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National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Security Beat Chemical Plant Protection Legislation on the Way... DHS, State Department Wage Visa War... Document Requirements Waived for Hurricane Victims... U.S. Court Blocks Enforcement of Personnel Rules... etc.
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	Blueprint For Homeland Security The Defense Department is working on a comprehensive homeland defense strategy that will detail the Pentagon's emerging role in protecting the United States from terrorist attack
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Drones Patrolling the Border The Border Patrol will fly a second unmanned aerial vehicle over the Arizona desert beginning this June. The first Predator B flight assisted in nabbing more than 1,000 illegal immigrants and 400 pounds of narcotics.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Troops Use Frontier for Real-World Training The U.S. Army's Joint Task Force North had its origins in the beginning of the so-called war on drugs in the late 1980s. Its goal is to support law enforcement agencies to deter transnational threats to the homeland.
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson	Feds lagging in most disaster scenarios, McHale says The federal government has identified 15 homeland disaster scenarios for which it must prepare. But does making lists equate to preparedness?
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Hunters Unearth Smuggling Tunnels Authorities along the border with Mexico have uncovered the longest underground smuggling passageway discovered by law enforcement so far. Training and technology used to hunt tunnels along the Mexican and Canadian borders has immediate applications in Southwest Asia.
National Defense February 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	U.S. Has Strategy for Homeland Security, But Are We Ready? In October, the White House issued an updated "National Strategy for Homeland Security," which is intended to guide, organize and unify the nation's homeland security efforts.
National Defense January 2006 Stew Magnuson	Security Beat Coast Guard Drops In on Lawbreakers... Chief Medical Officer's Role Pondered... Divorce for FEMA; Marriage for Customs?... Visa Malfeasance Eyed... HAZMAT Law in Line for Changes... TSA, Army Test Bomb Detector...
National Defense February 2006 Stew Magnuson	Smart Fence, Not Stupid Fence, Says Chertoff Security Beat: Smart Fences for Border Control... DHS Scraps Flight List Plan... Coast Guard to Deploy UAV... N.J. Beefs Up Chemical Plant Security... FEMA Struggled to Track Commodities... etc.
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson	DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies.
National Defense December 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Tunnel Detection Test Site in the Works The Defense and Homeland Security Departments are expected to break ground during the coming year on a joint clandestine tunnel detection test site at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona.
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson	Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks.
National Defense July 2008 Stew Magnuson	Contentious Debate Over Border Fences Won't End Soon Dormant as a national issue until late 2005, securing the southern border suddenly became an intensely debated subject and a political hot potato.
National Defense July 2006 Harold Kennedy	After Several Recent National Disasters, Gaps in Emergency Communications Still Not Fixed The ability of military and civilian first responders to communicate during major national emergencies is improving, but roadblocks remain. Among the problems is that many first responders lack adequate knowledge of their communications equipment.
National Defense February 2009 Stew Magnuson	DHS Leaders Inherit Litany of Procurement Woes There is a new administration and a new Congress. But will it be a new day for the way the Department of Homeland Security acquires technology?
Reason March 2006 Veronique de Rugy	Are We Ready for the Next 9/11? The sorry state -- and stunning waste -- of homeland security spending.
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol Wages Daily Battle Against Smugglers As new immigration legislation winds through the House and Senate this year -- and lawmakers debate the 2007 budget request for boosts in both technology funding and manpower -- the demand in the US for cheap labor and narcotics promises to continue unabated.
National Defense August 2004 Joe Pappalardo	U.S.-Mexico Rapport Transformed by Terrorist Threat Efforts are under way on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to reform the national security relationship between the two nations in response to increased terrorism fears.
National Defense June 2007 Stew Magnuson	National Guard, Army Chemical Units Criticized for Being Untrained, Unprepared Acute shortages of equipment and personnel means less time, or no time, to train.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	DHS Intelligence Nominee to Revamp Beleaguered Office's Hiring Practices Caryn Wagner, nominee to be undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, said she will try to improve the low morale, high turnover and slow hiring process at the organization.
National Defense August 2006 Stew Magnuson	Former staffer becomes leading DHS critic Former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin has emerged in recent months as one of the department's leading critics, and one with some credibility.
National Defense September 2009 Magnuson & Breitbach	Tech vs. Terrorism For every threat to the homeland, there's a business that has a technology waiting in the wings to counter a would-be terrorist's moves.
National Defense August 2009 Gellerson & Breitbach	House Attempts to Extend Chemical Security Act The House of Representatives is working on extending a law set to expire in October that aims to harden chemical facilities against terrorist attacks.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Plans Under Way to Beef Up Porous Northern Border The northern border between the U.S. and Canada has its own set of issues in that the smuggling and drug trafficking is bi-directional. The administration intend to beef up security along this border.
National Defense September 2005 Harold Kennedy	Homeland Security Steps Up Emphasis On Preparedness The Department of Homeland Security and the American Red Cross have declared September to be National Preparedness Month. The DHS has undergone major restructuring under Chertoff, but some are critical of how resources are allocated.
