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• Transportation Accidents [infographic]

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  An infographic detailing main dangers behind transportation accidents involving radioactive waste and how you can protect yourself in the event of an accident. From the document: "Radioactive material is transported by trucks, rail, and other shipping methods. Shipments involving significant amounts of radioactive material are required to have documentation, labels, and placards identifying the cargo as radioactive. Radioactive material must be packed in special protective containers that are designed and tested to withstand damage."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Dirty Bomb or Radiological Dispersal Device [infographic]

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  An infographic detailing what a radiological dispersal device (RDD) or "dirty bomb" is and how you can protect yourself. From the document: "A dirty bomb is a mix of explosives, such as dynamite, and radioactive powder or pellets. It is also known as a radiological dispersal device (RDD)."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Sharing Ideas and Resources To Keep Our Nation's Schools Safe (Volume V)

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  "In this fifth volume of 'Sharing Ideas and Resources To Keep Our Nation's Schools Safe', the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Justice Technology Information Center (JTIC), part of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) System, present a new compilation of articles posted on the SchoolSafetyInfo.org website in the past year. While at first glance these articles seem to profile a wide variety of projects and programs, all of them have at least one thing in common. That is, their planners, coordinators and organizers told us the same thing: We want to help other schools. We want them to know what we're doing, and we want them to feel free to call us with questions, to help them start similar projects of their own. In 2017, schools, law enforcement agencies and communities keep on coming together across the United States as they create innovative and groundbreaking solutions to the persistent problems of violence, bullying, security breaches, gang tensions and social media abuse. For the past five years, SchoolSafetyInfo. org has worked toward ensuring that schools and school administrators, local law enforcement agencies and school resource officers know that they're not alone in their quest to make their schools safer, that others are working toward the same goal. We reach out to small rural school districts and to federal government agencies, and we always get the same answer: 'We're taking a proactive approach here, and we want the rest of the country to know about it.'"

  National Institute of Justice (U.S.); National Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology Center (U.S.)

  Lewis, Becky
• Workplace Violence Prevention and Response Guide

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  "Workplace violence can be any act of physical violence, threats of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening, disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site. Workplace violence can affect or involve employees, visitors, contractors, and other non-Federal employees. A number of different actions in the work environment can trigger or cause workplace violence. It may even be the result of non-work-related situations such as domestic violence or 'road rage.' Workplace violence can be inflicted by an abusive employee, a manager, supervisor, co-worker, customer, family member, or even a stranger. Whatever the cause or whoever the perpetrator, workplace violence is not to be accepted or tolerated."

  United States. Army
• Guidance for Emergency Responders in U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

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  "Who this is for: Emergency responders and aid workers traveling to and working in areas of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico impacted by hurricanes and floods. What this is for: NIOSH recommends safety and health precautions for emergency responders and aid workers, addressing hazards that follow natural disasters, including the hurricanes and floods in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. How to use: Use this information to improve safety and reduce exposure risks during the emergency response in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Border Security Analysis Between Ports of Entry

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  "We discuss the application of systems analysis tools and techniques to the development of counters to WMD smuggling across borders between legal ports of entry. This specific problem space is a mixture of threats, terrain, defensive technologies, and both smuggler and border enforcement tactics -- all of which are subject to analysis. Various analytic techniques have been combined into a set applicable to border enforcement operations. This analysis leads to selection of specific Border Security solution sets which are then tested in a virtual test bed. We show an example illustrating employment of these techniques on a segment of the Iraq-Iran border."

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Hibbard, Wilthea J.; Greenwalt, Robert; Henderer, Bruce D.
• Science and Technology for National Security: The Next 50 Years: Pioneering the Endless Frontier

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  "Through the Center for Global Security Research 2002 Futures Project, we are critically examining the role, in a globalized world, that science and technology will play in U.S. national security, as well as the threats science and technology might pose for national security. During the last 50 years, from the end of World War II through the end of the Cold War, science and technology played a significant role in U.S. national security through the development of nuclear weapons, the exploration of space, and breakthroughs in biotechnology and computations. During this time frame, the U.S. government invested heavily in military and civilian science research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) through both direct and indirect mechanisms. These investments supported RD&D in academia, industry, and the national laboratories and built the physical and intellectual infrastructure that contributes vastly to U.S. military and economic dominance. Science and technology continue to be heavily incorporated in the national security portfolio, as part of our conventional and nuclear deterrent, our defenses, our foreign policy, and more recently our homeland security. The funding and coordination are currently dispersed throughout numerous agencies and administrations, from DoD, to DoE, HHS, DoJ, DoC, DoI, DoA, and the new proposed Department of Homeland Security, to NASA, and NSF."

