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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.)
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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.)
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Our Crippled Public Diplomacy
Our public diplomacy instrument is broken. Established by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower to both "tell America's story" and to promote our foreign policy objectives. our information program needs fixing. Especially in the wake of September 11th, our government's ability to influence foreign public opinion has been profoundly questioned. President Bush, Chairman Biden, and Congressmen Hyde and Lantos have asked in various forums, "Why can't America state its case overseas" and be convincing?
United States Information Agency. Alumni Association
Coffey, Fred A.
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National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (NCPTSD) [website]
The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (NCPTSD) was created within the Department of Veterans Affairs as a means to advance the care and welfare of veterans dealing with PTSD and stress-related disorders. Their website aims to be an educational resource concerning PTSD (http://www.ncptsd.org/topics/gen_info_ptsd.html) and other enduring consequences of traumatic stress.
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (U.S.)
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) [website]
A webpage for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that provides research and evidence-based information on health care outcomes, quality, cost, use, and access. AHRQ is the health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complementing the biomedical research mission of its sister agency, the National Institutes of Health. More specifically, Health services research examines how people get access to health care, how much care costs, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. The main goals of health services research are to identify the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high-quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety.
United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Misuse and Abuse of 911
This guide addresses the problem of misuse and abuse of 911. It begins by describing the problem and its scope. It then identifies a series of questions to help you analyze your local problem, and discusses potential responses to it. There is little evaluative research on 911 misuse and abuse. The responses suggested are based on sound problem-oriented policing principles, but as new phone technology poses additional challenges, some responses have yet to be tested. Thus, this guide is mainly intended to describe an urgent problem and encourage police agencies to analyze and address it.
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
Sampson, Rana
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Explosions and Blast Injuries: A Primer for Clinicians
Explosions can produce unique patterns of injury seldom seen outside combat. When they do occur, they have the potential to inflict multi-system life-threatening injuries on many persons simultaneously. The injury patterns following such events are a product of the composition and amount of the materials involved, the surrounding environment, delivery method (if a bomb), the distance between the victim and the blast, and any intervening protective barriers or environmental hazards. Because explosions are relatively infrequent, blast-related injuries can present unique triage, diagnostic, and management challenges to providers of emergency care. Few U.S. health professionals have experience with explosive-related injuries. Vietnam era physicians are retiring, other armed conflicts have been short-lived, and until this past decade, the U.S. was largely spared of the scourge of mega-terrorist attacks. This primer introduces information relevant to the care of casualties from explosives and blast injuries.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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American College of Emergency Physicians [website]
This ACEP webpage provides a range of resources on bioterrorism such Smallpox and Anthrax. The organization acts as an emergency medicine advocate on Capitol Hill and speaks out on health care issues that affect emergency physicians and the patients they care for. It also provides extensive practice management and education resources for its members.
American College of Emergency Physicians
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [website]
This is the official website for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration. NIST is a federal physical science research laboratory. This site provides links to NIST background information, current projects, and other technology-related news.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
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National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) [website]
NEMA is the professional association of and for state emergency management directors. NEMA provides national leadership and expertise in comprehensive emergency management. This website provides related links, conferences, and news on emergency management and planning.
National Emergency Management Association
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Ed.Gov: Emergency Planning [website]
This is an official site of the U.S Department of Education. This site offers emergency planning information for schools, crisis planning resources, press releases, and other links for community and educational safety.
United States. Department of Education
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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) [website]
The ATSDR is an agency for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that performs specific functions concerning hazardous substances in the environment and their effect on public health. More specifically, it's functions include public health assessments of waste sites, health consultations concerning specific hazardous substances, health surveillance and registries, response to emergency releases of hazardous substances, applied research in support of public health assessments, information development and dissemination, and education and training concerning hazardous substances.
United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
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Export Controls: Export Controls: Inadequate Justification for Relaxation of Computer Controls Demonstrates Need for Comprehensive Study: Statement of Susan S. Westin, Managing Director, International Affairs and Trade before the Committee on Governmental Affairs
The President's January 2001 changes in the export control thresholds for high performance computer exports are not adequately justified. Although the President's report recognizes that high performance computing capabilities will become increasingly available to other countries through computer clustering, the report fails to address all military significant uses for computers at the new thresholds and assess the national security impact of such uses. The support for the President's policy proposal for relaxed U.S. computer controls also is not adequate. Although the new policy was based on the conclusion that computer hardware exports can no longer be controlled, the executive branch did not adequately assess alternative control options. GAO identified several implications of the changes to the control thresholds and the proposed change in U.S. computer export control policy related to increased risks for U.S. national security. For example, the inadequacies of the President's justifications demonstrate the need for a comprehensive study of the issues involved. Furthermore, the policy proposal would reduce information that might be useful in detecting patterns of exports to customers engaged in proliferation activities because it would eliminate an annual reporting requirement that provides information on end users.
United States. General Accounting Office
