations in a special box that we’ll get to after the plan is written and let’s do this from the beginning,” W. Craig Fugate, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told the Senate Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery on Aug. 4. Generally, emergency managers only look at special needs populations after they’ve completed their main plans, and then they tend to do so “on the fly”—creating confusion or difficulties for the people requiring the assistance. But Fugate has begun an effort to change all that by developing plans that take special needs into account in advance. FEMA plans to start releasing those plans in the last weeks of 2009 tive to emergency management. “What we tell people to do in emergencies makes the assumption that they can see, hear, walk, run and those things. If you can’t do those things, the assumption doesn’t work,” Pound said. Pound pointed to some helpful things FEMA has done for special needs populations in the past, such as providing a federal grant to The Arc of the United States (formerly the Association for Retarded Citizens) to harden its shelter facilities. But planning guides for people with disabilities and special needs would go much further and provide state and local officials with necessary formal guidance on how to proceed when working with those populations, Pound remarked. FEMA and other emergency management agencies have been working to develop new plans with advocacy organizations that already have experience on working with special needs populations. San Mateo, Calif., for example, reached out to special needs organizations to discover their strengths for assisting special needs populations. One organization had a very well developed phone tree that could be used to quickly contact its members. The members, in turn, expected to receive calls from that organization and trusted its information. “They helped participate in terms of communicating with people before, during and after disasters. It took that preplanning to know who is in that community,” Pound commented. Preplanning also reveals areas that might require special attention. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) maintains a list of government apartments that are handicapped accessible. These apartments house a large number of special needs people, who could require extra attention in a disaster. Community planners should reach out and visit those people to minimize the amount of help they would require during and after a disaster. “Emergency offices are minimally funded. They figure they can’t take on this because it’s too big a problem. But if they do take it on, they have to spend less when a disaster strikes,” Pound said. LEIF SKOOGFORS/FEMA Functional needs Another population of concern is people with “functional needs.” These are people who can live independently in their own homes, but may require specific attention when disasters force them to leave those homes. Pound particularly applauded work underway at FEMA to provide functional needs shelter guidance. FEMA awarded a contract to Texas-based BCFS Health and Human Services to help develop that guidance, scheduled for release on Nov. 15. “One of the big pieces of operational planning the nation is lacking is in functional needs support sys2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=18http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=18NEBRASKA AVENUE in the American with Disabilities Act (Public Law 101-336). Some special needs people require wider doors than normal to enter a shelter, for example. Functional shelters also must have more space between cots to accommodate wheelchairs. Once BCFS completes its work on the Functional Needs Shelter System, it will turn its attention to national training sessions with federal, state and local emergency managers on sheltering for special needs populations. “You have to write plans not only for the New York cities and the Miamis but for the small community managers who may not think of these things. They don’t necessarily have well refined plans,” Piferrer said. BCFS has particular experience in reintegrating special needs populations back into their communities once a disaster has passed, which is particularly important to providing them with disaster assistance, according to Piferrer. “Shelters are often a gymnasium with cots. They are meant to be temporary. It’s sometimes difficult to make anybody DHS ROSTER In September: Erroll Southers was nominated to be assistant secretary for TSA. …Alan Bersin, DHS assistant secretary for international affairs and special representative for border affairs, was nominated to be CBP Commissioner. …TSA appointed David Wray the federal security director for the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. …CBP appointed Elizabeth Holden deputy director for the SBI Program Executive Office. …Dora Schriro resigned as director of ICE’s Office of Detention Policy and Planning to become commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction. …TSA appointed Michael Novak deputy assistant administrator and deputy director for the Office of Law Enforcement and the Federal Air Marshal Service. …Richard Cramer, a former ICE attaché in Guadalajara, Mexico, was arrested and accused of working with Mexican drug cartels. …CBP appointed Tracy Thorpe as port director for the Port of Albuquerque, NM. groups to discover their emergency needs. Since that time, they have been unusually well prepared for hurricanes and other catastrophes, according to the National Council on Disability. FEMA has been working with HUD, the Department of Health and Human Services, other agencies at the Department of Homeland Security and special needs advocacy groups to craft its plans, sources tell Homeland Security Today, so it certainly seems that FEMA is following the same model of gathering expertise on special needs populations before the storm instead of as an afterthought. HST comfortable in a shelter,” she observed. Analysis The National Response Framework recognizes that special needs populations may require additional assistance above and beyond the general public, but Fugate’s commitment to produce emergency plans that consider their needs from the very beginning adds a whole new level to fulfilling emergency management obligations to those people. 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ADT, the ADT logo, ADT Always There and 1-800-ADT-ASAP are registered trademarks of ADT Services, AG, and are used under license.2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=20http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=202009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=21http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=21For homeland security, a veteran approach BY HANK HOGAN, IT CORRESPONDENT AT THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (VA), THE PRIMARY MISSION IS TO SERVE AMERICA’S VETERANS, AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT THE VA DOESN’T HAVE A ROLE IN HOMELAND SECURITY. INDEED, THE VA’S FUNCTIONS IN THIS AREA CAN BE QUITE EXTENSIVE, RANGING FROM EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT TO BASIC RESEARCH. Take the first of those three. José Riojas, assistant secretary for operations, security and preparedness for the VA, noted that the agency works closely with federal, state and local authorities in disaster preparation. The goal is to be ready for problems regardless of their origin as either an act of God or man, he told Homeland Security Today. “Our focus is on both. It’s not limited to man-made. It’s not limited to natural disasters, such as Katrina or a fire or something like that. It’s more holistic.” DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS/LAMEL HINTON VETERANS AFFAIRS AGENCY SPOTLIGHT Britain’s Prince Harry greets wounded US veterans. A disaster response resource The VA runs a large health care organization, with a budget in 2009 of $43.5 billion for that part of its charter. Most of the rest of the VA’s $96.9 billion funding goes into veteran’s benefits, to the tune of $46.9 billion. That substantial healthcare spending translates into care at more than 1,400 sites throughout the country and a staff of 235,000. Also, more than 65 percent of all physicians in the United States today have trained in VA facilities. During a disaster, these facilities will continue to serve area veterans as needed and will also provide support to affected communities, said Riojas. In the case of non-veterans, this support will be done with the US Department of Health and Human Services in the lead. Because it is likely to have hospitals, clinics and other facilities in the area, the VA will provide the healthcare equivalent of boots on the ground. Thus, when people stream out of a devastated area, nearby VA sites are likely to be among the first treatment centers. Those efforts will make use of technology the VA has implemented. For example, the VA, working with the Department of Defense (DoD), has instituted lifetime electronic medical records. Consequently, those joining the military no longer have a trail of paper medical records following them. Instead, they have a multimedia, online patient record that integrates the traditional medical chart with X-rays, pathology slides, videos, scanned documents, endoscopy results and other medical images. The VA maintains redundancy in its data centers to prevent the loss of this critical information in the event of a disaster. Currently, such records are not available to the public at large. However, if and when electronic medical records are implemented as part of healthcare reform, an approach similar to that taken by the VA and DoD may form the basis for the new technology. recommendations regarding which resources should be positioned where to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of any response. While many of those proposals will involve only the VA, some may have a wider impact. The same geographic spread that makes the VA so valuable in the event of an emergency also makes it a potentially attractive target for terrorism. Often, the department’s footprint is the largest that the federal government has in an area. For that reason, the VA has its own police force and works with local law enforcement. Additionally, it offers training to other federal agencies, acting as a security resource. The VA also is attempting to take in the bigger picture by assessing potential problems and, hopefully, preventing them before they become actual ones. Finding such information is a challenge, as is filtering it for analysis. The latter has to be done so that what’s important is highlighted and not lost in a welter of information, said Riojas. “That’s as much a science as it is an art.” Promising research VA actions 2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=22http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=22Now government employees can keep it all small and secure. The Palm Pre could be ® ™ considered the world’s tiniest briefcase. 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Other marks are the property of their respective owners. ® Pre™ The Palm2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=23http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=23MARKET MONITOR FLIR booms on border business BY PHILIP FINNEGAN THE MANAGEMENT OF FLIR SYSTEMS, WILSONVILLE, ORE., IS PUTTING A HIGH PRIORITY ON INCREASING THE COMPANY’S HOMELAND SECURITY BUSINESS BOTH IN THE UNITED STATES AND OVERSEAS. FLIR managers see strong potential for growth both in the United States and overseas, Andy Teich, president of FLIR’s Commercial Vision Systems division, said in an interview with Homeland Security Today. That led the company to create the division in 2006, in part to foster its homeland security work. The unit already does $50 million in annual homeland security sales to agencies like Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It also does a considerable amount of work for the US Coast Guard that is not included in that figure. About half of the division’s work is in the United States, and the remainder is in a booming international border security market, particularly in Europe and the Middle East, Teich said. In July, the company got an initial $2.4 million order from EADS Deutschland (the European Aeronautics Defence and Space Co.) for long-range HRC Multi-Sensor Systems to be used in the Saudi Border Development Program. Earlier this year, FLIR sold $12.8 million of advanced RECON III handheld infrared cameras for use in long-range surveillance and security missions in Saudi Arabia. A United Arab Emirates contract for $34 million worth of Star SAFIRE III stabilized multi-sensor systems for use in border surveillance and infrastructure protection is the company’s largest international sale to date. In addition, FLIR has sold a considerable number of sensors in Eastern Europe to protect the new borders of the European Union. I N ADDITION TO EXPANDING ITS INTERNATIONAL MARKET SHARE AND BUILDING ON ITS COAST GUARD STRENGTH, FLIR’S GROWTH STRATEGY FOR HOMELAND SECURITY INCLUDES HEAVY SPENDING ON RESEARCH TO DEVELOP NEW PRODUCTS. $50 million to $60 million to FLIR. In addition, FLIR is developing products geared specifically for the homeland security market. In July, the Commercial Vision Systems division announced the launch of its new H-Series line of handheld law enforcement thermal imaging cameras, which the company states have four times the resolution of competing units. FLIR now is in active discussions with CBP about providing cameras to the agency. Acquisition growth Shipboard Infrared Vision Sensor System to provide sensors for Coast Guard vessels and the Electro Optical Sensor System, which is installed on HH-60 and HH65 helicopters. In addition to expanding its international market share and building on its Coast Guard strength, FLIR’s growth strategy for homeland security includes heavy spending on research to develop new products. The company spent 8.4 percent of revenues on research and development in 2008, a very high figure for a company doing defense and homeland security work. Moreover, its research funding has grown by 20 percent, compounded annually from 2005 to 2008. That research provides technology that can be moved between military and homeland security applications. For example, FLIR has extensive experience in providing its Star Safire under the Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment (RAID) program in Iraq. Its cameras are held atop 50- to 100-foot poles to protect forward bases from insurgents. FLIR has held discussions about possibly applying similar technology to the Secure Border Initiative Network (SBInet) secure border program, potentially a $250 million to $300 million program for FLIR if adopted. This would be an upgrade of the program’s current technology. FLIR is currently providing SBInet’s long-range thermal cameras, earning about $4 million to date. If the existing cameras are used by the program, as now envisaged, the program would be worth FLIR also made a string of acquisitions that helped develop its homeland security business, both by adding new technologies and increasing its market coverage. It remains interested in additional acquisitions, Teich said. Most re2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=24http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=24HOMELAND SEC INDUSTRY NEWS INDUSTRY ROSTER Awarepoint has appointed Dennis O’Leary as its chief strategy officer. … Claudemir Martins has been hired as Samsung Techwin’s application engineer for the South Cone region of Latin America. … Textron Systems has named Ian Walsh chief innovation officer and Tom McNamara as chief technology officer. … Dennis Schrader has joined the board of directors of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism. … Alan Terry has been named interim president and chief executive officer of Law Enforcement Associates Corp. … ManTech International Corp. has appointed Carlos Echalar as its executive vice president of human resources. … KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc. has appointed Martin Horn to head its Correctional Services Group and appointed Michael Chertoff to serve on its board of directors. … Robert Sengstaken Jr. has been selected as vice president of engineering for Walleye Technologies. … Leslie Winik has been tapped as vice president of business development for Sapient Government Services. … MS Tech has appointed Nathan Steinberg to its board of directors. … A-T Solutions has made Kevin Lutz its executive vice president. US COAST GUARD 22 New system projects warning signs in air Developed under a contract with the US Coast Guard, Alion Science and Technology, McLean, Va., has produced the Extended Range Unambiguous Warning System, which allows security forces to project a billboard-sized warning sign or graphical image in the air 100 feet off the bow of an oncoming vessel or 100 feet away from an approaching vehicle. The security force using the system fires shells containing extremely fine salt dust that serves as a rear projection screen. An extremely bright projector using a custom lens and mirror system then displays the image on the dust. To keep the graphical warning visible longer, multiple shells can be fired. The salt dust falls harmlessly into the ocean or on the ground. The effect of the signage is heightened at night. The technology is quick to deploy and maintain and relies on existing military launchers and shells, lowering costs. (Source: Alion) Puget Sound exercise tests maritime nuclear, radiological detection US Coast Guard personnel (Sector Seattle, Group Port Angeles, Coast Guard Auxiliary), along with more than 300 trained maritime law enforcement and first responder personnel from federal, state, local and tribal agencies, conducted nonintrusive small vessel radiological screenings at three Puget Sound security zones during the week of Sept. 21. The operational maritime exercise was part of a pilot demonstration funded by the Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to evaluate radiation detection sensors and operational protocols for small vessels. