Advanced search Help
Clear all search criteria
Only 2/3! You are seeing results from the Public Collection, not the complete Full Collection. Sign in to search everything (see eligibility).
-
Risk Self Assessment Tool for Stadiums and Arenas
"The Risk Self Assessment Tool (RSAT) is a secure, Web-based application designed to assist managers of stadiums and arenas with the identification and management of security vulnerabilities to reduce risk to their facilities. The RSAT application was developed in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection's Sector Specific Agency Executive Management Office and the Infrastructure Information Collection Division. The RSAT application uses facility input in combination with threat and consequence estimates to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment and provides users with options for consideration to improve the security posture of their facility."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Infrastructure Protection
-
Guidance on Antiviral Drug Use During an Influenza Pandemic
"The use of prescription antiviral drugs to treat and prevent infection will be an important component of a pandemic influenza response. While current antiviral drug use strategies and publicly maintained stockpiles are targeted primarily for treatment of persons with pandemic illness, expanded antiviral drug production has allowed additional strategies to be considered. An interagency working group, with input from representatives of State, local and tribal public health agencies, considered scientific issues, ethics and values, and perspectives of stakeholders in developing draft guidance on antiviral use strategies and stockpiling. The antiviral drug use guidance in this document replaces the recommendations developed in 2005 which are published as part of the Department of Health and Human Service's (HHS's) pandemic influenza plan. As guidance, this document does not create a requirement; rather, it defines a prudent strategy for antiviral drug stockpiling and use that can contribute to a more effective pandemic response. The guidance on antiviral use is based on the national pandemic response goals of slowing the spread of pandemic disease, reducing impacts on health, and minimizing societal and economic disruption."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
-
iFORCECOM [website]
"The Force Readiness Command will optimize Coast Guard Human Performance to enhance premier mission execution by providing: (1) Clear Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures, (2) Relevant Training, and (3) Quality Assessments."
United States. Coast Guard
-
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [website]
This record is the official website of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which is a program of the U.S. National Institutes of Health under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "The mission of the NIEHS is to reduce the burden of human illness and disability to understanding how the environment influences the development and progression of human disease."
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
-
Texas Association of Regional Councils [website]
"The Texas Association of Regional Councils (TARC) was organized in 1973 by interlocal agreement among Texas' 24 regional councils of governments. The statewide association assists the regional councils in strengthening their capabilities to serve their local government members; provides a forum for the regular exchange of information and ideas; educates other governmental entities, public and private organizations, and the general public about the services and functions of regional councils; and represents the councils before both state and federal agencies and legislative bodies. Each of the regional councils pays membership dues to participate."
Texas Association of Regional Councils
-
Texas Division of Emergency Management [website]
"The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) has its roots in the civil defense programs established during World War II. It dates as a separate organization from The Texas Civil Protection Act of 1951, which established the Division of Defense and Disaster Relief in the Governor's Office to handle civil defense and disaster response programs. The Division was collocated with the Department of Public Safety (DPS) in 1963. The organization was renamed the Division of Disaster Emergency Services in 1973. After several more name changes, it was designated an operating division of the Texas Department of Public Safety in 2005. Legislation passed during the 81st session of the Texas Legislature in 2009 formally changed the name of the organization to the Texas Division of Emergency Management. TDEM is charged with carrying out a comprehensive all-hazard emergency management program for the State and for assisting cities, counties, and state agencies in planning and implementing their emergency management programs. A comprehensive emergency management program includes pre and post-disaster mitigation of known hazards to reduce their impact; preparedness activities, such as emergency planning, training, and exercises; provisions for effective response to emergency situations; and recovery programs for major disasters. Chapter 418 of the Texas Government Code lays out an extensive set of specific responsibilities assigned to the Division. TDEM is also responsible for supporting development of the Governor's Homeland Security Strategy and implementing programs and projects to achieve state homeland security goals and objectives."
