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Declining Reliability of the U.S. Inland Waterway System
"The roughly 12,000-mile U.S. inland and intracoastal waterway system is an integral, albeit largely unnoticed, part of our nation's freight transportation system (see Figure 1). This network handles about 600 million tons, and 300 billion ton-miles, of domestic cargo movements annually -- principally raw materials and liquid and bulk primary products, like coal, petroleum, chemicals, grain, processed metals, cement, sand and gravel.1 It is the primary artery for more than half of the nation's grain and oilseed exports, for about 20 percent of the coal for utility plants, and for about 22 percent of domestic petroleum movements. From a national transportation perspective it is a 'quiet' mode, largely unnoticed by a general public used to dodging trucks on the highways or stopping for freight trains at suburban crossings. However, the infrastructure that supports this quiet mode is starting to show its age, and a major failure at one of its component locks and dams could have serious economic consequences that would give the quiet mode some very loud public attention."
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Grier, David V.
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National Organization on Disability [website]
This is the official site for the National Organization on Disability. The site offers publications and resources aimed toward increasing resiliency and opportunities for Americans with disabilities. From the website's "About Us" section: "The National Organization on Disability (NOD) is a private, non-profit organization that promotes the full participation of America's 56 million people with disabilities in all aspects of life. Today, NOD focuses on increasing employment opportunities for the 79 percent of working-age Americans with disabilities who are not employed."
National Organization on Disability (U.S.)
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Food Policy Institute [website]
"The Food Policy Institute is a research unit of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey that addresses food policy issues. We view our role in food policy research as supporting public and private decision makers who shape aspects of the food system within which government, agriculture, industry and the consumer interact."
Rutgers University. Food Policy Institute
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies (CIS) [website]
From the 'Who We Are' section of the website: "The Center for International Studies (CIS) aims to support and promote international research and education at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]. Whenever possible, we capitalize on MIT's great strengths in science and engineering, examining the international aspects of these fields as they relate to both policy and practice, and focusing on those issues where science and engineering intersect most closely with foreign affairs. CIS includes 160 members of the MIT faculty and staff, mainly drawn from the departments of political science and urban studies, and visiting scholars from around the world. We sponsor formal programs, multidisciplinary working groups and numerous public events. While CIS does not offer teaching programs, the Center's faculty and staff engage with students as colleagues in research, audiences in public events, and enthusiastic participants in the MISTI [MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives] international internship program. We also assist MIT students in obtaining external funds for international activities through the CIS fellowship database."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies
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ECPAT International [website]
"ECPAT [International Campaign to End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism] International is a global network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free and secure from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation."
ECPAT International
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Active Shooter - How to Respond: Guidance on How to Respond to an Active Shooter Situation and React When Law Enforcement Responds
This pamphlet provides guidance on how to respond to an active shooter situation and react when law enforcement responds. It includes information on recognizing a potential active shooter; coping with an active shooter situation; responding when law enforcement arrives. The pamphlet also includes several helpful diagrams and tables to assist in an active shooter situation.
United States. Office of Personnel Management. Federal Executive Board
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Insider Threat: An Introduction to Detecting and Deterring an Insider Spy
"A company can often detect or control when an outsider (non-employee) tries to access company data either physically or electronically, and can mitigate the threat of an outsider stealing company property. However, the thief who is harder to detect and who could cause the most damage is the insider--the employee with legitimate access. That insider may steal solely for personal gain, or that insider may be a 'spy'--someone who is stealing company information or products in order to benefit another organization or country. [...] This brochure serves as an introduction for managers and security personnel on how to detect an insider threat and provides tips on how to safeguard your company's trade secrets."
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States. Department of Justice
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Insider Threats: Combating the Enemy Within Your Organization
"This brochure is intended to help contractors within the National Industrial Security Program recognize possible indications of espionage being committed by persons entrusted to protect this nation's secrets. Not every suspicious circumstance or behavior represents a spy in our midst, but every situation needs to be examined to determine whether our nation's secrets are at risk. DSS [Defense Security Service] defines insider threat as: Acts of commission or omission by an insider who intentionally or unintentionally compromises or potentially compromises DoD's ability to accomplish its mission. These acts include, but are not limited to, espionage, unauthorized disclosure of information, and any other activity resulting in the loss or degradation of departmental resources or capabilities."