Chemistry World July 1, 2009 Rebecca Trager	Chemical security efforts spread The EU and the US are simultaneously taking action in a bid to secure chemical facilities and prevent their misuse by terrorists.
National Defense November 2012 Erwin et al.	Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice.
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	DHS Technology Budget To Exceed $1B in 2005 An array of emerging technologies is the key to defending the United States from its enemies, according to Charles E. McQueary, undersecretary of homeland security for science and technology.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	Firms That Help DHS Save Money Will Make Money, Analysts Say The days of big price tag, cutting-edge technology acquisitions at the Department of Homeland Security are over.
National Defense March 2005 Harold Kennedy	Homeland Defense The Defense Department's agency in charge of developing chemical and biological defense technologies is shifting its focus from large-scale incidents on the battlefield to small-scale terrorist attacks against civilians.
Chemistry World December 22, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Chemical facility anti-terrorism laws renewed for four years The measure makes a series of key changes to the Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards to improve its efficiency and effectiveness.
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson	Defense, Law-Enforcement Agencies Seek Advanced Surveillance Tools Suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and the threats of chemical or biological weapons are creating increased demand for cutting edge technologies that can detect or survey potential hazards from stand-off distances.
National Defense February 2007 Stew Magnuson	DHS Technology Chief to Focus on Explosives Threat The Pentagon will have some help in its ongoing effort to defeat improvised explosive devices if Jay Cohen, director of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, gets his way.
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson	Budget Woes May Force Homeland Security To Cut Missions Sequester or no sequester, the Department of Homeland Security is in store for changes, a Senate Appropriations Committee staffer predicted.
National Defense June 2004 Pappalardo & Erwin	Security Beat Law enforcement agencies, using grant money from the federal government, increasingly are investing in robots to prepare for domestic threats.
National Defense February 2007 Stew Magnuson	Daunting Challenges Face Those Waging Subterranean Warfare More and more adversarial countries are building networks of underground tunnels. The U.S. military needs to be prepared to fight underground.
National Defense April 2009 Rusling et al.	Senators Oppose FEMA Divorce From Homeland Security Dept. A Congressional report took a historical look at FEMA -- the good times and bad -- and concluded that the agency didn't necessarily perform well when it stood alone.
National Defense September 2005 Grace Jean	Guard Balancing Emerging Roles in Homeland Defense The National Guard continues to expand its missions in support of homeland defense, even as it contends with frequent overseas deployments, equipment shortages and low recruiting levels.
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo	U.S.-Canadian Border Crossings to Tighten Security The bridges and border control stations on the U.S.-Canada border are undergoing strategic overhauls, not only to increase security but also to ensure rapid throughput of commercial traffic, leaders from both nations recently announced.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Feds Begin to Tackle the Vexing Problem of How to Defeat Homemade Bombs Congress' attention remains focused on preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil, but improvised explosive devices do not receive the same attention as the chemical, biological or nuclear threats.
National Defense November 2011 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol to Unveil New Strategy, Doctrine The Border Patrol will release a revamped strategy by the end of the year that will reflect new realities on the ground as well as the influx of technologies it has received during the past decade.
National Defense August 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Securitybeat Congress Rejects Post-Disaster Continuity Amendment... Homeland Defense War Game Tests Interoperability... Truck Detector Test Program Underway in El Paso... Intelligence Center Collates Transportation Data... etc.
National Defense June 2011 Stew Magnuson	When it Comes to Cybersecurity, the 'Who is Responsible for What?' Debate Continues Most experts seem to agree that the U.S. government's collective efforts to secure the Internet from large-scale attacks and other nefarious activities are lacking.
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson	Tunnel Detection Task Force Speeds Sensors, Robots to Border A federal task force organized to halt the construction of illegal tunnels being built underneath the U.S.-Mexico border has begun deploying ground sensors and robots in the Southwest.
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson	7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.
National Defense May 2004 Kennedy & Tiron	Securitybeat U.S. Beefs Up Security On Railway Systems... Budget Amendment Good News for DHS... Air Force Adopts Biometrics Security Systems... etc.
National Defense September 2010 Magnuson & Fugate	DHS May Wait 14 Years To Complete Its UAV Fleet Department of Homeland Security officials said they need 24 unmanned aerial vehicles to patrol the U.S. border, and carry out other domestic missions such as disaster relief.
National Defense September 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr.	Department of Homeland Security on the Right Track The Department of Homeland Security is taking aggressive steps to help the nation's state and local governments, as well as first responders, prepare for the worst-case scenario.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Bad News All Around for DHS Cargo Technology Programs The Department of Homeland Security's advanced radiation detection portal monitor program continues to struggle.
Chemistry World June 12, 2014 Rebecca Trager	US agencies report back on safeguarding chemical plants A long-awaited plan to bolster the safety of US chemical plants is facing some industry opposition.