Texas. Department of Public Safety
-
DisasterAssistance.gov: Acceso a la Asistencia por Desastre y Recursos [website]
This website is the official Spanish-language version of the U.S. Government's (FEMA's) DisasterAssistance.gov website. FEMA launched this version of this website in October of 2009 and it will hereafter contain the same information on access to disaster help and resources as the English-language DisasterAssistance.gov website tailored to native Spanish speakers in the United States.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
-
Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA) [website]
This website is the official Spanish-language version of the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website. FEMA launched this version of its website in October of 2009 and it will hereafter contain the same information as the English-language FEMA website tailored to native Spanish speakers in the United States.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
-
U. S. Fire Administration: Wildfire... Are You Prepared?
This information booklet from the U.S. Fire Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, offers information on what to do prevent wildfire damage and keeping your family safe before, during and after a Wildfire.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
-
NIOSH Hazard Based Interim Guidelines: Protective Equipment for Workers in Hurricane Flood Response
"The purpose of this interim National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) fact sheet is to provide general guidance for personal protective equipment (PPE) for workers responding in hurricane flood zones. This guidance is based on best available information as of September 9, 2005 and will be updated as additional information is available. PPE selection and use is site and task specific. General guidelines must be adapted to specific conditions. This guidance represents professional judgment based on experience from responses to past storms and floods. Additional interim recommendations will be added for clean-up and restoration operations. These interim recommendations focus on the following hazards associated with response activities: Hazard 1 Sharp jagged debris Hazard 2 Floodwater exposure Hazard 3 Electrical hazards Hazard 4 Contact with blood/body fluids and handling animal and human remains Note: This guidance is not a comprehensive list of hazards and does not include important hazards such as stress or fatigue that are not addressed via PPE."
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
-
U.S. Department of State: Counterterrorism Office [website]
The Counterterrorism Office coordinates all U.S. government efforts to improve counterterrorism cooperation with foreign governments. The web page links to reports, official statements, documents, Congressional legislation, press briefings and testimony, related web sites and an archive.
United States. Department of State. Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
-
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) [website]
The Board is an independent quasi-judicial agency in the Executive branch that serves as the guardian of Federal merit systems. The Office of Policy and Evaluation contains links to Issues of Merit newsletters from 1996 to date, as well as archived reports from 1994 to 2000.
United States. Merit Systems Protection Board
-
U.S. Office of Special Counsel [website]
This office is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency designed to prosecute and protect federal employees from disputes stemming from law created by the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act and the Hatch Act.
United States. Office of Special Counsel
-
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: The Center for Veterinary Medicine and Counterterrorism
The U.S. FDA provides a listing of links related to countering bioterrorism. Link categories include general topics, FAQs, public health initiatives/actions/preparedness, and specific types of biological agents such as anthrax and smallpox. Furthermore,"The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is working with other federal agencies to help the country prepare for a biological emergency, natural disaster or terrorist attack by making sure there is a safe and adequate supply of animal drug products and a safe animal feed supply system. This page contains information on CVM's role in counterterrorism."
United States. Food and Drug Administration
-
Emerging Paradigm for Policing Multiethnic Societies: Glimpses From the American Experience
A new paradigm for policing multiethnic societies is emerging in which the balance between enforcing law and maintaining racial/ ethnic harmony is being reset in favor of the latter. This reflects a cultural shift towards greater tolerance of diversity. Its timing is opportune as massive international migration is reshaping the composition of formerly homogeneous populations. Community policing is a most suitable strategy for achieving race/ethnic harmony; but, the strategy alone is no guarantee. It must be knit to specific situations by politically sensitive officials.
United States. Office of Justice Programs. Office for Domestic Preparedness
McDonald, William F.
-
Fiscal Year 1999 State Domestic Preparedness Equipment Program: Guidance for the Development of a Three Year Statewide Domestic Preparedness Strategy
The Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Program (OJP) is providing funds to States under the State Domestic Preparedness Equipment Program for the purchase of specialized equipment for fire, emergency medical, hazardous materials response services, and law enforcement agencies. These funds will be used to enhance the capabilities of State and local units of government to respond to acts of terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Funding will also assist States with documenting capabilities and needs, and with the development of comprehensive statewide strategic plans. As the State agency designate to administer this program, your role in strategic planning and in assessing overall State and local capabilities is a critical component of OJP's State and local domestic preparedness initiative. To assist States with their strategic planning efforts, the Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support (OSLDPS) has developed guidance for states to use in their strategic planning process. As a multi-year document, it is important that the strategy reflect statewide funding allocations for equipment purchases, and that it also identify
resource needs in the areas of training, exercises, and technical assistance.
United States. Office of Justice Programs. Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support
-
Critical Incident Response Technology Program: Background and Overview
Provides an overview of the Critical Incident Response Technology Initiative.