United States. Defense Security Service
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Radiation Basics Made Simple
From the outline: "'Radiation Basics Made Simple' features an enhanced lecture-style video and interactive knowledge checks to deliver and reinforce key concepts. The training is divided into eight segments: [1] Sources of Radiation [2] Radioactive Decay [3] Measuring Radiation [4] Biological Effects of Radiation [5] Radiation Protection [6] Decontamination [7] Environmental Impact of Radioactivity [8] Responding to Radiation Emergencies."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Capability Gap Survey and Assessment Process
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Operations Coordination and Planning, Plans Division uses a survey and assessment process to help inform capability-based planning at DHS. The process integrates self-assessments and strategic-level policy guidance via a survey tool to assess capability and capacity shortfalls more efficiently and accurately than otherwise possible. The Plans Division is periodically tasked to develop assessments of DHS operational capabilities. However, a traditional DHS-wide inventory audit might lack the accuracy, timeliness, and support necessary to successfully assess all capabilities useful for homeland security missions, especially complex ones like "preventing terrorism" that are hard to count The Plans Division is periodically tasked to develop assessments of DHS operational capabilities. However, a traditional DHS-wide inventory audit might lack the accuracy, timeliness, and support necessary to successfully assess all capabilities useful for homeland security missions, especially complex ones like 'preventing terrorism' that are hard to count"
United States. Department of Homeland Security
Roller, Robert J.
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Open Cities Project [website]
"The Open Cities Project aims to catalyze the creation, management and use of open data to produce innovative solutions for urban planning and resilience challenges across South Asia. [...] [T]he Open Cities Project is composed of two complementary components. The first part of the initiative is to gather asset and exposure data in urban areas. This is an important step toward creating a robust asset inventory, which will form the base layer of urban planning and risk information systems. The second part of the project involves facilitating ongoing civic hacking engagements that leverage the asset data collected in South Asia to create tools and applications that improve urban planning and disaster resilience across the region. The Open Cities Project enables the collection of data through open and participatory methods and is conducted in partnership with local government agencies, universities, technical communities, and the private sector. This approach, as demonstrated in other World Bank projects in Haiti, Indonesia, and Tanzania, allows a broad range of members in society to participate in the effort to understand and improve urban resilience."
World Bank; Open Cities Project
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Rhode Island State Fusion Center [website]
"The Rhode Island State Fusion Center was founded in 2005 following the identification of intelligence shortfalls after 9/11. The Fusion Center, which is under the command of a Rhode Island State Police Lieutenant, is staffed by four intelligence analysts, an intelligence officer from the Department of Homeland Security, and sworn members of the Rhode Island State Police. The Fusion Center was established to investigate potential terrorist activity, as well as to facilitate the dissemination of the intelligence information to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. The scope of the Fusion Center has expanded to include the investigation of all criminal activity. [...] The Mission of the Rhode Island State Fusion Center is to facilitate the efficient, timely, and accurate exchange of information between local, state, and federal public safety agencies and private sector organizations. Through a cooperative and coordinated approach, the Fusion Center will augment law enforcement operations by acting as a centralized, comprehensive criminal intelligence center to coordinate the exchange of criminal information on a statewide basis. The Rhode Island Fusion Center will collect, analyze and disseminate intelligence information in an effort to identify, investigate, and prevent criminal activity relevant to terrorism and public safety. Those assigned to the Fusion Center actively investigate all information and leads received that could be associated with terrorist activity or may pose a threat to Homeland Security."