  Center for Global Security Research

  Vergino, Eileen S.
• Radiation Detection Center Technology Fact Sheet

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  This fact sheet includes information on what the Lawrence Livermore National Lab is developing, including: The Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (GRIS), developed to assist arms control inspectors unobtrusively verify nuclear warheads in missiles, the gamma-ray camera is now being used in counter terrorism applications; Compton Cameras, which are particularly useful when searching for nuclear materials or weapons that could be hidden anywhere; cargo container screening techniques that use neutron beams to unobtrusively probe large cargo containers for the presence of nuclear material or weapons; neutron detectors using GaAs-based semiconductors are being developed to monitor cargo containers for nuclear materials during long ocean crossings; germanium detector systems; growing aluminum antimonide crystals; and hand-held cellular phone radiation networks.

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Psychological Operations in Vietnam: Indicators of Effectiveness at the U.S. Army Division Level

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  From the Thesis Abstract: "In this study the research problem was to identify specific psychological operations (PSYOP) feedback indicators of effectiveness applicable at the U.S. Army division level in the Vietnam-type conflict. The purpose of the study was to contribute towards filling what was believed to be a gap in the existing guidance and doctrine available to PSYOP personnel in the field at the tactical unit level. The scope of the study was limited to U.S. Army divisions in Vietnam during the period 1965-69 operating within the political, economic, and military constraints characterized by that time-frame. This study was conducted following the principles and techniques of systems analysis combined with case studies, surveys, and documentary research. Primary and secondary reference material and data were gathered from essentially two general areas: (1) case studies of the U.S. Army divisions in Vietnam, and (2) a survey of selected student officers in the 1968-69 class of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas."

  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

  Morris, R. P.

  1969
• PrepTalks: Understanding the Value of Insurance [video]

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  "In his PrepTalk, Kevelighan shares the pivotal role that insurance plays in people's lives and communities, both before and after a disaster. 'What happens when the water drains, when the dust settles? You have to rebuild an economy,' Kevelighan says. 'This is what insurance does. It gets people back in their jobs. It gets people back in their homes.' He describes the deeper values of insurance, including how insurance improves safety, builds resilience, and promotes innovation. Sean Kevelighan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance Information Institute, an organization dedicated to improving the public's understanding of insurance."

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  Kevelighan, Sean
• Training Community Members to Respond

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  From the Overview: "Engaging the whole community in emergency preparedness and response efforts is key to our nation's security. Individuals and communities that are knowledgeable and trained on the skills necessary to prepare for and respond to emergencies are not only more inclined to act when needed, but also are often better able to withstand and recover from disasters - and help their neighbors do so, too. Local Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) units across the country play a critical role in increasing access to information and training community members so that they feel educated and empowered to act before, during, and after an emergency. This 'Training Community Members to Respond Guide' provides examples of training programs and resources that MRC units can incorporate into their community-based outreach programming. Units are encouraged to train volunteers as instructors, teach the programs in their local communities, and work with community partners to spread the word."

  United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
• Cyberspace as a Complex Adaptive System and the Policy and Opertional Implications for Cyber Warfare

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  From the thesis abstract: "The overall implication of depicting cyberspace as a complex, adaptive ecosystem is that it provides an avenue for further insight and understanding of the complexities associated with operating in cyberspace. This renewed reality highlights a source of vulnerability, a potential threat to national security, due to the intermixing of public and private infrastructure and the reliance of the United States Government (USG) on infrastructure owned and operated by the private sector. The fact that most, if not all, of the underlying infrastructure for seamless cyber interactions are controlled and managed by non-state entities means that the USG most recognize the power of the private sector in cyberspace. This represents a disturber of the familiar international order because the major actor that constitutes and defines international relations (the state) is not able to control cyberspace or to insulate itself from the implications of the new cyber realities. This recognition suggests that adopting a policy position that is primarily offensive in nature better serves the US, especially in regards to the protection of the cyber ecosystems of the private sector. Specifically it proposes that offensive cyber attacks should not be limited to only the authorized entities of the United States military, but should be expanded to include authorized entities in the private sector. Central to this proposition is the introduction of a new element of operational art specific to the cyber realm to guard against unintended consequences--the operational art element of precision."

  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. School of Advanced Military Studies

  Olagbemiro, Albert O.
• U.S. Geological Survey's Wildland Fire Science Program [postcard]

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  This is a postcard advertisement for the U.S. Geological Survey's Wildland Fire Science Program: "The U.S. Geological Survey's Wildland Fire Science Program produces information to identify the causes of wildfires, understand the impacts and benefits of both wildfires and prescribed fires, and help prevent and manage larger, catastrophic events. USGS fire scientists provide information and develop tools that are widely used by stakeholders to make decisions before, during, and after wildfires in desert, grassland, tundra, wetland, and forest ecosystems across the United States."

