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National Defense October 2015 Stew Magnuson	Bomb Squads Need the Best Tools Available Bomb squads -- both military and civilian -- deserve and need the very best technologies the nation can offer them.
National Defense July 2013 Stew Magnuson	Survey Exposes Flaw in Domestic Improvised Explosive Device Reporting System A survey of bomb squads in the United States found that only a small percentage of improvised explosive device incidents are reported to a national database, said a federal official tasked with preventing terrorist bombings.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Pentagon Still Playing Catch-Up With Bomb Makers The U.S. military's cadre of bomb disposal technicians needs lighter equipment, the ability to detect explosives at stand-off distances and their sensors consolidated into one handheld device.
National Defense May 2010 Stew Magnuson	With No Budget, Joint Federal Office Tackles High Explosives Problem The Joint Program Office for Combating Terrorist Use of Explosives recently marked its one-year anniversary and is beginning to tick off items on a long list of recommendations designed to thwart terrorists from employing bombs on U.S. soil.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Plan to Create Center To Thwart Domestic Bombings Falls Short A proposal to put under one roof representatives of government agencies that are involved in thwarting the use of explosives as weapons of terror in the United States has been scrapped.
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 May 2005 Harold Kennedy	Anti-Terrorism Focus A government research organization that traditionally has concentrated on homeland defense efforts is shifting its attention to the problem of improvised explosive devices, which are taking a heavy toll on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq.
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson	7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.
National Defense June 2007 Stew Magnuson	Bomb Making Skills Spread Globally The war in Iraq is accelerating the development of IED technology as terrorists and insurgents are forced to adapt their methods to defeat countermeasures.
National Defense March 2007 Stew Magnuson	Congress, DHS Turn Their Attention to Guarding Ground Transportation In the wake of 9/11, upgrading aviation security received justifiable attention. Last year, maritime security was addressed in the SAFE Port Act. Now, there is consensus in Congress that 2007 will be surface transportation's turn.
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Glenn Zorpette	Countering IEDS Billions of dollars spent on defeating improvised explosive devices are beginning to show what technology can and cannot do for the evolving struggle
National Defense April 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Beat The biggest challenge facing the maritime transportation industry is ensuring that legitimate cargo is not needlessly delayed as new security measures are implemented.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Cohen puts imprint on beleaguered Homeland Security technology arm "Our aim is to remove seams," says Jay Cohen, undersecretary of science and technology told National Defense.
National Defense October 2015 Stew Magnuson	JIEDDO Emerges From Wars as Combat Support Agency In May, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization was given a new name and a permanent place in the Pentagon bureaucracy under acquisition, technology and logistics at the office of the secretary of defense.
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy	At Special Ops Forum, Experts Weigh Prospect of WMD Attacks As military leaders devote increasing attention to neutralizing roadside bombs in Iraq, specialists caution that it would be a mistake to dismiss the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006	Nine Cautionary Tales If terrorists decide to strike again, are we prepared? Not really, as these scenarios of extremism make clear: 1. Bomb in a Box... 2. Electroshock... 3. Toxic Train Wreck... 4. Crude Attack... 5. Agro-Armageddon... etc.
National Defense March 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Beat The Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services will share $275 million to expand the BioWatch program, improve a nationwide bio threat reporting system and upgrade food and animal inspections.
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 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 September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Improvised Bombs Have a Long History in U.S. Improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs, have been used to sow terror in the United States for longer than you may think.
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	To Train Troops, Army Creates Digital Reenactments of Roadside Bomb Attacks Video footage of insurgents burying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, is among the data collected by analysts who are assisting simulation experts at the joint training counter-IED operations integration center.
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson	DHS Bomb Prevention Program Sees Uptick in Users After seeing a stagnant number of users for the first four years, a Department of Homeland Security webportal designed to share information on improvised explosive devices is finally beginning to grow, a representative of the TRIPwire program said.
National Defense June 2013 Stew Magnuson	Catching Terrorists Carrying Bombs Still a Tough Problem to Solve When police in Watertown, Mass., honed in on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat stored in a backyard in April, they had several tools familiar to service members who fought in the Iraq and Afghan wars at their disposal.
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 March 2013 Stew Magnuson	Chemical-Biological Defense Office To Kick Off Dozens of New Programs The previous decade has seen little in terms of advancement of nuclear-radiological detection devices, and there will be a new push to update them.
National Defense April 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Counterterrorism Office Seeks Array of Technologies Devices to defeat improvised bombs and chemical and biological weapons are among its most acute needs.
