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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.  |
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson |
DHS' Nuclear Detection Efforts Continue on Smaller Scale The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office could never get the technology to work well enough, and estimated costs to deploy the portals swelled, so after six years with nothing to show for the millions spent, the ax fell.  |
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports.  |
National Defense August 2006 Robert H. Williams |
Mini Device Pinpoints Nuclear Threats A pager-sized device that has been introduced by Thermo Electron not only detects and identifies specific nuclear threats, but also transmits this information in real time to command centers.  |
National Defense January 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Plan to Protect U.S. Ports Homes In on Contraband The challenge facing the DHS, importers and the shipping industry is to prevent weapons of mass destruction, would-be illegal immigrants and contraband from entering U.S. ports -- including overland traffic from Canada and Mexico -- without disrupting the flow of goods.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 |
Market for nuclear-screening portals will tally $3 billion from 2006-2010 Concerns about homeland security should generate $3 billion in business for designers of nuclear-screening portals from 2006 to 2010.  |
National Defense November 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Nuclear Detectors Tested in Nevada Desert The newly formed Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) inherited the project, dedicated to stopping a nuclear attack on U.S. soil, from the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale |
Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation to Thwart Nuclear Terrorism Researchers are engineering cell phones that help detect potential terrorist threats such as radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons.  |
BusinessWeek January 22, 2007 Aaron Pressman |
Homeland Security 2.0 Five years after September 11, a new wave of smarter high-tech tools is coming to market.  |
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Johnson Latest DHS Secretary to Waive 100 Percent Cargo Screening Mandate Despite a long string of secretaries and Customs and Border Protection commissioners speaking out against the practicality of the law, some members of Congress are still pushing DHS to fulfill the mandate.  |
InternetNews June 1, 2004 Roy Mark |
Accenture Lands Potential $10B Federal Contract Company to employ biometrics as part of Department of Homeland Defense's virtual border program.  |
National Defense April 2009 |
Border Security The U.S. has limited ability to prevent dangerous materials from reaching the shores.  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John McHale |
DHS turns to high tech to control borders Border agents cannot possibly check every car or every traveler. So U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials are relying on new technologies -- such as those noted here -- to tighten the country's borders.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John McHale |
Thermo releases monitoring system for nuclear plants ViewPoint, a remote monitoring software platform, provides real-time personnel and area monitoring during routine and outage operations in the nuclear power industry.  |
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?  |
Wired October 23, 2007 Michael Levi |
In the Search for Loose Nukes, a Little Propaganda Goes a Long Way Strategic communication misleads terrorists into believing that nuclear attempts are futile.  |
Entrepreneur July 2007 Laurel Delaney |
Ace the System Automated Commercial Environment is revolutionizing the way entries are cleared, tracked and paid for.  |
Science News June 20, 2009 Elizabeth Quill |
Book Review: The Bomb: A New History By Stephen M. Younger Younger offers a straightforward account of nuclear weapons: how they were developed, how they work and how they forced humankind into constant vulnerability  |
Smithsonian January 2004 Fen Montaigne |
Policing America's Ports The 19,000 cargo containers flowing into the United States each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons.  |
National Defense December 2010 Eric Beidel |
With SBInet In Limbo, Border Technology Is Anyone's Game The Department of Homeland Security's program to deploy a network of cutting-edge cameras, sensors and communication technologies along the southwest border has hit its share of snags and more recently a wall.  |
National Defense October 2006 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Outlines Efforts to Protect Infrastructure The director of the infrastructure partnership division in DHS, said that the long-awaited National Infrastructure Protection Plan will detail ways the government and the private sector can work as "peers" to share and protect sensitive information.  |
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Homeland Adds On-the-Go Radioactive Hunter to Garage A modified Chevy Suburban XL that can detect the presence of radioactive material was delivered to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by Raytheon last month.  |
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 September 2010 Magnuson & Fugate |
Monitoring Small Vessels Still a Challenge for Coast Guard, Says GAO The Government Accountability Office has found that few resources are being devoted to the small vessel threat.  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 |