Rhode Island State Fusion Center
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Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Homeland Security [website]
"On February 22, 2012, Governor Tom Corbett signed an Executive Order (2012-03) establishing the Governor's Office of Homeland Security (GOHS). The GOHS consists of the Homeland Security Advisor (Commissioner, State Police), the Homeland Security Director and a staff to carry out the Homeland Security functions in accordance with the procedures of the Governor's Office of Administration. [...]The Governor's Office of Homeland Security coordinates homeland security activities by working with our federal partners, other Pennsylvania departments and agencies, regional task forces, local governments and the private sector. "
Pennsylvania. Governor's Office of Homeland Security
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JIEDDO: Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization [website]
Established in February 2006, JIEDDO is focused on six areas: driving down the effectiveness of IED attacks; homemade explosives, primarily made from fertilizer; the threat to dismounted operations in Afghanistan; the transition from coalition security to the Iraqi government; working toward a whole-of-government approach to resolve the challenges associated with IEDs; and on the resurgence of improvised rocket-aided munitions in Iraq.
Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (U.S.)
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Biological and Chemical Agent Quick Reference
This is a reference sheet of biological and chemical agents, their signs and symptoms and directions for decontamination.
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
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Preventing and Detecting Bid Rigging, Price Fixing, and Market Allocation in Post-Disaster Rebuilding Projects: An Antitrust Primer for Agents and Procurement Officials
"American consumers have the right to expect the benefits of free and open competition -- the best goods and services at the lowest prices. Public and private organizations often rely on a competitive bidding process to achieve that end. The competitive process only works, however, when competitors set prices honestly and independently. When competitors collude, prices are inflated and the customer is cheated. Price fixing, bid rigging, and other forms of collusion are illegal and are subject to criminal prosecution by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. As a member of the Department of Justice Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force, the Antitrust Division is committed to offering our expertise and assistance in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. As FEMA and state and local government agencies with whom FEMA is coordinating begin to solicit competitive bids for rebuilding contracts, the Antitrust Division is prepared to provide assistance to these agencies to protect against bid rigging, price fixing and other collusive conduct among companies competing for rebuilding contracts. Experienced Antitrust Division attorneys are available to provide training to law enforcement agents, auditors, and procurement personnel in the affected areas to assist them in identifying and preventing potential bid rigging and collusion in the competitive bidding process. If collusive conduct is discovered, the Antitrust Division stands ready to criminally prosecute the individuals and corporations seeking to unjustly profit from this tragedy."
United States. Department of Justice
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Global Climate Change: National Security Implications
"On March 29-31, 2007, the Strategic Studies Institute and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies conducted a colloquium on 'Global Climate Change: National Security Implications' held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This volume is based on the proceedings of this conference. Chapter 1 addresses the growing historical awareness of the threat and outlines the science of climate-change. Chapters 2 and 3 focus on how climate change might affect human societies and the degree to which it might cause or exacerbate violence and conflict. Particular attention is paid to the implications for the security of the United States. Chapters 4 and 5 consider a variety of potential solutions, ranging from international diplomacy to the development of efficient technologies. Chapters 6 and 7 focus on the role of the U.S. Armed Forces. What can they do and what should they do to mitigate climate change or prepare to meet the threat? Chapter 8 summarizes and concludes. Contributors to this volume agree that climate change is a threat deserving of serious attention. They stress the need for greater planning and coordination and for further research as well as the utility of engagement-military to military and state to state-on environmental issues. They differ as to whether the Armed Forces should play a leading or supporting role, but agree that they can-and already do-make a valuable contribution."
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Pumphrey, Carolyn W. (Carolyn Wilson), 1955-
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Effective Risk Communication: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Guidelines for External Risk Communication
"Today's environment for risk communication is complex. Public fear and concern about exposures to hazards have increased along with a corresponding demand for information. The NRC is working to integrate risk analysis into its regulatory activities, and this trend is mirrored in many other government agencies in the United States and abroad. As risk analysis becomes an important dimension of public policy, the need to improve risk communication with internal and external stakeholders is also increasing."
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Persensky, J.; Browde, S.; Szabo, A.
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Compilation of Gang-Related Legislation [website]
"Using automated databases and working with a variety of entities, the National Gang Center identifies gang-related legislation. This information is updated as new legislation and existing legislation are identified."
