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National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA) [website]
The National Defense Transportation Association Foundation supports and facilitates programs of transportation education, and scientific research/development. These activities are coordinated in conjunction with private, industrial, educational, and governmental agencies. They are designed to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of our transportation industry and enable it to meet national security needs.
National Defense Transportation Association (U.S.)
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [website]
The EPA website provides information, educational resources, and other data surrounding the agency's mission to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment.
"The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment. EPA's purpose is to ensure that: all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work; national efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information; federal laws protecting human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively; environmental protection is an integral consideration in U.S. policies concerning natural resources, human health, economic growth, energy, transportation, agriculture, industry, and international trade, and these factors are similarly considered in establishing environmental policy; all parts of society -- communities, individuals, businesses, and state, local and tribal governments -- have access to accurate information sufficient to effectively participate in managing human health and environmental risks; environmental protection contributes to making our communities and ecosystems diverse, sustainable and economically productive; and the United States plays a leadership role in working with other nations to protect the global environment."
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) [website]
"The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command [SDDC] is a unique Army command that delivers world-class, origin-to-destination distribution solutions. Whenever and wherever Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen are deployed, SDDC is involved in planning and executing the surface delivery of their equipment and supplies. SDDC is the Army Service Component Command of the U.S. Transportation Command and is a major subordinate command to Army Materiel Command. This relationship links USTRANSCOM's [United States Transportation Command] Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise and AMC's Materiel Enterprise. The command also partners with the commercial transportation industry as the coordinating link between DOD surface transportation requirements and the capability industry provides."
United States. Transportation Command
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Transportation Institute [website]
The Transportation Institute is a Washington-based, non-profit organization dedicated to maritime research education and promotion. The Institute's companies participate in all phases of the nation's deep-sea foreign and domestic shipping trades, and barge and tugboat operations on the Great Lakes and on the 25,000 mile network of America's inland waterways.
Transportation Institute
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Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure [website]
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure website provides access to information surrounding the nation's transportation and infrastructure. Links to news, schedules, and other committee related information is available.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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Air Mobility Command (AMC) [website]
The Air Mobility Command provides airlift, air refueling, special air mission, and aeromedical evacuation for U.S. forces. AMC also supplies forces to theater commands to support wartime tasking, and is the single manager for air mobility as the Air Force component of the United States Transportation Command.
United States. Air Mobility Command
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U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) [website]
The Navy's Military Sealift Command is the transportation provider for the Department of Defense with the responsibility of providing strategic sealift and ocean transportation for all military forces overseas.
United States. Navy. Military Sealift Command
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CIA: Intelligence & Analysis [website]
"Welcome to the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), where incomplete and sometimes contradictory information is transformed into unique insights that inform US policy decisions. Members of the DI help provide timely, accurate, and objective all-source intelligence analysis on the full range of national security and foreign policy issues to the President, Cabinet, and senior policymakers in the US government."
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Safe Standoff Distance Cheat Sheet
This document is a cheat sheet for the specific threat posed by improvised explosive devices. The sheet gives an estimate of how far a person should stand from different explosive devices to avoid any injury.
United States. Department of the Army
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George Washington University: Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS) [website]
"The Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS) at the George Washington University is a nonpartisan "think and do" tank whose mission is to carry out policy-relevant research and analysis on homeland security, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity issues. By convening domestic and international policymakers and practitioners at all levels of government, the private and non-profit sectors, and academia, CCHS develops innovative strategies to address and confront current and future threats."
George Washington University. Center for Cyber and Homeland Security
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United States Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) [website]
USTRANSCOM is a unified command with Transportation Component Commands (TCC) from three armed services: the Air Force's Air Mobility Command (AMC), the Army's Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC), and the Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC). The Commander of USTRANSCOM (Commander, U.S. Transportation Command) has command of the components and their assigned transportation assets in time of peace and time of war. The components organize, train and equip their forces. Their mission is to provide air, land and sea transportation for the Department of Defense (DoD) in time of peace and time of war.
