The Office of Personnel Management Monday posted on its Web site a detailed list of 52 options for the Homeland Security Department’s new personnel system. The list includes a range of choices that touch on everything from pay, performance evaluation and job classification systems to labor relations, disciplinary processes and...
Ridge and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister John Manley emphasized the U.S. policy to exempt Canadian citizens from the Visitor Immigrant Status Indication Technology, or the VISIT system, approved by Congress could change as implementation plans solidify. To find out more, click here. U.S. Visit System Article formerly posted at https://www.hsdl.org/blog/newpost/view/s_43
Press release by the Transportation Security Agency, Oct. 1, 2003. The TSA’s Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC) provided 40 recommendations covering 22 topic areas for improving air cargo security. Details, including fact sheet and presentations may be found at http://www.tsa.gov/public/display?theme=44&content=720 Article formerly posted at https://www.hsdl.org/blog/newpost/view/s_44
The Homeland Security Department needs to keep a closer eye on the high-tech workers admitted to the United States under a special visa program, congressional investigators said Thursday. For more information, view the GAO report at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03883.pdf Article formerly posted at https://www.hsdl.org/blog/newpost/view/s_42
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has released their fourth edition of “Homeland Confidential. How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public’s Right to Know” To read the report, click here. Homeland Confidential 4th ed. Article formerly posted at https://www.hsdl.org/blog/newpost/view/s_41
Despite the government’s recent efforts to integrate dozens of terrorist watch list databases, terrorists may still be slipping through major cracks in homeland defenses by stealing identities and using computers to create fraudulent travel documents, officials told Congress yesterday. Read more at: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,85606,00.html Article formerly posted at https://www.hsdl.org/blog/newpost/view/s_40
Rumsfeld is said to prefer that the Coast Guard concentrate on its Homeland Security mission, protecting the U.S. coastline while the Navy and other armed forces take over port security and other missions overseas. Further information can be found at Service’s Wartime Function Becomes Focus of Debate Article formerly posted...
Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today announced that Illinois will receive a $9.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to build a new state-of-the-art State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC). Blagojevich received word of the grant today from Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. More info at http://www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=2003.10.02-70859 Article...
Within a few years, a new type of microsensor that was unveiled Wednesday by a University of Nevada, Reno professor could improve airport security and protect against suicide bombers. Read more in the Reno Gazette-Journal at
The State Dept just released this report of the Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World. The report, “Changing Minds, Winning Peace: A New Strategic Direction for U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Arab & Muslim World� was submitted to the House Committee on Appropriations. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/24882.pdf The...