United States. Office of Justice Programs. Office for Domestic Preparedness
-
United States Department of the Treasury: Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence [website]
"The Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) marshals the department's intelligence and enforcement functions with the twin aims of safeguarding the financial system against illicit use and combating rogue nations, terrorist facilitators, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferators, money launderers, drug kingpins, and other national security threats."
United States. Department of the Treasury
-
U.S. Chemical Weapons Convention [website]
This site provides resources and educational tools to assist U.S. chemical facilities in complying with the Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) Chemical Weapons Conventions regulations and CWC provisions of Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Among many others, the CWC offers links and related documents reguarding enforcement authorities, declarations and reports, inspections, and industry and global outreach.
United States. Chemical Weapons Convention
-
NSA/CSS Strategic Plan 2001-2006
Intelligence and information systems security complement each other. Intelligence gives the Nation an information advantage over its adversaries. Information systems security prevents others from gaining advantage over the Nation. Together the two functions promote a single goal: information superiority for America and its allies. NSA/CSS used technology to help win the Cold War, building a stable, well-funded, focused organization that provided a unique product to decision makers. As the preeminent information organization in the Industrial Age, they provided and protected the Nation's secrets. But the proliferation of information technologies and the emergence of the global network have begun to transform the world, altering fundamental ways of thinking and communicating. Old patterns are giving way to agile and collaborative processes and technologies. Old methods of behavior and communication still exist, but the future is clear. If NSA/CSS is to continue to serve the Nation by providing and protecting vital information, they must embrace change and resume our place on the forward edge of technology. NSA/CSS must master and operate in the global net of tomorrow. This plan outlines the goals of the NSA/CSS up to the year 2006.
United States. National Security Agency
-
Cornerstones of Information Warfare
The competition for information is as old as human conflict. It is virtually a defining characteristic of humanity. Nations, corporations, and individuals each seek to increase and protect their own store of information while trying to limit and penetrate the adversary's. Since around 1970, there have been extraordinary improvements in the technical means of collecting, storing, analyzing, and transmitting information. Reams have been written about the impact of this technical revolution on the conduct of war, particularly since Desert Storm. However, most of the literature focuses primarily on technical developments, not on how these developments impact doctrine. This paper will pose questions important to Air Force policy makers and provide answers firmly grounded on concise definitions, institutional experience, and doctrinal concepts. In the process, it will clarify why the competition for information, which predates the dawn of history, is suddenly a riveting national security topic. Closer to home, this paper will also describe how Air Force doctrine should evolve to accommodate information warfare. The ultimate goal is a sound foundation on which to base the inevitable changes in organizing, training, equipping, and employing military forces and capabilities.
United States. Department of the Air Force
-
Information Awareness Proposer Information Pamphlet
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of information technologies that will aid in the detection, classification, identification, and tracking of potential foreign terrorists, wherever they may be, to understand their intentions, and to develop options to prevent their terrorist acts. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, technology or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. Section one of this paper provides supplemental information on DARPA's Information Awareness Office (DARPA/IAO), specific technology focus areas and program structure. Section two provides detailed information on proposal format, submission requirements, proposal evaluation, award and funding processes, and related information. Section 3 covers terrorism information awareness.
United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
-
High-Speed Internet Access - 'Broadband' Fact Sheet
This Federal Communications Commission fact sheet covers high-speed Internet access on the varieties of high-speed Internet access mediums. High-speed Internet access makes the data processing capabilities necessary to use the Internet available via several devices or high-speed transmission technologies, including: Digital Subscriber Line, Cable Modem, Wireless Access, Satellite Access, Fiber to the Home, Power Line Broadband.
United States. Federal Communications Commission
-
Information Operations: The Fifth Dimension of Warfare
This article is a speech delivered by Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman to the Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 1995. One thing that is no secret is the importance of information, to industry, to joint war-fighting teams and to our national leadership. The technology information explosion in our society has created an awareness of the power of information. The speaker in this speech expresses his thoughts, as a historian, on the role that information has come to play in the evolution of warfare and where we're headed.