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., coordinated activities with the Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection and the other agencies for the twoday event. Team members used radiation detection equipment ranging from portable handheld sensors to boat-mounted systems. Puget Sound was selected for the pilot demonstration because it is home to the third largest commercial and naval port in the United States and increased boat traffic is anticipated during the Winter Olympics games to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2010. (Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) November 2009 | Homeland Security Today Magazine This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=25http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=25URITY HOMELAN New night vision technology gets high rating The National Tactical Officer’s Association has completed its review and testing of the ATN 6015-WPT Night Vision Monocular by American Technologies Network Corp. (ATN), South San Francisco, Calif., a manufacturer of precision optics, and gave it an overall score of 4.9 out of a possible 5 in their Member Tested and Recommended Program ratings. The ATN 6015-WPT monocular is based on ATN’s PVS-14 system used by the US military. It can be hand held, head or helmetmounted for hands-free usage and adapted to be used with cameras or camcorders. The system also features ATN’s white phosphor technology, providing the viewer with a crisp black-and-white image instead of the green glowing image in traditional night vision devices. This new technology allows for a clearer image with more detail and greater depth perception. (Source: ATN) FDNY launches new fireboat to honor those lost on 9/11 The Marine Division of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) launched its newest fireboat, Three Forty Three, on Sept. 11 in a ceremony at the Eastern Shipbuilding Group shipyard in Panama City, Fla. The ship is named in honor of all FDNY members killed in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and will be stationed in Manhattan. A second ship currently under construction, Fire Fighter II, will be assigned to Staten Island. Both boats were funded in large part by more than $40 million in grants from the Department of Homeland Security. Eastern Shipbuilding Group was awarded the contract for detailed design and construction of the ships on Dec. 28, 2007. The fireboat’s original design is from naval architectural firm Robert Allan Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia. The 140-foot, 500-ton, $27 million Three Forty Three will be the country’s largest fireboat with a maximum speed of 18 knots. It can pump 50,000 gallons of water per minute, nearly 30,000 gallons more than its predecessor. (Source: FDNY) Port of Miami upgrades surveillance system The Port of Miami, Fla., has selected the NiceVision Net IP video surveillance solution by NICE Systems, Ra’anana, Israel, an analytics solutions provider, to upgrade its security system. When fully implemented, the NiceVision solution will upgrade the port’s current analog video surveillance system and help secure all of the port’s facilities, parking garages, commercial cargo and passenger cruise terminals. Using the system, port officials will be able to remotely and centrally monitor and manage hundreds of pre-existing analog cameras, along with newly installed Internet protocol video surveillance cameras. (Source: NICE Systems) Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters HSToday Magazine | November 2009 232009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=26http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=26PHOTOS BY MARK ABRAHAM 24 November 2009 | Homeland Security Today Magazine This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=27http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=27The View from theHelm Q & A WITH USCG COMMANDANT ADM. THAD ALLEN By D A V I D S I L V E R B E R G ADM. THAD ALLEN HASN’T JUST NAVIGATED DEMANDING SEAS—HE’S NAVIGATED DEMANDING POLITICS. In 38 years of Coast Guard service at both sea and on land, he experienced the transfer of the service to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003 and oversaw its operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005—as well as taking overall command for response and recovery as principal federal official. Under his leadership, the Coast Guard emerged from the Katrina debacle as the only federal agency with an enhanced reputation. In May 2006, he became the Coast Guard’s 23rd commandant. This January, Allen had new seas to navigate when a new administration and a new secretary of DHS took office. With 11 regular missions, the Coast Guard has always faced varied and demanding issues. Now, with the homeland security mission, the Deepwater program, which is intended to provide the Coast Guard with all new vessels and aircraft, climate change, immigration and law enforcement, it confronts new and emerging challenges. Homeland Security Today Editor David Silverberg sat down with Allen in August to tour the Coast Guard’s horizon. What follow are excerpts from that interview. To read the entire transcript, go to www.HSToday.us and the “Putting it in Perspective” column. Homeland Security Today Magazine | November 2009 Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters 252009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=28http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=28A VIEW FROM THE HELM The Obama administration What changes, if any, have there been under the new administration and under Secretary Napolitano for the Coast Guard? How have they affected the mission or have they changed it at all? If I were to give you a general observation, having a governor as a secretary has brought a focus on what I would call integrated concepts of homeland security related to all the different levels of government and what federalism really means, if you will. She has a very good understanding of the responsibilities of being a governor, the governor of a state on the southwest border. While they don’t have hurricanes, they certainly have wildfires and other things that require them to interact with FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency]. You’re from that area. I’m from Tucson, yes. She was my governor. So what I think that you see is a pretty comprehensive view of the roles of government and the responsibilities of different levels of government clear down to what citizens ought to be doing in terms of preparedness and things like that. And I think that a hallmark of her tenure so far has been a sense of collaboration with governors in trying to understand the local implications of federal decisions. If I were to give you an overarching theme, it is probably that. support and then product line management of these assets over their lifecycle. Part of what we’re doing in the Coast Guard through our modernization efforts is restructuring how we do maintenance and logistics and acquisition so that they’re all under one single officer in the Coast Guard who is accountable for the entire cycle. It was kind of broken down before into a Deepwater program office, and we lost a lot of continuity and synchronization that needed to take place inside the service. With the creation of a deputy commandant for mission support, acquisition, maintenance and logistics, personnel will be under the same three-star officer. It will be single point of accountability under that officer. That was not present before in the Coast Guard. You were building that acquisition corps, not only around Deepwater but around everything. We took our existing acquisition office that was doing everything other than Deepwater and we took Deepwater and we put them together to create a brand new acquisition organization and structure. We actually came up with what we called a blueprint for acquisition reform, and we’re on our third version of that. We keep refining it each year and fine tuning our organizational structure, how we’re handling human resources, how we’re hiring people, the relationship between the people who are actually acquiring the assets and the people who have to maintain them. Those things are all being defined, continually refined and improved. We think we’re in a very good place now from where we were three years ago. Can you elaborate a little on the status of that acquisition corps? Sure. A good example is that under the Deepwater program we attempted to extend the length of our 110-foot patrol boats as a way to maintain them in service because we couldn’t build all the fleet out at once. But we had significant structural problems with that, which caused us to remove eight of them from service. I removed them permanently, and, basically, we terminated that part of the program. Because of that we created a hole in Coast Guard capabilities because we had taken eight patrol boats that were previously being used and took them out of service. In the short term, we have taken the remaining patrol boats to South Florida and double-crewed them with the crews from those patrol boats that were laid up. But for the long term, we need to move very quickly with the patrol boat acquisition. And with the recently awarded fast response cutter contract award, we will in the next 12 to 18 months deliver the first ship of our new patrol boat fleet. We did that outside the Integrated Coast Guard Systems contractual relationship and w2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=29http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=29“ MY NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IS TO CONTINUE TO MODERNIZE THE COAST GUARD TO MAKE IT A LITTLE MORE CHANGE-CENTRIC, A LITTLE MORE FLEXIBLE AND AGILE TO CHANGES AND COMMAND SIGNALS.” In other words, we have certain jurisdictional authorities in the territorial sea in the exclusive economic zone, and to the extent that there is water present there now, those authorities exist. So for the past three years, we have moved resources up north of the Bering Straits, to Nome and to Point Barrow, to be available for operations and to test the capabilities of our platforms there, because we have not traditionally operated up there extensively and we’re trying to do an assessment of how good our current platforms—aircraft, boats, cutters—operate up there for the purpose of identifying future requirements and to see if we have to come up with something else. I’ve found a couple of things up there that were cause for concern for sustaining future operations that should inform our decisions in the next couple of years about what kinds of equipment we buy. Specifically, let’s take Point Barrow, the North Slope there. It is very, very difficult for us to launch and recover small boats up there. They don’t have traditional boat ramps, as we know it, and we’ve had to come up with things like laying temporary boat ramps across the beachhead to launch boats. Once the boats have been launched, they’re operating sometimes in places where there is ice out there, and our small boats aren’t that ice- Guard now and, in my view, is in very capable hands. Climate change and Arctic operations What kinds of challenges will climate change present to your successors in the longer term? I think in general we see the Arctic as a leading indicator. I think the implications of climate change will be visible there before they’re visible other places, and the receding of the multi-year ice has been the first indication. Every year, the Arctic freezes — freezes down through the Bering Straits — and the limits of that ice have stayed relatively constant the last few years. But in the summer when that annual ice melts and retreats, the perennial ice, the ice that has been there for years and years and years, that is what is starting to melt — the permanent ice cap over the Arctic, if you will, and that is what is retreating. The implications of that for our missions, specifically in the Arctic, are that there is open water, although there are pieces of ice floating around, which makes it kind of dangerous. There is access to water where there didn’t used to be, and many of the same statutory requirements, or mission requirements that we have in the lower 48 or anywhere else, exist up there. Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters Homeland Security Today Magazine | November 2009 272009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=30http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=30A VIEW FROM THE HELM capable, so that puts a limit on where they can operate. We’ve deployed helicopters up there. The first two years we deployed our H-65 helicopters, which are short-range helicopters that traditionally operate off the back of cutters and close to the shoreline here in the United States. We have larger helicopters, H-60 helicopters, down in Kodiak. This year we brought H60s up instead of H-65s because H-60 helicopters have de-icing capability and H-65s do not, and while it is the summer up there, you still have icing conditions. I was flying in an H-60 up there last week with some people, and we were flying over some mountains and encountered icing conditions that would have been problematic for another helicopter. So that tells us we have only one helo in the Coast Guard that can operate up there, so we’re looking at something else. Beyond that we know other limitations up there regarding communications, especially communications with aircraft. We were airborne and had difficulty from time to time checking in with the base station and advising that our operations were normal and we were safe. We had to relay through several other aircraft to do that, so there’s an issue with infrastructure up there related to communications, which impacts command and control. So those are the types of things that we’re learning and we hope to, later on this year, actually come out with a requirements document—we call it the High Latitudes Study—that will be the first definition of requirements for what we need to do up there as far as looking at new platforms and new capability. Florida. We would like to be able to board these vessels at sea and then hold the operators accountable for migrant smuggling and have criminal penalties associated with that. That is not directly related to immigration reform, but it is more related to the tactical issues we have to deal with in migrant interdiction on the water. That has to be legislative? We did something very similar some years ago regarding drug interdiction. If someone was carrying drugs and they were outside the legal limits where we could do a boarding, the 12-mile territorial sea and then the additional 12 miles customs waters, we would have to prove there was a conspiracy or an intent to import that into the United States to get a conviction. Somebody sitting 26 miles off Miami with four tons of cocaine by definition is attempting to import drugs, and we actually got legislation passed that allowed us to board these vessels with drugs on board and then prosecute them under US law for even just having the drugs en route to the United States. That was a significant improvement in our