United States. Transportation Command
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Fingerprint Identification: An Overview
This is an informative document on fingerprint identification. It goes over the different fingerprint pattern types, history of fingerprint identification, and the new age of electronic fingerprint identification.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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DisasterAssistance.gov: Access to Disaster Help and Resources [website]
The Disaster Assistance Improvement Program's (DAIP) mission is to provide disaster survivors with information, support, services, and a means to access and apply for disaster assistance through joint data-sharing efforts between federal, tribal, state, local, and private sector partners. DisasterAssistance.gov is a DAIP website which allows you to: Find disaster assistance that meets your personal needs; Learn about more than 70 forms of assistance from 17 federal agencies; Apply for disaster assistance and reduce the number of forms you have to fill out; Check the status of your application; Find a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) near you; Find a hotel or a new place to live; Find programs to help with food and nutrition needs; Change the address for your Social Security, VA, or other federal benefits; [and] Learn about Small Business Administration (SBA) loans for homeowners, renters, and businesses. The site can also help you learn how to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. You can learn to deal with immediate needs, like how to: Evacuate or shelter in place; Find emergency shelter; Get food and water; Handle emergency medical situations until help arrives; [and] Find family, friends, and even lost pets.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Recent Releases
This webpage from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) provides a listing of recent news items and information produced by ICE.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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CDC: Public Health Matters Blog
From the Public Health Matters Blog "About" page: "During the past century, public health was challenged with promoting sanitation and childhood immunization programs to eradicate smallpox and polio and reduce other diseases such as typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and whooping cough. However, in the 21st Century, the challenges of public health continue to surface as we battle infectious disease and foodborne outbreaks such as H1N1 flu and Salmonella Typhimurium. Public health has become a new face in the preparedness arena and has been instrumental in responses such as the September 11th attacks, the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
In this blog, we share our public health passions about the evolution of public health and the continual strides that are being made to protect and save lives through education, awareness, research, and promoting healthy lifestyles. We look forward to listening to our communities for greater transparency and accountability. I will be joined by our scientists and other subject matter experts who spend their days working with some of the most critical infectious diseases, as well as preparing for and responding to public health emergencies that threaten us in the United States and around the world. From high-tech labs in Atlanta to the field worldwide, please join us as we share our perspective and personal experiences working on the front lines of emerging infectious diseases and public health emergencies."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Social Media at CDC [website]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "uses social media to provide users with access to credible, science-based health information when, where, and how you want it. A variety of social media tools are used to reinforce and personalize messages, reach new audiences, and build a communication infrastructure based on open information exchange." This site includes a set of social media tools; information on current CDC social media campaigns; a metrics dashboard for developing social media strategies; as well as guidance and best practices for using social media to "to provide critical information on lessons learned, best practices, clearance information and security requirements," which "may be useful materials for other federal, state and local agencies as well as private organizations to reference when developing social media tools."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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National Climatic Data Center [website]
"NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) maintains the world's largest climate data archive and provides climatological services and data to every sector of the United States economy and to users worldwide. Records in the archive range from paleoclimatic data to centuries-old journals to data less than an hour old. The Center's mission is to preserve these data and make them available to the public, business, industry, government, and researchers."
National Climatic Data Center (U.S.)
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South Dakota Office of Homeland Security [website]
This web page offers information and links relating to South Dakota's Office of Homeland Security. "Our purpose is to lead the effort in keeping South Dakota free from any acts of terrorism. We do this by: (1) Coordinating an extensive information sharing network between all levels of government and local officials. (2) Assisting all city, county and tribal governments with an ongoing assessment of their jurisdictions to determine their anti-terrorism needs. (3) Managing anti-terrorism Homeland Security grants to assist city, county and tribal governments in acquiring the resources needed to both prevent acts of terrorism and to respond and recover should one occur. The National Strategy for Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Act of 2002 served to mobilize and organize our nation to secure the homeland from terrorist attacks. This exceedingly complex mission requires a focused effort from our entire society if we are to be successful. To this end, the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security was to provide the unifying core for the vast national network of organizations and institutions involved in efforts to secure our nation. The South Dakota Office of Homeland Security was established in 2003."
South Dakota. Department of Public Safety (2003- )
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Mapping & Analysis for Public Safety Program: A Program to Advance Applied and Basic Research Involving the Spatial Analysis of Crime
This document goes over a public safety program that was created to advance basic research in spatial analysis, as well as applied research on spatial analysis. The mission and purpose of the program is to enhance the application of spatial analysis in criminology and policing through research, evaluation, development, and dissemination. This shall bridge the gap between research & practice.
National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
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Terrorism in the United States 1999
"This special retrospective issue of Terrorism in the United States provides both a summary of terrorism-related activity in 1999 and a broad overview of U.S.-based terrorism during the past three decades. It discusses notable cases, trends, emerging threats, and the development of the FBI response to terrorism during the past 30 years. Appendices summarize terrorist incidents in the United States during the past decade and provide background information on currently designated foreign terrorist organizations and terrorist rendition (1987-1999), as well as a series of graphs depicting terrorist-related activity in the United States during the past two decades. This document includes a chronological summary of incidents in the United States from 1990-1999, the 28 groups on othe U.S. Department of State's designated foreign terrorist organization list, terrorist renditions 1987-1999, casualties of terrorism 1980-1999, and a chronology of terrorist activity in the United States 1980-1989."