United States. Department of Defense
Fogleman, Ronald Robert
-
Future of Information Security
As computers become smarter, more sophisticated, and more flexible, they will become more like us. That is, they will acquire the reliable information security provisions that all of us carry around as our basic make-up. Yet, as they become more like us, they will begin to ingest information at the semantic level from outside sources as we do (as in fact, you are doing now), and will thus be heir to more subtle but no less problematic forms of information warfare. It is important to note that forecasts about information security are inevitably forecasts about information systems themselves. Several key factors influence the current level of information security. As people move away from closed proprietary systems, they will expose themselves to more security risk, especially in the process control sectors (e.g., SCADA systems). For this reason, but perhaps only for this reason, one may see a decline in the average level of information security over the next few years. It is extremely difficult to know what the threat to information systems actually is, and thus all the harder to know in what direction it is going. In terms of actual day-to-day threat, information warfare has remained distinctly unimpressive. Most computer crimes are internal affairs, and most external computer crimes arise, not from systematic attack, but by small groups, or, more likely, random malevolence and even curiosity run amok.
National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies
Libicki, Martin C.
-
U.S. Department of Transportation DRAFT Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2003-2008: Safer, Simpler, Smarter Transportation Solutions
Developing a strategic Vision for the Department of Transportation is essential if we are to achieve our core mission in light of the challenges inherent in a global context where expectations for the movement of people and goods are propelled by information technology. Americans will require even safer and more efficient domestic and international transportation to support their daily lives, to underpin the economy and to connect the United States to rest of the world. Secretary Mineta has called for a safer, simpler and smarter transportation system for the benefit of all Americans. Safer because we will place greater emphasis on saving lives and reducing accidents than ever before. Simpler because we will improve the management of our resources by consolidating and streamlining programs. And Smarter because we will focus on improving efficiency, achieving results and increasing accountability. We will be pioneers in transportation pursuing best practices and breaking the mold to achieve results that benefit the taxpayers.Over the past year, we have been using these principles as our guide in developing ideas for the reauthorization of Federal surface and air transportation programs to ensure that they will successfully address our Nation's future needs. In addition to these two major pieces of legislation, this Administration is working to achieve significant reform in intercity passenger rail and to address maritime transportation issues with greater focus and substance.
United States. Department of Transportation
-
Functions of Homeland Security Policy Council
This PowerPoint presentation provides an outline of the role of the Federal Communications Commission in Homeland Security.
United States. Federal Communications Commission
MacBride, Marsha
-
Intelligence Community's Challenge in the War on Terrorism
This paper was written for the Army Management Staff College, Sustaining Base Leadership and Management Program Writing contest. "America's Intelligence Community faces continued criticism and increased challenges in the fight against terror. The 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have forever altered the intelligence collection effort concerning the terrorist activities. These attacks have highlighted a continuing shortfall on the part of the United States (US) Intelligence Community to provide current, credible, and actionable intelligence to defeat terrorist attacks on US assets. This paper serves to examine some of the perceived shortfalls within the Intelligence Community. I will address the lack of covert Human Intelligence sources in penetrating terrorist organizations worldwide, the lack of experienced intelligence analysts focusing on terrorism, and finally, the lack of sharing of raw intelligence data within the US Intelligence Community. My solutions are simple. The recruiting of terrorist sources is paramount in order collect credible intelligence in the war on terrorism. The Intelligence Community must shift focus from the old Cold War threat to a forward looking organization capable of providing the necessary intelligence to defeat the asymmetric threat facing US interests worldwide. The Intelligence Community must make greater use of the electronic collaborative environment to ensure the sharing of critical intelligence. My purpose in writing this paper is to improve awareness of this issue among members of the Army's sustaining base and generate debate as a means to affect a positive change within the Intelligence Community."
Army Management Staff College (U.S.)
Greene, Thomas H.
-
Medical Management Guidelines for Unidentified Chemicals
All attempts should be made to determine the identity of the hazardous material before the Unidentified Chemical guideline is used. Responders should obtain assistance in identifying the chemical(s) from container shapes, placards, labels, shipping papers, and analytical tests. General information on these identification techniques is located in Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents Volumes I and II. The Unidentified Chemical protocol provides basic victim management recommendations but the techniques for a specific chemical could provide information which would allow more effective patient treatment.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
-
Bioterrorism: An Overview
This PowerPoint presentation provides background information to show how a bioterrorist attack could occur, the specific roles of different types of laboratories in the event of an attack, and how each should be prepared to respond.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