enforcement effort. We’re looking for something similar in terms of legislative authorities in terms of migrants. Mexico and drug interdiction Given the situation in northern Mexico, how do you see that affecting Coast Guard operations beyond just your normal interdiction of drugs and narcotics? First of all, I would say this about Mexico: In our view, related to the Coast Guard mission responsibilities, the southern border that is most consequential to the United States is the southern border of Mexico at Guatemala. Most of the cocaine that is entering Mexico and this country is being moved from Colombia in non-commercial vessels to Latin America or Mexico, and our ability to detect it at the border becomes monumentally harder to do than if we can interdict them at sea. So the majority of our effort that impacts the southwest border takes place much further south in trying to interdict those loads of cocaine as close to South America as we can. For that reason, I think for three of the last four years we’ve had record drug seizures, and there are indications that availability is going down and prices are going up in certain drug markets in this country, and we think that we may be close to having an impact on markets that we haven’t seen, at least in the time that I’ve been working the Coast Gu2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=31http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=31A VIEW FROM THE HELM Succession and priorities When you hand off command to your successor, what are the three top priorities you’re going to give him? Well, when I was interviewed to be the commandant by Secretary Chertoff, I told him—you have to come up with a value proposition when you do an interview—and I said, “If you select me as the commandant, there are some things that I’m going to do that haven’t been done for a long time that have needed to be done for a long time.” We kind of grouped that under the rubric of “modernization,” for lack of a better term, and it has to do with a wide-ranging set of initiatives that we’ve been working on for the last three years to create more effective command and control; one of those is doing away with our Atlantic and Pacific commands and going to a single, global synchronizer. Probably the most impactful thing we’re doing right now is taking the entire Coast Guard and all of our operating assets to the same logistics and maintenance system to more effectively support the assets that are out there. So my number one priority is to continue to modernize the Coast Guard to make it a little more change-centric, a little more flexible and agile to changes and command signals so that, say, as pressure on the southwest border forces us to confront an atsea migrant or drug smuggling threat from Mexico we can reorient and react to that and do what we’re supposed to. It’s probably manifested itself in some other ways related to the transportation system. Since 9/11, we’ve seen huge increases in offshore oil and gas development, significant increases in the size of cruise ships and cruise ships calling at the United States, significant expansion in the towing industry in this country. All of that are demand signals to us that we have to be flexible and agile enough to respond to, and I don’t think we’ve been organized correctly to do that as well as we could. So after modernization what I’m trying to do is create a change-centric Coast Guard that adapts as continuously as it needs to through the future and make sure there’s continuity across my chain of command. If I were to give you one big one after that that will be on my successor’s plate, the demand for more rationale in how we allocate resources to our missions. We have 11 missions, anywhere from aids to navigation, to drug interdiction, to treaties enforcement. We get a lot of scrutiny on what are called “legacy missions,” not homeland security missions before 9/11, and these are things related to our role inside the Department of Transportation. We remain under the Transportation Committee’s authorizing jurisdiction, and there’s tremendous interest in how we allocated resources to those 11 mission areas, and we usually do that based on local conditions, managing risk, with the input of our field commanders. As we move forward, we’re going to have to get better at articulating how we do that and informing everybody of the knowledge and information that we have to make those decisions. From a strategic management viewpoint, I think that will be a significant challenge for my successor to be able to articulate how we do all the things we do and how we set priorities and how we manage risk. Because as budgets get depressed and more pressure is put on agencies to do more things, people are going to want to have an explanation of why we had X-level of “ FROM A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT VIEWPOINT I THINK THAT WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE FOR MY SUCCESSOR TO BE ABLE TO ARTICULATE HOW WE DO ALL THE THINGS WE DO AND HOW WE SET PRIORITIES AND HOW WE MANAGE RISK.” effort on drug interdiction, Y-level of effort on fisheries enforcement and Z-level of effort on migrant interdiction. Any other points that you want to make? It is critically important now that we’ve restructured our acquisition organization—we’ve basically stabilized the baseline for the national security cutter, which is the lead, very big asset we are building—that we move as quickly 2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=32http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=32Reinvention Tension COAST GUARD/PETTY OFFICER 3RD CLASS WALTER SHINN THE US COAST GUARD WITH NEW MISSIONS AND CHALLENGES, THE US COAST GUARD MUST FIND NEW WAYS OF RESPONDING. The US Coast Guard Cutter Anthony Petit connects to an oil recovery barge in Glen Channel, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, in a joint exercise with its Canadian counterparts. Climate change in the northern latitudes is confronting the Coast Guard with new challenges in fulfilling its traditional missions, like responding to oil spills. When you’re stationed on an icebreaking tug, the phrase “semper paratus” (always ready), the traditional US Coast Guard motto, takes on a new and very concrete meaning. Should a flood or fire threaten your ship, readiness means one thing: the ability to get your hands very rapidly on the right repair tool. One day, in the midst of a disaster drill on the Great Lakes, Coast Guard Machinery Technician (MK) David Scribellito realized that was something neither he nor shipmates on the Neah Bay could do. In search of a saw, Scribellito recalled, he had to rummage through the single duffel bag pocket where all six standard cutter repair kits were stored, before finally dumping the contents of the entire bag out on the deck in frustration, only to discover his saw, bent and useless. “I just thought there could be a better way to do this,” Scribellito explained at the Coast Guard’s 2008 Innovation Expo, “so I asked my MK1 if I could draw up a new design.” Scribellito’s new design reorganized the way Coast Guard By PHILIP LEGGIERE, BUSINESS EDITOR repair kits were assembled. In place of the traditional method of stacking separate, unrelated assembly kits in one duffel bag, he developed a new, comprehensive Roll-up Damage Control Kit incorporating individual pockets for each tool and larger pockets for multiple numbers of the same item. When the kit is opened, all of the tools and supplies are visible, accessible and ready to use. “MK3 David Scribellito seized the opportunity to address a common shipboard challenge and enhance the safety of his shipmates and others,” Captain Joe Re, chairman of the Commandant’s Innovation Council at the Coast Guard, told Homeland Security Today. “Ingenious in its simplicity, practicality and broad applicability, this simple idea is a tremendous example of innovation happening at the deckplate level. It clearly demonstrates how innovation can really transform things!” The challenge of reinvention Scribellito’s challenge and solution in many ways provides a metaphor for the greater challenges faced by the entire US Coast This month’s issue is now available online at… 30 November 2009 | Homeland Security Today Magazine2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=33http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=33Guard. For, as Scribellito’s innovation brought a smarter simplicity to what had been confusing complexity, the Coast Guard today is challenged with reinventing itself by reorganizing its farflung components to better adapt to a complex profusion of changing missions and requirements. “The Coast Guard has always been multi-mission, but over the past decade and more, its mission load has grown out of control,” Stephen Caldwell, director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Homeland Security and Justice Issues Department, told Homeland Security Today. “Just think of it,” Caldwell explained. “Throughout the 90s and then after 9/11, a succession of administrations and congresses piled a slew of new missions on the service one by one.” “Besides its traditional search-and-rescue, marine safety, fishing regulation and icebreaking missions,” Caldwell said, “the Coast Guard has gotten involved in major ways with pollution control and enforcement in harbors and waterways, policing immigration and maritime smuggling, drug interdiction and inspection of natural gas carriers. It’s also the point organization Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters for maritime and port security, which requires inspecting domestic and foreign ports and vessels, and has had to broaden cooperation with Customs and Border Protection and other agencies.” “Before and after 9/11,” he added, “the service was stretched in so many directions simultaneously that it’s fair to say that all those demands structurally stressed and overloaded the traditional structures that had served it so well in the past.” Examples of post-Sept. 11, 2001, missions include an evolving partnership with the US Special Operations Command, the development of a trained Maritime Security Response Team to handle high risk security operations, regular escorts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers and nuclear-powered submarines through crowded waterways, point defense of critical infrastructure and boarding inbound vessels to verify the identities of crew and the safety of dangerous cargoes. In addition, the demands of the Coast Guard’s traditional missions have expanded. As drug smugglers have increasingly developed new ways of transporting drugs, including the use of self-propelled, semi-submersibles, the Coast Guard has needed to conduct more intensive patrol efforts at counterdrug and migrant interdiction operations. The rapid expansion of the maritime industry has also greatly expanded the need for marine safety missions to keep pace with the expansion of the maritime industry. Yet, until recently, the Coast Guard structurally remained largely a loosely structured collection of largely autonomous, often isolated units. “The Coast Guard traditionally had little formal doctrine to guide it, at least as the other services know the term,” said Caldwell. “The service’s traditional division into separate Atlantic and Pacific area commands created two separate cultures that have often left the two regions going their separate ways on both procedures and practice.” In addition, he said, logistics and maintenance have been so decentralized that, “except for the aviation arm, there’s been almost no standardization.” At the same time, the Coast Guard remained largely out of sight and out of mind for Washington policy makers and lawmakers who allowed resources for the Coast Guard to atrophy precisely as its mission ramped up, explained John Hutton, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management for GAO. “The result of neglect,” Hutton said, “was aging, increasingly obsolescent assets, static funding and a shrinking footprint. Too often,” Hutton added, “the Coast Guard had a tendency to worsen the problems by taking on new responsibilities and trying to just make do with what they already had — for instance vessels that were retreads from the Navy or overused vessels, forced to stay in service beyond any reasonable in-service life expectancy.” Learning from Deepwat2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=34http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=34THE REINVENTION TENSION Lockheed Martin Corporation and Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, as a systems integrator for the massive project. The decision to use a systems integrator for the Deepwater Program was driven in large part, Hutton observed, because of the Coast Guard’s lack of expertise in managing and executing an acquisition of this magnitude. “Under this approach,” Hutton said, “the Coast Guard provided the contractor with broad, overall performance specifications, such as the ability to interdict illegal immigrants, and ICGS determined the specifications for the Deepwater assets. The result, as the Coast Guard was forced to acknowledge in 2007 in the face of scathing rebukes from Congress and the media, were missed deadlines, glaring manufacturing flaws and embarrassing cost overruns. In the conventional view, Deepwater was and is still seen largely as an object lesson of a service gone lax in its oversight responsibilities toward the corporate sector. While this assessment is accurate as far as it goes, observed Hutton, it fails to appreciate the depth of the problem. “The dominant line of thinking in Washington and the Coast Guard was hardly alone in this, for remember this was the time of the whole reorganization of government. “The trend,” Hutton said, “was ‘outsourcing, outsourcing, outsourcing.’ Because the Coast Guard had such a lack of depth in its workforce, they handed off a lot of control of the recapitalization process to contractors and structured the contract to be managed by a commercial lead systems integrator, a decision that was supported, and sometimes lauded, by auditors at the Government Accountability Office and members of Congress.” The irony is that, by the time the missteps of the Deepwater program surfaced, badly damaging the Coast Guard’s image, the Guard had already begun embarking on a number of radical steps to better align its structure with new realities and requirements. “Even before Deepwater problems came to a head,” Hutton recalled, “incoming commandant Thad Allen decided he wanted to overhaul the service’s acquisition arm and build an organization responsible for administering all procurement programs, including Deepwater, which then was separate.” management process that requires documentation and approval of program activities at key points in a program’s lifecycle. As an example of how the reformed acquisition process works, Tangora cited the Fast Response Cutter Sentinel-class patrol boat, a more than $1 billion project in which the Coast Guard acted as system integrator, working directly with the contractor, rather than through a separate lead systems integrator. Throughout the project, Tangora said, the Coast Guard not only developed detailed technical requirements but handled oversight and auditing of adherence to those requirements throughout the proposal, design evaluation process and construction. “What we’ve learned and now are trying to institutionalize,” said Tangora, “is that you have to have an internalized discipline which says that you don’t proceed on a project till you’ve proved that an asset is satisfactory. Before you lay the first piece of steel, project cost estimates, requirements and timetable commitments need to be detailed and explicit.” Force readiness Besides creating the acquisition organization, Allen has sought to restructure Coast Guard commands, traditionally siloed by geography, into a single operations command responsible for executing all missions, and a single force readiness command responsible for standardizing doctrine and training. The changes, according to Captain Sandra Stosz, director of the Coast Guard Enterprise, Strategy, Management and Doctrine Oversight Directorate, are designed to give the Coast Guard “the same operating flexibility the Defense Department services have. “In a nutshell,” she explained, “modernization means the integration of all Coast Guard operations according to truly functional lines of authority.” A prime exampl2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=35http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=35port security solutions Smiths Detection serves customs agencies, emergency responders, and law enforcement teams world wide, providing integrated security solutions to protect life and property. 