United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Detention and Removal Operations: Semiannual Report on Compliance with ICE National Detention Standards January-June 2007
"In 2007, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enacted a multi-year strategy of improving immigration enforcement. This strategy targets criminal aliens, fugitive aliens, and the criminal infrastructure that supports illegal immigration, and has an enhanced focus on worksite enforcement and elimination of the jobs magnet that draw illegal workers to the United States. A key component in executing this strategy is providing safe, secure and compliant detention facilities for all ICE detainees, once a determination has been made to assume custody. Essential to ensuring that these facilities provide appropriate conditions of confinement is the ICE Detention Facility Inspection Program. In order to facilitate transparency of the ICE Detention Facility Inspection Program, the Assistant Secretary of ICE directed that the Office of Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) report semi-annually on agency-wide adherence with the ICE National Detention Standards (NDS). ICE, with the assistance of law enforcement professionals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), has carefully crafted 38 National Detention Standards, which are explained in detail in Appendix A. This is the first such report issued under this directive and covers the period of January through June 2007. It explains the standards that ICE uses to rate the performance of detention facilities, and shows results for the six months covered by this report."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) [website]
"The goal of the G.R.E.A.T. Program is to help youth develop positive life skills that will help them avoid gang involvement and violent behavior. G.R.E.A.T. uses a communitywide approach to combat the risk factors associated with youth involvement in gang-related behaviors. The curricula were developed through the collaborative efforts of experienced law enforcement officers and specialists in criminology, sociology, psychology, education, health, and curriculum design and are designed to reinforce each other."
Institute for Intergovernmental Research (U.S.)
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Consular Notification and Access: Instructions for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement and Other Officials Regarding Foreign Nationals in the United States and the Rights of Consular Officials to Assist Them
"This booklet contains instructions and guidance relating to the arrest and detention of foreign nationals, the appointment of guardians for minors or incompetent adults who are foreign nationals, and related issues pertaining to the provision of consular services to foreign nationals in the United States. This booklet is designed to help ensure that foreign governments can extend appropriate consular services to their nationals in the United States and that the United States complies with its legal obligations to such governments. The instructions and guidance herein should be followed by all federal, state, and local government officials, whether law enforcement, judicial, or other, insofar as they pertain to foreign nationals subject to such officials' authority or to matter within such officials' competence."
United States. Bureau of Consular Affairs
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Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Creating a National Framework
"Our national security system is principally designed to deter and defeat state-based threats, which it does with great success. But it is precisely because of our overwhelming capability to overcome conventional threats that our enemies will attempt to defeat us through other means. That fact, along with the increasing danger of transnational, regional, and substate threats has made it clear that the most dangerous threats the United States will face in the 21st century are as likely to come not from other states but from within states, and principally from within weak or poorly-governed states. The Westphalian world order is being challenged by a new form of insurgency -- transnational, distributed, networked, and ideologically driven -- that is most graphically represented by al-Qaeda, a global Islamist movement that seeks to replace secular governments with theocratic Islamic regimes hostile to liberal values and secular democracy. The War on Terrorism is a national response to high-profile violence conducted by small but potent movements of violent extremists seeking to destabilize and disempower national governments. Their targets are nations whose policies and presence in Islamic countries prevents the realization of their vision of a global 'virtual Caliphate' of Islamic governments in predominantly Muslim countries around the world. Other non-state organizations using terrorism or organized political violence for local or global ends that are inimical to US national interests adds to the challenge."
United States. Agency for International Development
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Combating Terrorism: The Role of USAID and Development Assistance
"In the post September 11 world, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been called upon to play an increasingly prominent role in the War on Terror. The Agency's humanitarian and development assistance programs, especially when directed toward at-risk populations and regions, have been recognized as critical components in the U.S. National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (NSCT) and its accompanying National Implementation Plan-NIP. These programs can play a crucial role in denying terrorists sanctuary and financing by diminishing the underlying conditions that cause local populations to become vulnerable to terrorist recruitment. Moreover, USAID programs directed at strengthening effective and legitimate governance are recognized as key tools to address counterinsurgency (COIN)."