National Defense November 2009 Erwin, Jean & Magnuson	Today's Fights Expose Technological Weak Spots Disruptive challenges, such as roadside bombs, combatants camouflaged as civilians, and insurgent camps that are undetectable by electronic sensors, have forced U.S. military leaders to search for new tactics and technologies.
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Improvised Explosive Devices: Could They Threaten U.S. Ports? The U.S. Navy possesses one of the premier mine-hunting forces in the world, but it is ill-prepared to thwart terrorist attacks on U.S. ports and waterways, officials said.
National Defense November 2010	Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Robotic Mules, Bad Idea... Next Wave of Suicide Bombers... Defense Budget Woes...
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 April 2012 Sapolsky & Schrage	More Than Technology Needed to Defeat Roadside Bombs Soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan call the bigger IEDs "Buffalo killers" for the type of MRAP that they can destroy.
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 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 April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Interagency Group Looking For a Few Good Innovations The interagency organization that fosters counterterrorism technologies and puts them into the hands of military or civilian users has seen a steady increase in funding. But for companies large and small hoping to win a contract, the challenges can be daunting.
National Defense January 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Buried Bombs Can Be Destroyed, But Not Defeated The weapons of choice of U.S. enemies, improvised explosive devices, are like deadly viruses that mutate in reaction to vaccines. They cannot be wiped out, only temporarily thwarted.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller	DHS Heads-up Initiative to Develop Revolutionary Homeland Security Technologies The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington is asking industry for revolutionary technologies to improve homeland security missions and operations.
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 January 2006 Stew Magnuson	Adaptive Foe Thwarts Counter-IED Efforts Coalition forces are engaged in an ongoing invisible combat in the radio and infrared spectra. Iraqi insurgents have progressed from simple trip wires to infrared devices to set off improvised explosive devices.
National Defense November 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Al-Qaida Seen Shifting Tactics to Smaller Attacks The Boston bombing quickly brought domestic jihadist terrorism back into the public eye. Counterterrorism analysts are now concerned that the United States may soon face an increase in deadly, smaller scale attacks.
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Paul Magnusson	The Hard Lesson Of Madrid There are too many holes in the safety net. Here's what the U.S. still needs to do
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Charles Perrow	Shrink The Targets Human nature can better withstand a dozen small disasters than a single great one, even if the casualty total is the same. Protecting America's big targets is next to impossible; we should instead downsize them to make them less consequential and easier to protect.
National Defense November 2013 Stew Magnuson	Boston Attack Highlights Bomb Squad Shortfalls The nation's 466 bomb squads have urgent needs for robots that can help them do their jobs, said a leading expert in counter-improvised explosive device technologies. The problem is that they don't have much money to upgrade their systems.
National Defense March 2005 Roxana Tiron	Insurgents Learn to Exploit U.S. Military's Vulnerabilities As insurgents continue to develop more lethal means to attack U.S. forces and allies in Iraq, both military and private security officials have been conducting briefings on how to recognize and avoid the ubiquitous threats of suicide bombs, roadside mines and ambushes.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Improvised Explosive Threat Reaches Global Scale The end state of successful accomplishment of a special U.S. military group's mission is eliminating the improvised explosive device as a weapon of strategic influence for the enemy. It's no singular, simple task.
National Defense September 2004 Joe Pappalardo	New Technologies Target Terrorist, Suicide Bombs By studying structural failures in lab blasts and real-world attacks, researchers are honing in on new shock-absorbing materials, casualty-minimizing layouts and new methods of securing the interaction between the soil and building foundations.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Robert N. Charette	Open-Source Warfare Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn -- and the West is struggling to keep up. The conflict in Iraq highlights how the open global access to increasingly powerful technological tools is in effect allowing small groups to declare war on nations.
National Defense June 2010 Grace V. Jean	To Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction, U.S. Reaching Out To International Partners U.S. officials believe that terrorists aspire to build bio-weapons. The White House is also expanding collaborative efforts with international partners to help prevent such attacks.
National Defense May 2006 Stew Magnuson	Lawmakers Introduce Tunnel Legislation The movement of illegal immigrants or narcotics through a tunnel under a U.S. border is a felony, but there are no laws on the books preventing the excavation itself.
Wired November 2002 Steven Johnson	Stopping Loose Nukes Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty. Is an "atomic wall" of sophisticated sensors the answer to protecting population centers from terrorist attack by bioweapon or dirty bomb?
PC World September 11, 2001 Dan Verton	Terrorist Attacks Shake U.S. Infrastructure Cyberspace may be clogged, but it's apparently not a target -- this time, experts say...