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In the event of natural emergencies such as Katrina or terrorist activities, local commanders, according to Lee, will be able to call on the DOG for specially trained units “mixed and matched” according to their specific expertise. As an example of how DOG forces can be brought together to counter specific threats, Lee cited an incident in January 2009 in which Coast Guard Sector Seattle members, in conjunction with agents from the US Border Patrol’s Blaine Sector, conducted a joint agency boarding of a vessel in Bellingham, Wash. The joint effort resulted in the extradition of one of the vessel’s crewmen to Redmond, Wash., for arrest warrants and two crew members being detained, transported and investigated for having questionable immigration status. Upon further investigation of the ship’s crew list and advanced notification of arrival information, the boarding officials were able to arrange with Whatcom County, Wash., officials the extradition of one man wanted by the town of Redmond for outstanding warrants. They were also able to successfully clear two crew members who were initially under suspicion based on pre-arrival information. This successful operation, Lee said, was an example of the collaborative partnerships between the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and local agencies coordinating law enforcement activities to ensure the safety and security of the vessels, ports and waters of Puget Sound. “We’d had a litany of different sorts of specialized forces, each the best in its narrow sphere, which works fine when you’re talking about single threat focus,” Lee said. “But when you need to be geared up to respond to a wide array of threats, often interconnected threats, we needed to have a more cohesive and coordinated approach which enables our special forces to respond in a joint environment.” Straddling the seam While transformation remains a work in progress, even formerly staunch critics of the Coast Guard’s previous failings acknowledge steady progress has been made. “Strategically, the Coast Guard seems to be heading in the right direction and to be aggressively trying to learn from their mistakes,” said Mandy Smithberger, national security investigator of the Project on Government Oversight in Washington, DC, which has in the past denounced what it claimed was lack of accountability and lack of contractor oversight at the Coast Guard. “The changes the Coast Guard has embarked upon are certainly ambitious and, if executed as designed, will better position it to understand and assess risk and enhance operational capacity,” said Smithberger. 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REUTERS/SOVFRACHT 36 November 2009 | Homeland Security Today Magazine This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=39http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=39MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS No Longer Lost at Sea Out of range The Center for Island, Maritime, and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES), based at the University of Hawaii, is developing satellites, radar, acoustics and data fusion capabilities under a grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) University Programs at the Science and Technology Directorate. These systems are intended to track known and unknown vessels and people, CIMES Director Roy Wilkens told Homeland Security Today. But tracking ships weighing more than 300 gross tons is simple so long as they have their AIS tracking devices switched on. The technologies under development at the University of Hawaii would be useful if a ship were to switch its AIS device off, although it would still be a difficult task under some circumstances, Wilkens acknowledged. “Synthetic aperture radars are very good at picking up ships in the open ocean,” Wilkens mused. “However, they are expensive and power hungry. They are not activated at all times. “It helps a lot if you have an idea of where the ship was last seen and where the ship might be going,” he continued. “If you were just looking for a ship out in the ocean, that would be difficult, but we are working on some of that.” The University of Hawaii is actually building satellites that would deliver surveillance over various parts of the ocean, as well as radar stations that could pick up vessels in remote areas. As part of that plan, researchers are determining the appropriate sensors to place on individual satellites. A natural catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina would require one set of satellites to examine the devastation left behind, while a manmade disaster like a chemical plant explosion would use another set of sensors. “We want to be able to view large areas on a frequent basis so that we are aware of everything going on in those areas through the use of satellites,” Wilkens said, noting that his university would be the first research institution to launch its own satellites by 2011 if all goes according to plan. Meanwhile, US maritime installations can detect ships up to Homeland Security Today Magazine | November 2009 THE TOOLS FOR TRACKING SEABORNE ASSETS ARE REACHING NEW LEVELS OF CAPABILITY— BUT THE OCEANS STILL HAVE THEIR MYSTERIES. By MICKEY McCARTER, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT IN AUGUST, RUSSIAN MARITIME AUTHORITIES LOST TRACK OF THE CARGO SHIP ARCTIC SEA, WHICH WENT MISSING WHILE TRAVELING AROUND EUROPE. The disappearance of the ship set off a weeks-long search by international agencies due in part to rumors that it was carrying nuclear materials. Russia claimed the ship was carrying timber to Algeria, but skeptics suspected that Russia was attempting to ship missiles to Iran in order to secretly circumvent an international embargo of arms to the nation. When a Russian warship retrieved the cargo ship off the coast of Africa, the Kremlin claimed eight pirates had hijacked it—in a very rare abduction in European waters near the Baltic Sea. Regardless of why the Arctic Sea went missing for so long, the ship’s location remained unknown for weeks because someone on board switched off the automatic identification system (AIS), a tracking device required of all vessels more than 300 gross tons in weight under international treaty. Could the same thing happen to an American vessel? US authorities do have technological and intelligence capabilities that they can call upon in any similar situation, but it would not necessarily be a simple matter to find a missing ship with the current state of maritime domain awareness globally. Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters 372009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=40http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=40NO LONGER LOST AT SEA 1,000 miles away using large, over-the-horizon radars. Small portable systems known as high-frequency radars can track ships within 100 miles of maritime facilities. These radars use a low amount of power so they can be left on to provide persistent surveillance. But CIMES faces the challenge of how to power these radars when they are in areas like the Arctic Ocean, where it could be dark six months out of the year. Solar batteries would quickly become useless in such an area. As ships draw even closer to shore, maritime authorities could turn to acoustics for detection support. Acoustic devices can locate vessels and divers under the water or on the surface in areas around a port. The University of Hawaii is researching acoustics to improve passive acoustic methods, which are susceptible to interference from noise generated by waves, animals and vessels. Active acoustics create noise that interferes with the regular behavior of marine wildlife such as dolphins and whales. The university hopes to deploy a passive system for test by next summer. “Centers such as ours have up to five years of assured funding, so we can make progress on these problems,” Wilkens commented. “We are set up to tackle hard problems because we have the time and resources to do it.” Ultimately, data fusion capabilities will become a key part of sensing solutions as computer power and communications speed increase exponentially over the years and power consumption by sensors decreases. “All of those things are going in the right direction with the advances in technology,” he said. Stages of awareness The Russians undoubtedly noticed right away when the Arctic Sea turned off its AIS device, as would United States authorities if an American or other ship were to do the same, Dana Goward, director of Assessment, Integration and Risk Management at the US Coast Guard, told Homeland Security Today. Moreover, small vessels and criminal ships likely do not have their AIS turned on in the first place. But the United States is attempting to deal with threats that involve tracking ships by developing advanced maritime domain awareness. With basic awareness, a nation could use forensics to determine after the fact why things happened. With intermediate ing US ships,” Richard Hildreth, CRI senior vice president, told Homeland Security Today. “Several years ago, the pirate issue was a problem in Indonesia. In the last two or three years off the coast of Somalia, with the total lack of law enforcement or governmental entity that can combat the pirates, the pirates formed a number of different groups, and they have targeted ships carrying cargo of value or are headed toward a certain issue or engaged in contracts,” Hildreth explained. As CRI began to recognize the threats faced by a number of its clients from pirates who would kidnap and ransom their crews and cargo, the company stepped up its security efforts on their behalf. Many of the companies operating in seas at risk buy kidnap, ransom and extortion insurance, and CRI responds to ransom situations by negotiating the safe release of crews and their ships, Hildreth said. The company also does a lot of work proactively to train crews and vessels to diminish the success of piracy. Such training makes vessels less vulnerable to piracy or makes them less attractive targets. Training can include awareness of pirate vessels and operation of equipment, such as water cannons and other deterrents, to drive pirates away. Good security plans and surveillance equipment can boost preparedness along the US coastline against terrorism, as well, Hildreth said, where well-developed infrastructure and the presence of police forces make piracy unlikely. The US Coast Guard issued Maritime Security Directive 104-6 (rev. 2) in May 2009 to encourage US ships to undertake risk-based measures to thwart piracy attempts against them. The directive prescribes hardening of ships’ systems and developing vessel security pla2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=41http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=41NO LONGER LOST AT SEA awareness, a nation could examine an existing scene and understand what is occurring and why. But advanced awareness involves predicting what will happen so that authorities can intervene and change the outcome. The Coast Guard could conduct a simple exercise in advanced awareness by predicting where a missing ship would turn up, in Goward’s view. “We would like to think that even if the ship dropped off and we were momentarily unsure of where the ship was— because ships like that advance only 12-15 knots at a time in nautical miles per hour—it would be a relatively limited search area, and we would be able to locate it quickly,” he said. The US Coast Guard is in the final stages of implementing AIS tracking all around the US coastline, which covers an estimated 93,000 miles. Coastal facilities can track AIS from 50 nautical miles offshore; oil platforms in the water can track ships further out. Satellite-based systems offer opportunities to track ships up to 2,000 nautical miles offshore. The Coast Guard has a regulation pending to require vessels 65 feet or longer to use AIS transponders, which would boost the number of ships actively using the system. Still, AIS areas and then develops plans to close gaps and vulnerabilities discovered in those assessments. The company’s clients include both shipping companies and port authorities, Barber said. “We do both shore and ship. It could be as simple as one vessel or one facility or an entire port or an entire complex. We have some clients with offices in many regions. We develop a formula to see that they are operating on the same timeline,” Barber said. Regardless of the size of the client, however, an assessment by Andrews International serves as the platform that clients use to determine the state of their security. In the past, those assessments have largely been static, according to Barber. Andrews International’s analysts use software to produce the assessments, but events could overtake those assessments and lessen their effectiveness, he continued. So Andrews International sought to make assessments dynamic through data mining. An active assessment is achieved by pairing a static assessment tool with data mining software that scours open source intelligence and automatically updates alerts, Barber said. “It’s not humanly possible for someone to have a finger on the button 24/7. So we went out and found tools for data mining based on the parameters discovered in the assessment,” Barber stated. “So we reduce man-hour costs, and there is much more built into the core of the assessment. It goes into public safety and gives first responders an electronic footprint when something happens.” Other products and services in development and under exploration by the Coast Guard show promise in fighting piracy, as well. In Camden, NJ, the Applied Communications and Information Network (ACIN) started up as a business incubator between Drexel University and the US Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center, which integrates C4ISR technologies for security purposes. ACIN provides support to between 65 and 70 businesses, including ArgonST—the integrator for the Joint Unified Multi-Capable Pro- US crewmembers track maritime assets. requires vessels to cooperate by operating the system and leaving it turned on. “It doesn’t account for folks that don’t want to cooperate,” Goward pointed out. “But quite frankly, a lot of this business is separating the wheat from the chaff. It allows us to look at and sort out the great majority of traffic. We can see them and undertection System (JUMPS), an Army C4ISR system. Ed Celiano, general manager of ACIN, told Homeland Security Today that the US Coast Guard and other maritime authorities became interested in JUMPS because his facility chose a good location to demonstrate the system. “I wound up carving up an area here in Camden—right on the waterfront between New Jersey and Philadelphia—and I of2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=42http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=42NO LONGER LOST AT SEA stand who they are. We can verify quickly at several levels that they are engaged in legitimate activity.” Vessels not in compliance are in violation of US law. “When a vessel is out there and not transmitting, that immediately highlights that vessel for us and makes it a vessel of interest and simplifies the sorting problem. So there’s a lot of value in cooperative systems, although they don’t directly point arrows at the bad guys,” he noted. Increasing awareness through the use of detection systems encourages people to behave since transparency often leads to self-correcting behavior. Therefore, increased monitoring of all known and unknown vessels—and letting them know they are being monitored—itself serves as a deterrent to piracy, smuggling, terrorism and other crimes. “The nation can and should do better in this area. It’s been lagging for quite some time,” Goward concluded. Challenges to awareness For all the technological advances, there remain some major impediments to gaining the level of maritime domain awareness sought by the Coast Guard, according to Curtis Dubay, Coast Guard chief of the Maritime Domain Awareness and Information Sharing Staff. Achieving and maintaining a high level of maritime domain awareness allows maritime authorities like the Coast Guard to better apply their resources at sea. Many US initiatives for improving maritime domain awareness relate to advancements in electronic systems and information technology. Electronic devices provide situational awareness, which is an aspect of total maritime domain awareness, but authorities also need to improve their intelligence and threat analysis. “The