United States. Agency for International Development
Baltazar, Thomas; Kvitashvili, Elisabeth
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Domestic Shipping: Vital to the Nation's Economy, Security and Transportation
"Domestic waterborne shipping in the United States moves 14% of the national cargo tonnage for less than 2% of the freight bill, provides an estimated 124,000 direct jobs, generates $10 billion in annual freight revenue, and provides $300 million and $55 million in federal and state tax revenue respectively. Domestic waterborne transportation is safe, reliable, efficient and an established mainstay of America's national transport system. (1) The total volume of domestic water trade is immense. In 1996, the volume of cargo moved between U.S. Ports by the domestic fleet exceeded one billion tons. (2) The total direct economic activity associated with the domestic trade is approximately $10 billion per year, which includes more than $4 billion in direct wages paid to vessel crews and shore side managers. To encourage a strong U.S. merchant marine for both national defense and economic security, the nation's domestic waterborne commerce is reserved for vessels built in the United States, owned and crewed by American citizens, and registered under the American flag. U.S. laws governing the domestic transportation of passengers and cargo by water are generally known as the Jones Act, named after Senator Wesley Jones (R-WA) the sponsor of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. The Jones Act continues to be the foundation for America's domestic shipping policy. This pamphlet describes America's domestic shipping trades and the essential services they provide for a healthy, growing economy."
United States. Maritime Administration
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Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Upgrading of Shore Facilities in Support of United States Coast Guard Missions
"This report presents the results of our audit of shore facilities that support the missions of the United States Coast Guard. Our objective was to determine the extent to which the United States Coast Guard is properly maintaining, rehabilitating, and upgrading its shore facilities. The United States Coast Guard has been working diligently to maintain its more than 22,000 shore facilities. However, as each year passes, this task is becoming increasingly challenging. More than 80% of its current acquisition, construction, and improvements funding is directed to the Integrated Deepwater System Program, leaving funding available for shore facilities well below the industry and United States Coast Guard accepted standard of 2% of plant replacement value. For fiscal years 2003 through 2006, the United States Coast Guard funded shore acquisition, construction, and improvements at approximately 0.3% of plant replacement value, resulting in a funding gap of about $511 million. To compensate for the gap, the United States Coast Guard improperly used maintenance funds to upgrade or expand its shore facilities."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
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North American Migration Flyways Map
This is a map produced by the United States Geological Survey Alaska Science Center on North American migratory bird flyways in order to examine the potential pathways for distribution of avian influenza.
Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Flyways of the World Map
This is a map produced by the United States Geological Survey Alaska Science Center on world migratory bird flyways in order to examine the potential pathways for distribution of avian influenza.
Geological Survey (U.S.)
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TRF PolicyMap [website]
PolicyMap, is a website that "combines sophisticated technology and the best analytical tools to deliver a new level of accessibility to data. And we mean all kinds of data - more than 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate markets, money and income, education, crime and more. PolicyMap is a tool for all of you who wished there was an easier way to incorporate the power of data into the decisions you make. It's fast, efficient and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom maps, tables and reports."
Reinvestment Fund
2008
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Tobacco and Terror: How Cigarette Smuggling is Funding our Enemies Abroad
"It has been well --reported that terrorist and criminal organizations are conducting illicit business operations within the United States, sending the profits overseas to finance domestic and international terrorist and criminal organizations. Recent law enforcement investigations have revealed that these profits, estimated to bin the millions of dollars annually in the United States alone, are generated in part by illicit cigarette trafficking. Historically, the low-risk, high profitability of the illicit cigarette trade served as a gateway for traditional criminal traffickers to move into lucrative and dangerous criminal enterprises such as money laundering, arms dealing, and drug trafficking. Recent law enforcement investigations, however, have directly linked those involved in illicit tobacco trade to infamous terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and al Qaeda. These startling discoveries led U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Peter T. King (R-NY) to launch an investigation of the issue. The following staff report-which will focus on the estimated millions of dollars in illicit tobacco profits being funneled to terrorist groups overseas as well as New York State's refusal to enforce tobacco laws-is the result of numerous interviews with law enforcement officials at the local, state and Federal level, as well as open-source research."
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