  Geological Survey (U.S.)
• U.S. Code Title 8 Section 1189 - Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

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  Section 1189 of the U.S. Code Title 8, Designation of foreign terrorist organizations, authorizes the Secretary of State to designate an organization as a foreign terrorist organization if "(A) the organization is a foreign organization; (B) the organization engages in terrorist activity (as defined in section 1182(a)(3)(B) of this title or terrorism (as defined in section 2656f(d)(2) of title 22), or retains the capability and intent to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism); and (C) the terrorist activity or terrorism of the organization threatens the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States."

  United States. Congress. House. Office of the Law Revision Counsel
• Simulating the Expected Value of Changing Spatial Distributions of Wildfire Resources in Response to Wildfire Probability Outlooks

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  From the Executive Summary: "The scope of this research was to place an expected value on fire potential information given to wildfire managers by Predictive Services. Knowing that wildland fire managers pre-position suppression resources based on this information, a simulation was used to model Initial Attack (IA) operations and resulting fire size (and therefore, fire cost) to compare the potential cost savings that would occur given better positioning of IA wildfire suppression resources."

  National Interagency Fire Center (U.S.)

  Christman, Laine
• Amerithrax

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  This link contains records provided through the FBI Vault on anthrax attacks in America: "Amerithrax, short for American anthrax attacks, was a multi-agency investigation led by the FBI. It was launched in October 2001, when letters laced with anthrax powder were mailed to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, U.S. Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, and media offices in New York and Florida. Five people were killed and another 17 were sickened in the attack. The FBI's ensuing investigation led to the U.S. government biological research facility at Ft. Detrick, Maryland and eventually centered on pathologist Bruce Ivins as the culprit. A wide range of investigative documents from the years 2001-2010 are available here."

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Saddam Hussein

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  This link contains records provided through the FBI Vault on Saddam Hussein: "Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) was the president of Iraq from 1979-2003. In 2003, coalition forces invaded Iraq and deposed Hussein. In 2006, he was tried by the Iraqi Interim Government and convicted of the retaliatory executions of 148 Iraqi Shiites. He was executed on December 30, 2006. Part 1 of this release is a March 10, 2005 'Prosecutive Report of Investigation' written for the Iraqi Special Tribunal concerning Hussein's commission of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. Part 2 consists of interviews conducted by the FBI while Hussein was in U.S. custody in 2004; the release's contents range from 2004 to 2006."

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Usama (Osama) Bin Laden

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  This link contains records provided through the FBI Vault on Usama (Osama) Bin Laden: "Usama (or Osama) Bin Laden, founder of the al Qaeda terrorist organization, was born in Saudi Arabia in 1957. On March 10, 1984, Bin Laden and others killed two German nationals. On March 16, 1998, authorities in Tripoli issued an arrest warrant for him for murder and illegal possession of firearms. Bin Laden was also wanted for the August 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He was killed by U.S. forces in May 2011. This release consists of material that predates the 9/11 attacks."

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Mohammed Khalifa

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  This link contains records provided through the FBI Vault on Mohammed Khalifa: "Mohammad Jamal Khalifa Mohammad Jamal Khalifa (1957-2007), brother-in-law of Usama bin Laden, was arrested in the U.S. in December 1994 on immigration charges. Khalifa was deported to Jordan in June 1995 and later released by Jordanian authorities. This release consists of investigative files from the FBI's San Francisco and New York offices concerning his arrest and ties to terrorist financing investigations between the years 1994 and 2003."

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Black September

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  This link contains records provided through the FBI Vault on the Jordanian terrorist group known as Black September.

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• National Security Letters (NSL)

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  This link contains previously classified National Security Letters (NSL). Currently it contains only Part 1 of 1 which are NSL from 2007.

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Safety and Security for US Students Traveling Abroad

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  From the Document: "Living and studying in another country will be an enriching and rewarding experience, especially if you are prepared and take certain precautions. This brochure will introduce you to threats you may face and provide tips on avoiding unsafe situations. Following these precautions will reduce your risk of encountering problems."