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Anti-Shipping Activity Messages (ASAM) Database
"The Anti-Shipping Activity Messages (ASAM) include the locations and descriptive accounts of specific hostile acts against ships and mariners. The reports may be useful for recognition, prevention and avoidance of potential hostile activity." The ASAM Database can be searched using one or more of the following criteria: ASAM reference number(s), sub region, or occurrence date(s). Each record includes the date of occurrence, an ASAM reference number, the number identifying the geographical subregion, the latitude and longitude of the geographical location, the aggressor if known, the type of vessel victimized, the name of the vessel victimized and a detailed description of the occurance.
United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
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Worldwide Threats to Shipping Reports
"The Worldwide Threats to Shipping Report, compiled and published weekly by the Office of Naval Intelligence, contains a summary of recent piracy acts and hostile actions against commercial shipping worldwide, organized by geographic region. The report also includes any recent developments in the efforts to prevent piracy and prosecute the aggressors."
United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
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Deep Focus: Hydra-Headed Metadata
Experience with traditional forms of metadata has shown that it is expensive and time-consuming to produce, that people (e.g., authors) often resist creating it when there is no immediate or direct benefit, and that information-seekers often find it difficult to relate their requests to pre-specified ontology's or controlled vocabularies. Generating a common ontology for a domain also tends to be controversial. New standards for communicating metadata, such as XML, do nothing to address the underlying issue of where it originates. Controlled vocabularies and relatively static ontology's are not solid foundations for information systems that must cover a wide range of subjects, support rapid integration of new information, be easy for the general population to use, and can only be maintained at moderate expense. Large-scale use of metadata requires new answers to fundamental questions. Recently, the Digital Government program of the National Science Foundation has funded a number of projects to address the challenge of integrating large, heterogeneous, widely distributed and disparate Government data collections. This paper describes two complementary approaches: large ontology-based data access planning using small domain models semi-automatically acquired, and dynamic metadata creation from language models.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Callan, Jamie, 1959-; Croft, W. Bruce; Hovy, Eduard H.
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Student and Exchange Visitor Program [website]
This is "the official SEVP and SEVIS website. Here you can find the latest information and resources for F (academic) and M (vocational) students, as well as designated school officials (DSOs). The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) is a part of the National Security Investigations Division and acts as a bridge for government organizations that have an interest in information on nonimmigrants whose primary reason for coming to the United States is to be students. On behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), SEVP manages schools, nonimmigrant students in the F and M visa classifications and their dependents. The Department of State (DoS) manages Exchange Visitor Programs, nonimmigrant exchange visitors in the J visa classification and their dependents. Both SEVP and DoS use the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) to track and monitor schools; exchange visitor programs; and F, M and J nonimmigrants while they visit the United States and participate in the U.S. education system."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Wireless Communications: A Firefighter's Lifeline
This presentation goes over the importance of wireless communications for firefighters, as well as other needs that would allow firefighters to do more in cases of fire emergencies.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Penido, John
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New Directions in Digital Government: Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination
This presentation covers agencies of the Federal Government that didn't communicate before, who are now collaborating once again at a very deep level. The Nation's best science is being called up to serve, which has led to new processes being invented for addressing the needs. The solutions for these needs are likely to be a combination of technology and policy.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Strong, Gary W.
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COPS: Office of Community Oriented Policing Services [website]
As a component of the Justice Department, the mission of the COPS Office is to advance community policing in jurisdictions of all sizes across the country. Community policing represents a shift from more traditional law enforcement in that it focuses on prevention of crime and the fear of crime on a very local basis. COPS provides grants to tribal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to hire and train community policing professionals, acquire and deploy cutting-edge crime-fighting technologies, and develop and test innovative policing strategies. COPS-funded training helps advance community policing at all levels of law enforcement - from line officers to law enforcement executives - as well as others in the criminal justice field.
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
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National Institute of Justice [website]
NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, and focuses its research on crime control and justice issues at the State and local levels.
National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
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Kansas Division of Emergency Management [website]
This website contains a comprehensive amount of information on preparedness; training; disaster assistance; technology hazards; state emergency agencies; public affairs; grant information; state mitigation plans; and communications. It also provides information on the four disaster programs: Donations management; individual and households program/other needs assistance; hazard mitigation program; and public assistance program.
Kansas. Division of Emergency Management
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Washington Military Department: Emergency Management Division [website]
This web site for the Washington Military Department's Emergency Management Division contains a great deal of information on disaster recover assistance, including assessment and prevention procedures, and recovery policy, guidelines, and planning. It also includes a number of publications and videos on hazard mitigation.
Washington (State). Emergency Management Division