Briefs T.F. Green Airport testing explosive trace- detection technology for pilot program... DHS UAVs operating in Arizona support border security... DHS launches Office of Inter-operability and Compatibility... etc.  |
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Coast Guard Regaining Focus on WMD The Coast Guard is trying to regain its Cold War proficiency in dealing with weapons of mass destruction attacks and outfitting crews to be better prepared for possible toxic exposure while conducting security missions.  |
National Defense June 2009 Clark A. Murdock |
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: How Realistic Is Obama's Vision? Debating the realism of trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons is a pointless exercise.  |
National Defense August 2014 Christina Munnell |
Government Urged to Rein In Radiological Materials A government watchdog said the three agencies charged with securing radiological materials that can be used to make dirty bombs need to collaborate more closely.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 Hans Kobler |
From DARPA to Main Street Technologies developed for Homeland Security are moving into the public sector.  |
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons |
United States Remains Concerned About Nuclear Weapons The number of nuclear weapons in circulation worldwide has been slowly but steadily declining in recent years because the United States and Russia are scaling back their nuclear arsenals.  |
National Defense January 2014 Valerie Insinna |
New Technologies Boost Radiation Detector Effectiveness As the neutron-detecting material Helium 3 grows ever more expensive and scarce, companies that make radiation detectors are looking for alternatives offering better performance at a comparable price.  |
PC World May 2005 Lincoln Spector |
Hide Your Internet Ports From Snooping Hackers Closing open ports... Turning off Windows new program notification... Printing fonts and saving paper... etc.  |
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Public Still in the Dark When it Comes to Dirty Bomb Threat The federal government has come up short in public information campaigns to educate the public on what to do in the event of a radiation attack  |
Chemistry World March 24, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
Flights from Japan trip US airport radiation detectors Low levels of radiation have been detected on planes arriving at US airports from Japan, but experts say that overly sensitive detectors are culpable and the public should not be concerned.  |
National Defense December 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Homeland Security Tussles with GAO Over Radiation Portals A DHS official said he was confident that the next generation of portals designed to find nuclear materials in shipping containers will work despite a withering GAO report questioning performance data and their high price tags.  |
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson |
New Northern Border Camera System to Avoid Past Pitfalls The Border Patrol will be begin work this year to install a series of cameras north of Detroit with one motto in mind: keep it simple.  |
The Motley Fool May 8, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Fisher Scientific Reels In a Deal A fair price and impressive market leverage give this merger between Fisher Scientific and Thermo Electron a better-than-average chance. Shareholders, take note.  |
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson |
7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.  |
Popular Mechanics December 29, 2008 Jeremy Jacquot |
3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology.  |
InternetNews December 16, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Sun Portal Server Hits With SOA Touch The new free portal server takes aim at Web 2.0 app deployment.  |
InternetNews June 24, 2010 |
JBoss Portal 5 Release Easier to Use With features that include a revised user interface, the JBoss Portal 5 release is designed to make it easier for users to create, manage and build sites.  |
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Moore & Aurilio |
The Great Nuclear Debate Here are some compelling arguments both for and against pursuing nuclear power as an answer to the country's energy problems.  |
National Defense October 2005 |
NIOSH-Validated Gas Mask Emerges Developed for first responders, the Millennium Gas Mask is National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-approved for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agent protection.  |
National Defense January 2014 Dan Parsons |
Predators Allow Border Agencies to Reallocate Resources Monitoring and policing 7,000 miles of border shared by the United States and its northern and southern neighbors has always been a tall order for Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 |
Nuclear Testing Goes Virtual The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration officially dedicated two state-of-the-art supercomputers that should allow the United States' nuclear weapons arsenal to be kept in working order without the need for underground testing.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Slakey & Tannenbaum |
What About The Nukes? The U.S. nuclear stockpile is showing its age, but building new warheads isn't the solution.  |
Wired March 2002 Evan Ratliff |
This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late...  |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is...  |