common operational picture and many of these other systems provide you with situational awareness,” Dubay said. “While situational awareness is a very important aspect of domain awareness, that’s not the whole picture. In addition to situational awareness, you really need to have an intelligence and threat analysis piece to go along with that. When you think Perhaps the crown jewel of the new Coast Guard fleet being built under the Integrated Deepwater about domain awareness, it’s really Project is the Fast Response Cutter, a small, capable boat being built to patrol US ports and waterthe sum total in terms of your ways. understanding of the domain that In February 2009, Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, La., the builder of the cutter for the Coast is going to allow you to bring the Guard, contracted L-3 Communications and its Communication Systems-East division in Camintervention to bear at the right den, NJ, to supply the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance time to perceive the threats and to and reconnaissance systems (C4ISR) for the vessel. thwart a bad act.” Under the initial two-year contract, L-3 Communications will produce the first shipset and Intelligence gathering improves associated training systems, Bob Montgomery, L-3’s director of homeland security programs, through effective and efficient told Homeland Security Today. The contract includes options for up to another 33 C4ISR information sharing with maritime shipsets. stakeholders, Dubay commented. “We provide integrated, interoperable communications for the Navy and the Coast Guard. The But electronic systems do provide heart of our system is what we call the MarCom Integrated Voice Communication Switch,” Montsome solutions there, as well. gomery explained. “It takes all of the exterior communications like radios and MILSATCOMs and “The wave of the future is to find interior communications like cell phones and integrates them into one system and allows them to ways that we can more efficiently be completely interoperable.” share through common standards As such, the MarCom switch enables an operator using a ultra-high frequency circuit in a helusing metadata,” he forecast. “Sysicopter to talk to another operator using a very high frequency circuit on a boat, for example, tems in a netce2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=43http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=43NO LONGER LOST AT SEA Sonic deterrence Paradox Marine and Inferno, both of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., combined their resources to offer a piracy deterrence system in direct response to Maritime Security Directive 104-6, Jay Keenan, chief executive officer of Paradox Marine, told Homeland Security Today. Specializing in monitoring, tracking and surveillance systems for vessels of all sizes, Paradox Marine supplies various sensors like infrared trip wires, infrared beam sensors or motion detection to activate the Inferno acoustic device when they sense intruders, Keenan said. “When looking at security on large commercial vessels or any vessels for that matter, you can look at it like layers of an onion. The outer layer is security to keep them from even boarding the vessel to begin with, like water cannons. Then you go down each layer of the onion as more security to keep the people away from their intended target, which would be the crew,” Keenan said. The Inferno is just such a layer of security, he added. It is an acoustic device that has a debilitating effect on intruders to repel them. Keenan suggested setting up several Inferno devices in arrays to achieve a multiplier effect in a strategic area. Container ships in need of an anti-piracy plan would establish a safe room, and an easy place to have a safe room on a large vessel is in the forward steering compartment, which has limited access through tunnels on the sides of a vessel. Pirates entering those tunnels would be at the mercy of Inferno’s sonic assault. “It basically has a patented frequency pattern where it modulates four frequencies together. It goes up and down, so it’s not a consistent pattern. It has an affect on the organs in the ear. You feel really dizzy and like you are going to throw up. There is a disorienting, confusing effect,” Keenan commented. Maurice Goldman, managing director of Inferno, continued: “When you add alarms and tracking together, particularly when you have a deterrence alarm like Inferno, you have now added another layer. You have added a layer of deterrence for preventing the event. If Inferno goes off upon trigger, you may send those people away before they do anything or before they break something or start to do bad things. So preventing the event makes deterrence pretty important.” At about 125 decibels, the volume of noise from Inferno is not what would repel pirates, but rather the Inferno’s patented frequency changes would drive them away with their disorienting effects, Goldman added. we have them today to that architecture of the future—the open servicesoriented architecture that makes information sharing much more easy to do, but also requires a considerable amount of care to make sure that we implement it in a smart and proper manner.” With all the improvements, it’s still not possible for a single nation to unilaterally achieve full awareness of the maritime domain. Even the rising levels of cooperation between US agencies and their international counterparts pose data assurance challenges, especially with the wide variety of information standards around the world. Despite this, global cooperation is necessary to get the United States to the level of maritime domain awareness that it wants to reach. Observed Goward: “There’s no other government right next door making sure that things are going well off our coast. So not only is there a whole lot to monitor, it’s like there’s a failed state on the other side. It’s a semi-lawless region.” HST Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters Homeland Security Today Magazine | November 2009 412009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=44http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=44INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION Hardening Ground Zero—and Beyond By L I Z A P O R T E U S V I A N A , N E W Y O R K C O R R E S P O N D E N T THE NEED FOR PHYSICAL SECURITY ISN’T QUESTIONED IN NEW YORK’S SKYSCRAPERS BUT THE BEST MEANS OF DOING CAN SPARK A SHARP DEBATE. THE ATTACKS OF SEPT. 11, 2001, MADE AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON THE CITY OF NEW YORK. MORE THAN IN ANY OTHER AMERICAN CITY, THE LESSONS OF THAT DAY HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE PROTECTION OF THE CITY’S PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. But applying those lessons has proven an uneven and contentious process. Nowhere have the security issues been more glaring—and the differences over addressing them more public—than at the place where the new age in homeland security was ushered in: Ground Zero. The new $10 billion World Trade Center (WTC) site project has been plagued with battles between private developer Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Most of the progress made has been in underground construction, but giant steel beams framing the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower are now 105 feet above street level, and the Sept. 11 Memorial is coming together. The contaminated Deutsche Bank building is still standing despite the fact that it was supposed to be torn down long ago. The people of New York clearly aren’t optimistic about the progress. An Aug. 28 Quinnipiac University poll showed that, by margins of up to 2 to 1, New York City voters do not believe projections by the Port Authority that key redevelopment targets at Ground Zero will be met. Although 40 percent said redevelopment of lower Manhattan is going “very well” or “somewhat well,” 53 percent said “somewhat badly” or “very badly.” “They don’t expect to have any part of Ground Zero ready by the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attack,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “We’re getting fed up with the continual lack of progress at Ground Zero. And we think it’s important that there be some signs of movement this year.” But whenever the buildings are up and running—experts say there are many measures that could be taken to better prepare building occupants, workers and area security guards to react to anything from a natural disaster to a fire to a terror attack—and everything in between. And those measures aren’t exclusive to the World Trade Center site. Many can be applicable to office buildings or other high-value targets in any city. “Is there a security issue for the new World Trade Center? Yes, because it’s going to be another iconic building and it would be a focus and target for another terrorist event,” Bruce Kennedy, a 24-year veteran of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and current director for security emergency preparedness at the Mintz Group, based in New York, explained to Homeland Security Today. The plan, and how to improve it In the spring of 2008, details of the security plan for Ground Zero were leaked and reported by some of the New York press. The security plan includes a London-like “Ring of Steel” that would include barriers and guard booths around the World Trade Center footprints. Some street blocks would be restricted to traffic or closed altogether. Drivers of commercial vehicles like black cars and tour buses, as well as tenants, would have to register with the police as a “trusted driver” to easily get in and out of the area, and electronic transponders were even reportedly going to be attached to those vehicles to allow for constant monitoring. License plates would be scanned and other relevant data collected by police. In February 2009, the NYPD invited the public to comment on the data-gathering portion of its controversial Lower Manhattan Security Initiative. Under a deal reached in July 2008, the NYPD is in charge of developing and implementing a security plan for the site and surrounding areas—with the help of the Port Authority. That plan aims to address the private office towers and other public facilities at the si2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=45http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=45REUTERS/SHANNON STAPLETON Ground Zero under reconstruction as of September. Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters Homeland Security Today Magazine | November 2009 432009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=46http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=46HARDENING GROUND ZERO—AND BEYOND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LEVERAGE ants—pay for the installation and maintenance of all security equipment at the WTC. So far, there seem to be no major updates on developments of this plan. Some security experts said the Ring of Steel idea is a good one, particularly because London and New York City often set the bar when it comes to securing buildings and its people. “Absolutely—they’re proven effective,” Kennedy said, referring to London’s success with using its Ring of Steel to defend itself against the Irish Republican Army and other potential attackers. Furthermore, installing such security features at the outset—rather than tacking them on to any plan later on—will be more cost and time effective. “When you think about designing an entire site that way and building from the ground up, you have a lot more flexibility in modifying the environment a potential attacker would have to operate in,” explained Brian Jackson, associate director of the homeland security program at the RAND Corporation. The Ring of Steel and similar security methods are “certainly a way, particularly rebuilding that site in particular, to making it a more difficult target and divert attackers to other directions.” Outside Ground Zero Beyond the Ground Zero site, New York is the only city that mandates that every high-rise building in the city has an action plan that covers emergencies beyond fires—the “what if” emergencies that could happen, said Kennedy, who has traveled the world studying building security operations. But moves can also be made to better prepare the buildings themselves for any sort of incident. These can include widening stairwells to provide for massive evacuation, adequate fire drills to prepare residents for emergencies, stronger foundational columns for buildings, effective fireproofing and similar measures. “Duck and cover” exercises are common on the West Coast to prepare for earthquakes, severe storms or chemical incidents. 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The forthcoming Siveillance Fusion is an integrated security management platform that ties together intrusion, access control and closed-circuit television into a 2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=47http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=47HARDENING GROUND ZERO—AND BEYOND glass areas, go quickly to stairwells or rooms without windows that are structurally stronger. RAND conducted a 2002 survey of Los Angeles high-rise buildings and found that government could help buildings more actively conduct threat assessments, mandate or provide more emergency preparedness and building evacuation, make public buildings exemplars of balanced security and provide new regulatory oversight for private security firms. It also found that the private sector should regularly update threat and vulnerability assessments for buildings, keep occupants informed and mix low-tech options like landscaping and smart procedures with high-tech security solutions. Two vital preparedness elements are to educate tenants on workplace violence and what’s called “shelter-inplace”—the idea that sometimes it may be better to stay where you are rather than evacuate. These elements are only practiced in London and New York. “Shelter-in-place has a great value, not only in fires but other criminal events, police activities, chemical spills,” Kennedy said. “We grow up from the time we first attend kindergarten learning how to respond to fire. It’s only recently that we’ve been teaching in the schools about shelter-in-place, but we don’t educate the building occupants. You go to other cities; it’s not being done.” New York was cited in September for being a model for nationwide disaster planning. President Obama’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) essentially said that New York, with guidance from the national law firm, Pillsbury, should serve as a model for federal, state and local government planning in terms of forming response plans for all relevant disaster scenarios (hurricanes, earthquakes, pandemics, terror attacks, etc.), determining government’s role in each event and possibly suspending or modifying some laws in times of each disaster. Technology, of course, also comes into play. Post-Sept. 11, many business buildings and others installed worker identification card readers so that security guards could instead focus attention on visitors and others without IDs. More security cameras were installed, and many buildings funneled people in and out of fewer entrances and exits than before. Concrete barriers were erected in front of some buildings—a common security feature, particularly overseas where truck bombs are a favorite of terrorists. Analysis: Complacence or confidence? Eight years after those horrific attacks, some would say a sense of complacency has set in when it comes to infrastructure security. Kennedy conducted his own informal survey of 10 buildings with which he was familiar prior to 9/11, in both the spring of 2002, then in 2006. In 2002, security was “at least three magnitudes better” than it was pre-9/11 in terms of checking IDs, installation of visitor management systems, erecting turnstiles, etc. … “It was a huge difference,” he added. But when he returned to those same buildings in 2006, 90 percent were back to the way they were before the attacks. “It’s not only complacency, it’s dollars and cents,” he explained. Levine noted that some buildings may have eased up on some procedures, but there’s been more of a shift in focus in the effective way to secure buildings between immediately after 9/11 and now. Spending a lot of money on a ton of surveillance cameras, for example, may not be very effective. “Certainly the focus on preventative measures and the full specter of security measures have ramped back some since the days of 9/11,” Jackson concurred. Because there have been no other major attacks on US soil, the level of fear has naturally decreased, but, “from one perspective, that is worrisome—the threat has not gone away,” Jackson said. But “the fact that the measures around every building and the measures around every possible target have backed off is not wholly negative, either.” If the theory behind terrorism is to terrify, and we are now more comfortable2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=48http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=48Find your way through the information maze Turn to HSToday.us for the information you need While you have your hands full, our global network of correspondents is working throughout the day to bring you the latest news, analysis and resources you need to do your job. 