How Many Reports Does It Take To Act?
The front page, banner headline of today’s Washington Times states the following: “Disaster plans leave the disabled behind.” In what they term as an exclusive, Times Reporter, Audrey Hudson reports on the findings of newly issued report by the...
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Yesterday the US Senate’s Ad hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery held a hearing on “Focusing on Children in Disasters: Evacuation Planning and Mental Health Recovery.” With notable witnesses including FEMA Administrator, Craig Fugate and Mark Shriver of Save...
DetailsQHSR – Having the Conversation We Never Had
If you work in the homeland security arena, you’d literally have to be under a very large rock or on another planet to not know that DHS is in the midst of its first ever, Quadrennial Homeland Security Review...
DetailsCommunications – The Muscle Not Exercised
This week, DHS, various federal departments, a range of state, local and tribal governments as well as members of the private sector, and international participants are taking part in the National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE09). The successor to...
DetailsHeightened Color-Coded Alerts Guide Security Measures
The color-coded threat alert system may regularly be the butt of jokes but it serves an important purpose that a new task force must refine, one of its members told HSToday.us in an exclusive interview.Although sometimes appropriately ridiculed, the...
DetailsSunday’s Post – The Making of a Secret Service Agent
Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine (July 26, 2009), profiled the intense and what can only be described grueling process to become a Special Agent of the US Secret Service. Taking you through the backgrounds of some of the members...
DetailsDon’t overlook the SAFTEY Act of 2002
Like most people who hear about the SAFETY Act for the first time, you may think it has something to do with safety. In this case, however, "SAFETY" stands for Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act, a law...
DetailsCongress Gets an ‘F’
Kudos to Politico, and in particular Sarah Laskow of the Center for Public Integrity for their FRONT PAGE story in today’s issue (July 16, 2009) on the perpetual and ongoing train-wreck that is Congressional oversight of the Department of...
DetailsBehold – The Answers Have Arrived
Last year the Department of Homeland Security asked the President’s private sector advisors on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) to examine the following question: What impedes the nation’s ability to respond and recover from a major disaster resulting...
DetailsNapolitano Announces Task Force to Review Warning System
The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to restructure the color-coded terror alert system.The task force is made up of Democrats and Republicans, elected officials at the state and local level, security experts, and law enforcement officials.Co-chairing the task...
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