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[Public Intelligence] (U//FOUO) DHS Attacks on Drinking Water Systems | Public Intelligence: Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have an interest in using the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

[Leadership Journal] Leadership Journal: 2009 National Infrastructure Protection Plan ...: The homeland security risks facing our nation are a complex mix of manmade and naturally occurring hazards, including terrorist attacks, accidents, natural disasters, and other emergencies. National priorities for critical infrastructure and key resources protection include both preventing catastrophic loss of life associated with these risks and minimizing their cascading, disruptive impacts on the U.S. and global economy.

[Department of Homeland Security News] DHS: Secretary Napolitano Announces Nearly $790 Million in ...: - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the fiscal year 2010 Preparedness Grants for nine federal programs””including critical infrastructure-related grants””totaling nearly $790 million to assist state, local and tribal governments and the private sector in strengthening preparedness for acts of terrorism, major disasters and other emergencies.

[Virginia Department of Emergency Management E-News] VAEmergency.com > Newsroom & Archives > News Release Archive ...: RICHMOND, VA –The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and the Office of Commonwealth Preparedness more than $9.6 million for Virginia and National Capital Region ports, transit systems and critical infrastructure sites through the Infrastructure Protection Grant Program. The IPGP consists of programs aimed at emergency planning for terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies.

[Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis] Chemical Security Inspections: A Houston-Style Flare-Up Providing ...: Hatcher’s articles, this all raises a larger question - whether it’s a good idea to drastically overhaul the Department’s approach to chemical security while DHS is in the midst of the very first compliance cycle for the regulatory program?  Having been involved in the stand-up as well as the implementation of the CFATS program, I think Rep. Gene Green has it right - let’s take a pragmatic approach and allow DHS to get through one cycle of CFATS compliance before revisiting the program’s authorizing structure and adding game changing requirements like Inherently Safer Technology.

[Security Management News & Analysis] Lawmakers Hear Ways to Reduce Pipeline Failure Incidents ...: During an afternoon hearing, the Senate Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Subcommittee discussed how the federal government could improve pipeline safety as it anticipates reauthorizing the Pipeline and Hazardous .By Emergency Film Group;

[Jobs & Business] Jobs,Business,Finance | First Responder, Homeland Security, And ...: Growth comes as the border patrols and law enforcement agencies use robots to achieve broader security in a less expensive manner, delivering the promise of automated process in yet another industry. First responder robots bring changes in every region while the globally integrated enterprise replaces nationalistic dominance, creating broader cooperative police actions that replace nationalistic wars.

[The Legal Workshop] From Federal Security to Homeland Security: Law, Politics, and ...: Flynn, America the Resilient: Defying Terrorism and Mitigating Natural Disasters, 87 Foreign Aff 2, 3 (Mar-Apr 2008) (explaining that the shortage of emergency funds and an aging infrastructure place most Americans in a precarious position if disaster should strike).'>2 A deliberate attack or a serious accident at any one of over a hundred chemical facilities could unleash a cloud of toxic gas harming over a million people.3 The International Atomic Energy Agency recorded over one hundred incidents of nuclear smuggling between 1993 and 2006.4 These threats reflect not only structural vulnerabilities forcing us to confront persistent risks, but also the fact that we face determined adversaries eager to do us harm. Though less commonly remarked upon in a post-Cold War world, geostrategic threats of a more conventional nature also remain a challenge, just as they were throughout the twentieth century.

[Public Matters blog] Public Matters blog » Napolitano gives an update on CFATS, but ...: “I’m scared to death that they’ll be someone like the guy who flew into the IRS building in Austin who will show up outside a chemical facility with a bomb,” Coyle said. “The world is going to come down real hard on DHS and Congress for not having done anything and if that happens all bets are off - that’s what scares me because any legislation coming from that is going to Dranconian.”

[Reports - The Heritage Foundation] How to Fix Homeland Security Critical-Infrastructure Protection ...: These public-private partnerships are essential to CIKR protection since the private sector owns and manages an estimated 85 percent of all critical infrastructure in the United States.[15] Private actors are, therefore, best positioned to determine and implement risk-mitigation strategies to reducing the vulnerability of the CIKRs they own and operate to various disruptions. Yet, government agencies can contribute essential resources to CIKR protection and are also well positioned to address threats.

[The Blog @ Homeland Security] The Blog @ Homeland Security: Morning Roundup - June 16th: National Protection and Programs Infrastructure Protection Security Division Director Sue Armstrong will testify before the House Committee on Homeland Security about Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS)

[Greenversations] Greenversations » Science Wednesday: Homeland Security Research ...: I must say, these were entirely new experiences for me, and I’m still on a steep learning curve when it comes to blogging and tweeting. I really enjoyed exploring new ways to share the story of our homeland security research, our results, and its impacts.

[Voices] “OPERATE TO FAILURE”: How BP's MO & The US Addiction To Oil Caused ...: By its actions and inaction, the US Gov’t (EPA, Departments of Energy, Interior, Homeland Security, US Congress, US Judiciary and the White House) has been identified by many as an indicted co-conspirator in this unprecedented crime against a whole region of the USA. Rather shocking, but true as the evidence which currently exists in the public domain bears out.

[Halvalla Viagra Apteekki - Trusted Online Pharmacy] Order Viagra Online - Trusted Online Pharmacy: FEMA is a special star in DHS as the coordinator, and there are other pockets of DHS that do this as well (think Fusion Centers with I&A, or even emergency communications in NPPD). FEMA would like to think of themselves as “large and in-charge” for Federal mitigation and response to all hazards (which they have a huge role in), but really they coordinate the entire response to all-hazards and particularly for the Federal government.

[hunterkirk] hunterkirk - News Clips: “Anybody that knows that border knows that we’ve done a pretty good job of closing off the San Diego-Tijuana area and the El Paso area, but that has caused a lot of the drug trafficking organizations and human trafficking organizations to focus their routes into Arizona along that corridor,” Napolitano said Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “And our goal now is to shut the corridor down.”

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