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Go to HSToday.us and sign up for the Daily Briefing eNewsletters—quick hits on important homeland security news with a different sector focus each day.2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=49http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=49Fall Education Directory A guide for those seeking higher education in homeland security The maturing of homeland security studies When Homeland Security Today published its first Education Guide in May 2007, it had 81 entries. In this year’s Guide, we have over 150—and the information is so abundant that even more is available on our website, www.HSToday.us. There are numerous reasons for this. One is that homeland security has matured as a discipline; people realize that it’s much more than just screeners at airports and the prevention of terrorism. Homeland security is recognized as a core government function. There’s much to study and absorb. Another reason is that there is a growth in the number of knowledgeable experts available as faculty. With more people having worked in the discipline, there’s more expertise and experience available to convey. Still another reason is the growth in interest in the discipline by would-be professionals. Homeland security can now be pursued as a career all the way from academic major to professional posting. For people already pursuing homeland security-related careers, time spent in homeland security studies can prove to be a major resumé-builder and a stepping-stone to professional advancement. Whatever the reason, homeland security studies are growing at a rapid rate. Given the continued existence of all hazards, natural and man-made, the growth in homeland security studies is daily adding to a pool of knowledge that helps make us all safer. —BY DAVID SILVERBERG, EDITOR Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management. 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College of Lake County Criminal Justice, Fire Science, Law Enforcement, Emergency Response, Parking and Traffic Management. Casa Loma College Accredited Trans-Disciplinary Emergency Management Associate Degree. Entirely online. Eastern Kentucky University Bachelor’s Degrees in Homeland Security, Criminal Justice, and Fire & Safety Engineering Technology; Master’s Degree in Safety, Security and Emergency Management. Master’s program includes concentration options of Homeland Security, Fire & Emergency Services, and Occupational Safety; Master’s level Homeland Security, Fire & Emergency Services and Occupational Safety certificates. Command & General Staff College Elective courses in strategy , defense support of civil authorities, legal considerations, installation preparedness, and the aspects of WMD. Students must be field grade military officers and selected US government agency employees. Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) Summer Institute. Central Georgia Technical College Public/Private Crisis Manager Certificate; Diploma; Associate of Applied Science Degree. Community College of Denver Public Security Management. Eastern Michigan University Information Assurance. Cooper Union Master's of Science and Civil Engineering, Bachelor's of Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Institute for Urban Security. Central Pennsylvania College Homeland Security Management. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University BS degree in Homeland Security. Chaminade University of Honolulu Criminal Justice Program Master's of Criminal Justice Administration Homeland Security Leadership Development, in partnership with Naval Postgraduate School. Delaware Technical and Community College Associate Degree in Criminal Justice, Homeland Defense and Emergency Management option. Empire State College State University of New York Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Fire Service Administration, Information Systems, Information Technology, and Criminal Justice. Charter Oak State College Public Safety Administration. Drexel University, Goodwin College of Professional Studies M.S. in Professional Studies, Concentration in Homeland Security Management; Undergraduate Certificate in Emergency Management; Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security Management. ER One Institutes Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare Employees—Basic and Advanced Level. Cleveland State University Levin College of Urban Affairs BA, Public Safety Management. Excelsior College Bachelor of Science-major in Criminal Justice; Certificate in Homeland Security. SM %HFRPH&HUWLÀHGLQ+RPHODQG6HFXULW\&+6®WRGD\ The CHSSM program has earned its reputation as the premier group dedicated to providing FHUWLÀFDWLRQWUDLQLQJ and FRQWLQXLQJHGXFDWLRQ to professionals across the nation who are committed to improving homeland security. We boast a total commitment to our country’s safety, an extraordinary knowledge base, and an in-place organizational structure that delivers the highest-qualiW\FHUWLÀFDWLRQDQGFRQWLQXLQJHGXFDWLRQRSSRUWXQLWLHVLQKRPHODQGVHFXULW\ Join us today as we work together to protect what matters most—our families, communities, country, and way of life. Protect Your Homeland. “Protecting Our Homeland in the 21st Century” 222*,%,//$33529('222 7KH$PHULFDQ%RDUGIRU&HUWLÀFDWLRQL2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=53http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=53Inquiry . Strategy . Innovation Center For Homeland defense & Security The Nation’s Homeland Security Educator Master’s Degree Program* • Designed to accommodate busy leaders; in-residence requirement of 12 weeks, with remainder of course work completed via network-based learning • 18 month program brings together local, state, tribal and federal leaders in a unique learning environment • Curriculum focused on strategy, policy and organizational design • Theses solve real-world policy and strategy challenges for participants’ organizations • Application deadlines are December 1 and May 1 Executive Leaders Program* • Non-degree graduate-level program for senior homeland security officials, including the private sector • Four one-week sessions over nine months accommodate busy executive schedules • Enhances capacity to identify and resolve homeland security issues and challenges • Strengthens working relationships across agencies, regions and jurisdictional lines • Application deadlines are January 15 and June 15 Executive Education Seminars • Intensive half day executive seminar for elected officials and urban area leaders in a neutral educational forum • Facilitated discussions identify homeland security challenges unique to each state or jurisdiction • Topics discussed in an interactive roundtable format utilizing multi-media scenarios • Conducted by Mobile Education Team (MET) comprised of nationally recognized subject matter experts Other CHDS Programs and Resources Include: • University and Agency Partnership Initiative (UAPI) • Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) • Homeland Security Affairs Journal • Self Study Courses For further information or to apply online visit us at www.chds.us *Program offered at no cost to eligible local, state, tribal and federal DHS officials.2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=54http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=54Homeland Security Education Directory Fairleigh Dickinson University » Go to www.HSToday.us > Resources > Directories > Education Directory for more details and contact information on each institution Undergraduate certificate programs: Disaster & Emergency Management; Security & Terrorism Management; and Transit Safety & Terrorism Studies. Graduate certificate programs: Computer Security & Forensic Administration;Global Security & Terrorism Studies; Global Health & Human Services Administration; Emergency Management & Administration;Computer Security & Forensic Administration; Global Leadership & Administration; Human Resources Administration; Law & Public Safety; School Security & Safety Administration. Graduate Certificate in Disaster Management and Concentrations in Disaster Management in the MPA, MPP , and PhD program in public policy. Multimodal Transportation, Logistics Management and Maritime Activities are just a few of the 140 plus core and customized courses, seminars and conferences offered. Many are MARAD recognized and USCG approved. GMATS develops and implements training in Nautical Science, Maritime Engineering, Transportation, Security and Management at our state-of-the-art facility with maritime industry professional instructors. Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Homeland Security and Defense Education Consortium Association Homeland Security and Homeland Defense Program Accreditation. Global Maritime & Transportation School Online Master of Science in Homeland Security Management and Online graduate-level Advanced Certificate in Homeland Security Management. Homeland Security Management Institute of Long Island University Houston Community College System Florida State University, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy Emergency Management Specialization and Certificates. Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE) Peace Officer Academy. We also offer Associate's degrees in criminal justice. PhD Biodefense, MS Biodefense; MPA and Graduate Certificate in emergency management and homeland security. Training initiatives include: National Emergency Medical Services Preparedness Initiative; National Nurse Emergency Preparedness Initiative;and International Council of Shopping Centers—GWU CBRNE Customized Terrorism Awareness Level Training for security officers. Biohazardous Threat Agents & Emerging Infectious Diseases;MS in Science Policy & Advocacy; Online Graduate Certificate in Biohazardous Threat Agents & Emerging Infectious Diseases. George Mason University Goodwin College Homeland Security. George Washington University (GWU) Professional Education and Associate Degree programs in various Public Safety, Emergency Healthcare, and Incident Response disciplines. Greenville Technical College Critical Incident Management Institute (CIMI) ISU’s Institute of Emergency Management has partnered with first responder agencies across the state to deliver education and training to meet the Homeland Security needs identified in the States’ Strategic Plan. Idaho State University Institute of Emergency Management Georgetown University Federal; State, Local and Nonprofit, Executive Skill Development, National Security, and Global Programs. Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Numerous courses in Homeland Security , Emergency Management, Public Safety, and Health Administration. Weapons of Mass Destruction—Response Element Advanced Laboratory Training and Indoctrination Program; Master of Science in Science for Disaster Response (MS in SDR) Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Henley-Putnam University Strategic Security Degrees. Indiana University of Pennsylvania GLOBAL ONLINE Educational Programs with a Unique Degree of Character. 100% ONLINE BS and MS in Legal Studies: • Law and Public Policy • Criminal Justice • Homeland Security – Certificate in Homeland Security also available The 100% online curriculum provides students with a st2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=55http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=55Homeland Security Education Directory Degree Program; Bachelor of Science—Natural Science/Science for Disaster Response (BS in SDR) Track Degree Program; and Specified Needs-Driven Courses Program. » Go to www.HSToday.us > Resources > Directories > Education Directory for more details and contact information on each institution International Trauma and Disaster Institute Massachusetts General Hospital Advanced Disaster Medical Response. MS in Computer Science with a Concentration in Information Assurance. Terrorist Agent Control Technology Certificate Program; Water Wastewater Degree Program; Agroterrorism Course; Mass Fatalities Course; and Hazardous Materials and Safety Courses. Online programs include: Associate Degree in Emergency Management (Homeland Security); Associate Degree in Fire Science Technology; Certificate Program in Emergency Management (Homeland Security); Certificate Program in Fire Science Technology. [Fire Science Technology Certificate and Degree are also available as a classroom based program]. Homeland Security AAS, Homeland Security Crime Scene Technology AAS, Homeland Security Certificate, Criminal Justice Security Threat Group Degree and Certificate. Johns Hopkins University Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals Loma Linda University, School of Allied Health Professions Emergency Medical Care, Bachelor of Science. Kirkwood Community College Domestic Preparedness for First Responders; Associate of Science/Arts in Criminal Justice Diploma Certificate. Iowa Central Community College Graduate Certificate in Emergency Preparedness and Response; Professional Certificate in Disaster Management. Loma Linda University, School of Public Health Luzerne County Community College Lakeland Community College Public Safety Training for all emergency responders and industry. Jacksonville State University Emergency Management. Mercy College Corporate and Homeland Security-Bachelor's Degree; Certificate in Corporate and Homeland Security. Mercyhurst College Johns Hopkins University 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 104 Washington, DC 20036 www.government.jhu.edu Ariel Roth, Ph.D. Associate Program Chair air@jhu.edu Programs Offered: Master of Arts in Global Security Studies; Certificate in National Security Studies; Master of Arts in Government with a Security Studies concentration. Lamar Institute of Technology Applied Intelligence, Graduate Degree; Intelligence Studies, Undergraduate;Applied Intelligence, Online Graduate Certificate. School for Public Affairs and Administration; Master’s in Public Administration—Emergency and Disaster Management. Bachelor of Applied Science in Public Safety Management. Metropolitan College of New York Lansing Community College Fire Science, EMS, Law Enforcement. Associate of Science Degree or Certificate in Homeland Security. Miami Dade College Laramie County Community College Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice Online Certificate in Homeland Security Studies. OUR COUNTRY. PROUD. UNWAVERING. FREE. At Excelsior College, the experience you have is rewarded with credit and more: • Maximum transfer of credit of prior college, academy and military training • Credit through Excelsior College® Examinations and portfolio assessment TARGET. © 2009 Excelsior College. All Rights Reserved. THE RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP US SAFE RESTS ON YOUR SHOULDERS. Each day countless conspirators threaten to change or halt our democratic way of life. From Cybercrimes and terrorist acts, to social crises and disaster management, we need to be prepared for the worst by relying on our best. And we know you want to be the best. Busy professionals across the country have chosen Excelsior College, an accredited leader in distance education, to advance their careers earning a • B.S. in Criminal Justice with a Homeland Security concentration • Flexibility in degree completion with online and CD-ROM courses • Affordable payment plans and Federal Financial Aid • Helpful advisors and2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=56http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=56Homeland Security Education Directory » Go to www.HSToday.us > Resources > Directories > Education Directory for more details and contact information on each institution Midway College Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security Corporate Management and Assessment. Computer Forensics, AAS; Criminal Justice Studies, AS; Law Enforcement, AS; Homeland AAS; HomeSecurity Specialist, land Security Basic Certificate; Emergency Homeland Security Management Certificate; Homeland Security Planning Certificate. College Monroe Community Offer training in and education Homeland Security. Minneapolis Community and Technical College New Jersey Institution of Technology MS Emergency Management and Business Continuity; Executive MS Homeland Security; certificate programs offered in both programs. Bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, as well as certificates of advanced graduate study in business and technology management, education and psychology. Specializations include Homeland Security, Criminal Justice, Public Administration, Organizational Leadership, and many more. Northcentral University, Center for Law Enforcement and Security AAS degrees in CJS, FSC, & EMP; Certificates in FSC and EMP; Indi AlsoPolice vidual courses. Academy and Fire Academy at Montgomery County Public Safety Training Campus. Mountain State University Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a Concentration in Homeland Security (In-seat/ Traditional) and Bachelor’s of Science in Criminal Justice with a Concentration in Homeland Security (On-Line). Montgomery County Community College Degrees at the Bachelor’s, Mas Doctoral ter’s and levels in Emergency Management. North Dakota State University Northern Virginia Community College Emergency Medical Services Technology; Fire Science. Northwestern University Master of Arts in Public Policy and Administration. Ten Masters programs including a Master’s of Arts in Diplomacy with concentrations in International Conflict Management, Inter national Terrorism, and International Commerce. Norwich University 1SFQBSJOHUIF /FYU(FOFSBUJPO PG-FBEFST 5VMBOFTVOJRVFBMMIB[BSET NJUJHBUJPOBQQSPBDI UP)PNFMBOE4FDVSJUZJT QSFQBSJOHUIFOFYU HFOFSBUJPOPG MFBEFSTGPSUIF EVBMNJTTJPOTPG FNFSHFODZNBOBHFNFOU BOEDPVOUFSUFSSPSJTN %POUTFUUMFGPSMFTT 0VS)PNFMBOE4FDVSJUZ4UVEJFT QSPHSBNPõ FSTBCBDIFMPSTEFHSFF BNJOPSBOEBQPTUCBDDBMBVSFBUFDFSUJm DBUF Beginning in spring 2010, we will also offer a Master of Professional Studies degree. 