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States. Department of Justice
• Healthcare Coalition Pediatric Surge Annex Template

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  From the Document: "This pediatric-focused operational annex is meant to be an annex to a coalition's HCC [Healthcare Coalition] Response Plan. It is intended to be a high-level response plan, identifying the experts and specialized resources that exist within the HCC, the mechanisms/ processes that will be used to determine which patients go to which facilities, and an understanding of how many children each facility will need to plan to receive. Each facility is encouraged to develop more detailed plans that support their individual operations, but that level of detail is not necessary in this annex. This template provides general headers and descriptions for a sample HCC Pediatric Surge Annex Template. The resources used to develop this template include sample HCC plans and the Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities."

  United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
• Lessons Learned from the Pulse Nightclub Shooting: An Interview with Staff from Orlando Regional Medical Center

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  From the Document: "On June 12, 2016, a gunman opened fire in Orlando's Pulse nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding at least 66. Dr. John Hick (ASPR [Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response] TRACIE's [Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange] Senior Editor) interviewed the responding trauma surgeons, emergency physicians, and the director of emergency preparedness in charge of Orlando Regional Medical Center's response to this horrific incident to learn more about their experiences and lessons learned. The staff noted several challenges, including issues related to the infrequent use of the mass casualty notification system by emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, staff silencing their cell phones while off-duty, staff experiencing difficulties with getting to work (due to closed roads), the confusion associated with the rumor of an active shooter at the hospital, and the family reunification process. Despite these challenges, the staff felt that the response worked well overall--due, in part, to conducting exercises and planning ahead, they never ran out of supplies and were able to identify all patients within 24 hours."

  United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
• When Hospitals Become Islands: One Facility's Evacuation Story

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  From the Document: "Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey struck Houston and surrounding areas more than once, dumping close to 60 inches of rain over a wide swath of the area in just a few days. Hospitals became islands, roads were impassable, and military and public safety helicopters were brought in to evacuate people from their rooftops. Todd Senters [...] shares how staff in his facility worked tirelessly to care for existing patients (and those who were dropped off by helicopter) just prior to having to evacuate due to a breach in the City of Beaumont's water pumps."

  United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
• Evacuating, Treating, and Tracking People on Dialysis: Lessons Learned from the 2017 Hurricane Season

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  From the Document: "The 2017 hurricane season devastated many areas of the nation, several repeatedly. After Hurricane Irma struck the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), many patients were evacuated to Puerto Rico (PR) to ensure continuity of care. Once Hurricane Maria ravaged PR, however, many USVI residents were evacuated a second time, including renal dialysis patients. ASPR [Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response] TRACIE's [Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange] Senior Editor John Hick (MD) interviewed Andy Stevermer, Incident Response Coordination Team (IRCT) Program Manager for ASPR's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Division of Operations (who served as the Operations Section Chief during the response), Commander Selena Ready, a Risk Management Analyst at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) (who served as the IRCT Patient Movement Operations Branch Chief during the response), and Victor Harper (MS, Director of Logistics, ASPR OEM) to learn about this evacuation from a federal patient movement perspective."

  United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
• Healing After a Traumatic Incident: A Responder's Perspective

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  From the Document: "In November 2013, Ross Chávez was serving as the EMS [emergency medical services] Duty Chief for Hennepin EMS when he responded to the scene of a crash involving five children and a female driver who had lost control of her car and landed in a retention pond. All five children were in cardiac arrest when retrieved from the sunken car, although three survived. Ross shared his experience with identifying the need for and receiving mental health assistance after the incident with Dr. John Hick."

  United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
• Engagement of ACOs in Medical Surge Activities

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  From the Document: "Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are groups of healthcare providers and care settings that come together to deliver high-quality care to an assigned patient population. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) supports the development of ACOs through the Medicare Shared Savings Program and Innovation Center Models (e.g., the Next Generation ACO Model). Medicaid and commercial insurers have also established various ACO models for their beneficiary populations. ACOs provide incentives for groups of healthcare entities to coordinate care for their assigned patients with the goal of efficiently providing high quality care as measured by reduced inefficiencies and overall healthcare delivery costs. As a relatively new healthcare delivery and payment model, little is known about the role of Medicare ACOs and their participants in the medical surge response to emergencies and disasters."

  United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
• Active Shooter: What You Can Do to Mitigate Harm

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  This document outlines how to quickly respond to an active shooter situation, and appropriate responses from workplace leadership and personnel.

  Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
• Making a Difference with Teen CERT: Disaster Response Training for Everyone

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  From the document: "Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is a national program of volunteers trained in disaster preparedness and emergency response. Volunteers come from all ages and all walks of life, including teenagers like you! Teen CERT training teaches you about the potential disasters that could affect your area and how to safely and responsibly respond to them. Through Teen CERT you can serve your community and help take care of your school and home."

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; Community Emergency Response Team (U.S.)