'PSNPSF*OGPSNBUJPO DPOUBDU,FJUI"NBDLFS BU PS LBNBDLFS!UVMBOFFEV Nash Community College Emergency Preparedness Technology. National Homeland Defense Foundation Homeland Defense and Security Symposium. Notre Dame College Associate of Science in Homeland Security; Associate of Science in Marine Technology (commercial diving) with a concentration in Homeland Security Management. Domestic Security Management (Homeland Security); Criminal Justice Administration; MS of Homeland Security and Safety Engineering. National Polytechnic College of Engineering and Oceaneering Certificate in Intelligence Analysis (Homeland Security) Certificate in Competitive (Business) Intelligence. National University XXXTDTUVMBOFFEV 54 November 2009 Master of Arts Degree Program, Executive Leadership Program, Mobile Education Team (MET) Seminars. Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security All-hazards Preparedness Basic and Intermediate and MRC Core Competency Courses are now available online; Executive level training and Customized Training can be developed to meet individual program/agency needs; Interdisciplinary onsite consultation teams available for onsite training and program assessment; MRC volunteer training programs available for community groups; Graduate education in public health preparedness available for public health professionals and those in the criminal justice system (online and classroom options). Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine-Center for Bioterror2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=57http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=57Homeland Security Education Directory Oakland Community College Purdue University, Purdue Homeland Security Institute » Go to www.HSToday.us > Resources > Directories > Education Directory for more details and contact information on each institution Combined Regional Emergency Services Training. Police, fire, emergency medical services, emergency preparedness, homeland security. Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Homeland Security; Homeland Security Master’s Area of Specialization; Eta Sigma Iota Professional Student Organization. PENN STATE | ONLINE Non-Profit Organization of Community/Technical Colleges that offer environmental technology, health, safety, energy, homeland security programs and related programs. Affiliated Council of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Master of Homeland Security in Public Health Preparedness; Bioterrorism Preparedness (Graduate Certificate); Disaster Preparedness (Graduate Certificate); Certificate in Homeland Security and Defense. Master of Professional Studies in Forensic Science; Master of Homeland Security in Public Health Preparedness; Bachelor of Science in Forensic Science; Bachelor of Science in Security and Risk Analysis; Graduate Certificate in Bioterrorism Preparedness; Graduate Certificate in Disaster Preparedness; Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence; Homeland Security and Defense Post Baccalaureate Credit Certificate Program. Master of Science—Disaster Medicine and Management. Credit certificates offered in disaster medicine and management, and Business and Crisis continuity. Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE) Criminal Justice, Emergency Management, Fire Science, HAZMAT/ WMD, Homeland Security, Healthcare/Medical Services, and Law Enforcement. Red Rocks Community College Penn State World Campus Master of Arts in Criminal Justice with tracks in Homeland Security and Forensic Psychology; Post MA Degree Certificates in Homeland Security and Forensic Psychology. Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Rivier College Pennsylvania State University Certificate in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Security Technology Management; Security Technology Policy, Law and Ethics; Managing Cyber Threats and Critical Information; Internal Organization Security Management; Examining Terrorist Groups; Economics of PoliticalViolence; Toxin Chemical, Weapon Threats and Defense; Intelligence Analysis; Bacterial & Viral Weapon Threats and Defense; Radiological Threats and Defense. Rochester Institute of Technology Are you prepared? My position in the New York City Fire Department demanded a thorough knowledge of the potential disasters, both natural and man-made. I turned to Penn State’s online homeland security programs to gain the skills I needed. —Brian White, Battalion Chief, FDNY Philadelphia University Homeland Security—Emergency Management; Approved certificate and an Associate's degree in Fire Science Technology. Pikes Peak Community College Graduate Master’s Degree in Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness, Certificate Program in Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness. Bachelor’s degree in Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM); Undergraduate 15hour certificate (available online) in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Homeland Security Associate Degree. BA in Public Administration with a concentration in Emergency Management. Saint Louis University, Institute for Bio-Security Become a leader Master of Homeland Security in Public Health Preparedness Postbaccalaureate Certi cate in Homeland Security and Defense Graduate Certi cate in Disaster Preparedness Graduate Certi cate in Bioterrorism Preparedness Savannah State University Post University BS Criminal Justice. Provides training on a systematic threat mitigation system called the ProActive Terrorist Recognition and Interdiction Operations and Tactics System. Protecting the Homeland Innovations LLC Schoolcraft College Shaw University SIG Homeland Securit2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=58http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=58Homeland Security Education Directory Southwestern College » Go to www.HSToday.us > Resources > Directories > Education Directory for more details and contact information on each institution Administration; Law Enforcement Academy. Master of Science in Security Administration, Master of Science in Management, Bachelor of Science in Security Management, Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice,Homeland Security Certificate, Cyber Crime Investigation Certificate, Emergency Planning Certificate, Enterprise Risk Management Certificate. Series 100—Understanding and Combating Terrorism; Series 200—Preventing, Identifying and Investigating;Series 300—WMD: Anticipation, Preparation, and Prevention for First Responders and Medical Personnel; Series 400—Investigating, Preventing & Surviving Terrorism (Law Enforcement only). Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation Fellowships in Science, Technology , and International Security;Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships in International Security; Interschool Honors Program in International Security. Master of Science in Sport Management, emphasis in Sport Security Management; Online Sport Security Management Certificate. Security Studies: Homeland Security and Defense. Bachelor of Science in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, BSHS in Administration of Justice, BA in Criminal Justice, BSHS in Emergency Disaster Services, Graduate certificate in Homeland Security, BSAST in Fire Protection Science. The University of Southern Mississippi The University of Texas at San Antonio St. Clair County Community College SUNY Canton College of Technology Bachelor of Technology in Emergency Management. Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. Thomas Edison State College Syracuse University St. Mary’s University School of Law, Center for Terrorism Law Terrorism Law. Tarrant County College, Public Safety Institute Associate Degree in Science in Emergency Administration & Management; Bachelor in Applied Science in Public Safety Administration;Certificates in EmergencyAdministration & Management;Certificate of Homeland Security; Certificate in Maritime Security;and Non-credit courses through the National Terrorism Preparedness Institute;Associates degree in Fire Science Technology and the following Fire Science certificates: Fire Inspector I & II,Fire Investigator I, and Fire Officer I & II;Associate in Science in Information Technology (IT) Security;Criminal Justice TechnologyAssociate in Science Degree; Bachelor of Applied Science in Public Safety St. Petersburg College Public Safety Institute: Homeland Security Training Center, Criminal Justice Training Center, Fire Service Training Center. Ti Training Corp. Tiffin University Lab—Use-of-Force Simulator. Bachelor’s in CJ; Associate’s in CJ; Master’s of Science in CJ. Integrated Homeland Security Management Program. Texas A&M University Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security. Master of Science in Transportation Planning and Management; Bachelor of Science in Maritime Transportation Management and Security. The University of Fairfax, founded in 2002 in response to 9/11, is a non-profit institution certified by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia. Texas Southern University Towson University Trinidad State Junior College Troy University The University of Fairfax Occupational Safety and Health Technology. Bachelor’s of Science in Criminal Justice, Master’s of Science in Criminal Justice, Master’s of Science in International Relations. Take your career to new heights.become a skilled Homeland Security Professional competition when it comes to landing that next job or promotion Enjoy these exciting advantages: * * * * Courses developed in collaboration with US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), Beth-El College of Nursing Online and traditional classroom style courses available Learn from experienced professionals working in the nation’s Homeland Security/Defense center of excellence Apply courses to2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=59http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=59Homeland Security Education Directory Tulane University, School of Continuing Studies » Go to www.HSToday.us > Resources > Directories > Education Directory for more details and contact information on each institution Bachelor’s of Arts, minor and a post-baccalaureate certificate in Homeland Security Studies. Beginning in Spring 2010, a Masters of Professional Studies (MPS) in Homeland Security will be offered. ism Studies and Intelligence Analysis; Undergraduate Minor in Terrorism Studies; Critical Language Study. Graduate course in Emergency Preparedness in Schools: Prevention, Response, and Recovery. Master of Science in Criminal Justice. University of Albany, State University of New York University of Cincinnati Homeland Security Management Program; Bachelor’s of Science in Emergency Management, Bachelor’s of Science in Homeland Security and Bachelor’s of Science in Information Assurance. Master’s of Science in Information Technology, Master’s of Science in Management, Master’s of Science in Technology Management, Master’s of Science in Biotechnology Studies: Biosecurity and Biodefense. University of Maryland University College Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security Leadership Strategic planning for the next generation of homeland security leaders. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Center for Homeland Security, National Institute of Science, Space and Security Centers Graduate Certificates in Homeland Defense, National Security Intelligence and Disaster Public Health. Undergraduate Certificates in Homeland Security and Disaster Public Health. Executive Masters of Science Degree in Crisis and Emergency Management. University of Nevada, Las Vegas University of Nevada, Reno Fire Science Academy Disaster Management, Industrial Firefighting, Technical Rescue, Hazardous Materials. Undergraduate Programs: Criminal Justice (B.S.) (A.S.); Forensic Science (B.S.); Fire Science (B.S.); Fire Protection Engineering (B.S.); Fire & Occupational Safety (A.S.); Legal Studies (B.S.) (A.S.). Graduate Programs: Criminal Justice; Forensic Science; Fire Science; National Security. National Security Certificates: National Security; National Security Administration; National Security Technology; Information Protection and Security. Master of Public Administration; Specialization in Hazard Policy. University of Connecticut Center for Continuing Studies University of New Haven Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security Leadership. University of Dallas, GSM Information Assurance. Applications now being accepted for Master’s and graduate level certificate in Homeland Security. University of Denver Fall 2010 is 2-year part-time, online degree program is designed to meet the needs of the mid-career professional. Courses can be taken from any location at any time. Emphasis is on developing capabilities in collaborative leadership, critical thinking and teamwork, all necessary for assuming strategic leadership roles in the area of homeland security. For more information, contact Donna Lee Campbell donna.campbell@uconn.edu or 860-486-0184 Graduate School of International Studies Homeland Security Program. University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies University of New Orleans Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response (DPEM), Justice Administration, Public Administration, Health Care Administration, Forensic Anthropology, Security Administration (2009). University of Hawaii, West Oahu Certificate in Community Preparedness and Disaster Management (CPDM), Master’s of Science in Disaster Management (MSDM). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Idaho Emergency Management and Planning Certificate. Emergency Management and Continuity Planning Online Campus Certificate Program. University of Illinois at Chicago University of Maryland Graduate Certificates in: Terror- Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Administration and Planning. Master’s and PhD in Public Administration and Management (with a conce2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=60http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=60Homeland Security Education Directory University of Oklahoma » Go to www.HSToday.us > Resources > Directories > Education Directory for more details and contact information on each institution MPH in Preparedness, Master of Public Health; Continuing Education and Training. Homeland Security; Bachelor’s of Science in Emergency and Disaster Management. Vincennes University University of South Florida, Colleges of Medicine and Public Health University of Southern California Bachelor of Science Degree in Homeland Security and Public Safety. Bachelor’s of Arts in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Master’s of Arts and Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Homeland Security Medical Executive Course. National Center for Risk & Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism. offers an Associate in Applied Science in Criminal Justice. West Kentucky Community and Technical College offers two programs in Homeland Security/Emergency Management. One leads to a Certificate and the other to an Associate in Applied Science in Homeland Security/Emergency Management. Virginia Commonwealth University West Texas A&M University Emergency Management Administration. Western Carolina University Western Illinois University Emergency & Disaster Management Program. Homeland Security Research Program (HSRP). University of Tennessee, Graduate School of Medicine VMC/Homeland Security Programs at West Virginia University Graduate Medical Fellowship in Homeland Security Studies. University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice with a Concentration in Homeland Security, Annual Symposium on Education & Border Security and Immigration. Homeland Security Planning for Campus Executives (direct delivery); Homeland Security Planning for Campus Presidents (Webcast); Campus Public Safety Response to WMD Incidents (online); Forensic Epidemiology (online). Western Iowa Tech Community College Walden University Police Science, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency & Disaster Management, Fire Science. Various courses on National Security Law; summer National Security Law Institute for law professors and government attorneys. Master in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures (MSPCI). University of Virginia School of Law, Center for National Security Law Public Policy and Administration (Master’s and Doctoral). Master of Science in Information Assurance; Certificate Programs including: Information Assurance, Chief Information Security Officer, Compliance Governance and Audit, and Digital Forensics. Wilmington University Criminal Justice Program. Walsh College Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare Workers. If your institution is not listed in this directory, and you would like it to be listed in the future, please contact HSToday by emailing dyoung@hstoday.us. The information in this directory is deemed correct but not guaranteed. Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response University of Washington Upper Iowa University Master’s of Public Administration: emphasis in The Criminal Justice program at West Kentucky Community and Technical College West Kentucky Community and Technical College UMUC HOMELAND SECURITY PROJECTED JOB GROWTH: 23% OVER THE NEXT DEC ADE. Global uncertainty and billions of federal stimulus dollars are creating thousands of jobs in homeland security. Be ready by enrolling in an undergraduate or graduate program in homeland security from University of Maryland University College (UMUC). UMUC’s unique curriculum goes beyond the hypothetical to provide practical, cutting-edge instruction. 8dckZc^Zcidca^cZXaVhhZh!iVj\]iWnegd[Zhh^dcVahl^i]gZVa"ldgaYZmeZg^ZcXZ HX]daVgh]^eh!adVchVcYVc^ciZgZhi"[gZZbdci]aneVnbZcieaVcVkV^aVWaZ CdH6I!<G:dg<B6IgZfj^gZY Copyright © 2009 University of Maryland University College Enroll now. Call 800-888-UMUC or visit umuc.edu/getahead This month’s issue is now available online at… 58 November 2009 | 2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=61http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=61Homeland Security Education Directory » Go to www.HSToday.us > Resources > Directories > Education Directory for more details and contact information on each institution & % $ # ""# ! $ # ! ! ! ! $ # & $ ! # ! " $ " ! ! # # " ! ! ! ! $ # # # # % $ " # " ! " ! # ! $ ! ! # $ # # ! " # # ! # ! # # ! COMING IN DECEMBER The homeland Security market is maturing and there will be significant opportunities in 2010. In the December issue of Homeland Security Today, Business Editor Philip Leggiere provides a snapshot of the homeland security industry’s key business indices—growth and demand trends, deal flow, funding pipelines, market share dynamics, and innovation curves—a must read for solution providers as well as procurement decisionmakers. Reserve your advertising space today by contacting your sales representative at sales@hstoday.us or 1-800-503-6506. Homeland Security Business 2009 An Industry in Transition Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters Homeland Security Magazine | November 2009 592009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=62http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=62TOOLS&TECHNOLOGY Web-based adLib technology helps makes sense of video and geospatial data EchoStorm, Suffolk, Va., a developer of video and data management technology for military, government and commercial applications, has released adLib, a technology designed to connect multiple video and sensor data streams and provide a central access point to actionable intelligence. The technology is Java and Web-based, meaning that no client installation is necessary. The technology is interoperable with numerous data sources and is able to connect differing legacy technologies and systems. The platform leverages a blend of service-oriented architecture, open standards and Web services to let users manage and deliver large files rapidly regardless of their network connection. (Source: EchoStorm) 3M unveils mobile APIS solution for CBP passenger screening 3M, St. Paul, Minn., a research and technology development firm, has announced the 3M Mobile Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) Solution, composed of the 3M Mobile ID Reader and new 3M APIS client/server software. This solution offers charter companies, general aviation and fixed-based operators a new way to collect, store, validate and transmit APIS data for Customs and Border Protection passenger screening with forwarding to the Transportation Security Agency for vetting. Rules recently instated by the Department of Homeland Security now require submission of electronic notices of arrival and departure of international flights for private and general aviation, as well as electronic manifests relative to passe ngers and crew. The 3M Mobile APIS Solution simplifies the APIS manifest submission process for users by collecting data via one simple swipe of the passport, identification card, visa or other security credential rather than manually entering data for all persons on an aircraft. (Source: 3M) AS&E introduces Sentry Portal cargo inspection system for ports, borders, and checkpoints American Science and Engineering Inc (AS&E), Billerica, Mass., a supplier of X-ray detection solutions, has announced the introduction of the Sentry Portal, a highthroughput, high-penetration, drive-through cargo inspection system designed to quickly and safely scan trucks, cargo containers and tanker trucks for threatening materials, weapons and contraband. The Sentry Portal system is a solution for high-volume seaports, border crossings and security checkpoints. It can also be deployed along with AS&E’s multi-view Z Portal screening system for three-sided imaging of the entire vehicle (including the cab) and the detection of organic materials such as drugs, explosives or stowaways. (Source: AS&E) 60 November 2009 | Homeland Security Today Magazine This month’s issue is now available online at…2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=63http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=63Worrell Water Technologies introduces water safety, security and control product Worrell Water Technologies (WWT), Charlottesville, Va., is offering its new HydroSecure II water purification system, previously used at secure government facilities, to civilian government and consumer purchasers. HydroSecure II is a point-of-entry water purification system that combines commercial water filtration and purification components with proprietary technology. A unit for a residence or small business can treat approximately 2,000 gallons per day. The unit is approximately 6-feet high, 3.5-feet wide and 2.5feet deep, similar in size to a large, side-by-side refrigerator. Larger units are available. It is controlled through a password-protected touch screen on the front of the unit. The system can be placed in an existing or new structure. It requires a water supply line, electric power, a drain and, if the purchaser desires, an Internet connection. (Source: Worrell) Postal Circulation Statement 2009 Publication title.HomelandSecurityToday Publication number .1553-3670 Issue date for circulation data below .Sept. 1, 2009 Date of filing .Sept. 25, 2009 Frequency of magazine .Monthly Number of issues annually .12 Complete mailing address of headquarters or general business office: Full names and complete mailing addresses of publisher, editor, and managing editor: KMD Media LLC, 6800 Fleetwood Road, #114, McLean, VA Editor: David Sliverberg Managing Editor: Anthony Kimery Owner(s): KMD Media LLC, 6800 Fleetwood Road, #114, McLean, VA Kimberly S. Hanson-Brown, 30096 Mine Run Road, Unionville, VA 22567 Michelle A. Wandres, 21745 Brink Meadow Lane, Germantown, MD 20876 Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: None Average No. copies each issue during preceding 12 months No. copies of single issue published nearest to filing date Total number of copies (net press run) Outside-county paid/requested mail subscriptions In-county paid/requested mail subscriptions Sales through dealers and carriers outside USPS Requested copies distributed by other mail classes Total paid distribution Nonrequested outside-county copies Nonrequested copies in-county copies Nonrequested copies distributed through USPS Nonrequested copies distributed outside the mail Total nonrequested distribution Total distribution Copies not distributed Total Percent paid and/or requested circulation 39,326 34,227 0 176 0 34,403 1,677 0 0 1,321 2,998 37,401 1,925 39,326 92% 36,868 31,948 0 283 0 32,231 1,785 0 9 1,100 2,885 35,116 1,752 36,868 91.8% Anchor Audio Liberty sound system launches new system Anchor Audio Inc., Torrance, Calif., a developer of audio and video solutions, has introduced Liberty Platinum, a battery-powered portable sound system that produces 100 watts of sound and reaches crowds of up to 1,000 people. The system uses a lightweight, 10-inch neodymium speaker and polypropylene enclosure to reduce its total weight to 38 pounds. This is designed to make it easier to transport and set up any of the models, which may include an MP3 player and up to two wireless microphones. It also features extended battery life, a battery charging indicator, lightemitting diode lights and protected knobs and connectors. The product can be used for public address or outdoor venues where power is not available. (Source: Anchor Audio Inc.) 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The Homeland Security Industry in Transition The year ahead looks to be an active one for homeland security-related businesses. We take the temperature and look at the prospects. WMD: No Time to Relax A Year of Building on the Border It was the unheralded steps forward that made the difference on border security in 2009—and more progress is promised for 2010. With recent arrests in Colorado, Texas and Illinois, it’s clear that the terrorist threat to the American homeland has not diminished—but neither have the efforts to thwart it. Homeland Security and the Stimulus Also… Ⅲ Homeland Security Innovators Guide Ⅲ Responders Today: Securing Communications Ⅲ Agency Spotlight: Dept. of Energy Much of the money that was pumped into government agencies to fight the recession has been committed—but much also remains to be spent. We look at how it’s being used and where it’s likely to go. Also… Ⅲ Responders Today: Logistics and preparedness Ⅲ Agency Spotlight: FBI To advertise in this issue, call 1-800-503-6506 or email dyoung@HSToday.us2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=66http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=66LEADERSHIP PROFILE BY DAVID SILVERBERG Industrial Defender, a privately held company. Today, Industrial Defender has done more than 100 process control and SCADA cybersecurity assessments and is managing security services for over 170 plants in 21 countries. Thanks to its activities, it has revealed over 32,000 SCADA vulnerabilities. SCADA—SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION—SOFTWARE HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN AS THE SOFT UNDERBELLY OF AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE. Hackers, challengers and serious critics have long pointed out vulnerabilities in the system that runs many of America’s utilities, major industrial plants and critical grids. The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, gave urgency to the need to secure this vast network of increasingly interconnected systems. But the real alarm arrived in the form of a major electrical blackout in August 2003. “The August 2003 blackout in the northeast was certainly a catalyst and served as a wake-up call to how vulnerable our infrastructure was and I would say was the impetus behind the standards that were issued for the utility sector,” observed Brian Ahern, president and chief executive officer of Industrial Defender. “Over the last five years that I’ve been coming [to Washington, DC] it’s been amazing to see the evolution of thinking away from traditional enterprise security to SCADA. Five years ago, I would come and I would not be able to hold a five-minute meeting to discuss it. Now I come and I spend hours and hours with folks at [the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] and [North American Electric Reliability Corporation] and the various committees, so it’s exciting times.” Industrial Defender Inc., Foxborough, Mass., is a company that is purely dedicated to securing SCADA-dependent enterprises and infrastructure. It does this by being able to do a complete evaluation of an enterprise’s security, starting with risk assessment. However, Industrial Defender doesn’t just examine vulnerabilities; it has also developed software solutions to address them and has come out with four generations of its technology suite covering cyber vulnerabilities, industrial control and SCADA systems. “Assessing the risk drives us to evolve technology to address those risks and then manage them in real time,” said Ahern. “We’re very well positioned and enjoying quite a bit of success.” Legacy challenges Ahern sees much of his challenge in the SCADA legacy systems of the 1980s and 1990s. Back then, security was not a major factor. Rather, the issue was to get different systems operating together— but allowing a business system to interact with an industrial control system invited mischief, as people realized in the wake of 9/11. “The fact of the matter is that our legacy infrastructure in this nation is 15 or 20 years old and it hasn’t been upgraded because there’s that mentality that if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it,” Ahern said. “Now we’re faced with the fact that in interests of efficiency SCADA has been intertwined with the business systems and the Internet.” That invites hacking and potentially devastating sabotage, but Ahern is encouraged that action is being take on both the private and public fronts. “The Bush administration’s perspective was to get voluntary compliance by the private sector. And so our experience in the private sector was that you had folks that understood the risks associated with cybersecurity and proactively took it upon themselves to drive actions. [But] you had others who would ask, ‘What is the probability of risk?’ and drive purchasing decisions as a result of that. “The Obama administration has stated that cybersecurity is a key initiative, and his intent to appoint a national cyber advisor has emphasized that point even more. There is real activity going on right now.” What is more, he noted, “Not only has the need to address cybersecurity and critical infrastructure been elevated to the forefront, there’s actually real action being taken on the Hill to address this.” Wherever th2009-11-22T20:29:01+01:00http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=67http://ipaperus.ipaperus.com/HomelandSecurityToday/November2009/?Page=67Homeland Security Infrastructure Protection Because terror knows no bounds. Developing and deploying technology to assess the situation; identifying the threat; getting crisp information where it needs to go, so timely action can be taken. 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