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  • Experts identify common post-attack response problems

    Multi-disciplinary panel of blast-related injury experts takes a close look at common triage, scene security, and communications difficulties; researchers hope to identify best practices

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  • GAO raps Project 25 interoperability grants

    Federal government has spent $2.15 billion on expensive but uncompatible radios; a lack of strategic vision

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  • LAPD rapped for lax oversight of anti-terror unit

    Auditors criticize Anti-Terrorist Intelligence Section for failuring to properly screen officers; management criticized for failing to excercise appropriate supervision of this controversial unit

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  • Florida cities unveil technology wish lists

    Cities from Miramar to Pembroke Pines get ready to spend their Urban Areas Security Initiative dollars; metal detectors and mobile traffic light manufacturers will find opportunities in the Sunshine State

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  • Body armor business booms

    Companies such as Ceradyne and Armor Holding post large gains after DoD spends $5 billion in five years to protect troops; smaller companies find niche markets in custom-wear, police

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  • USBX reports heavy merger activity

    Explosives detection and video surveillance among segments under consolidation; M&A increased 50 percent overall last year, says research firm

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  • DHS makes twenty-two small business awards

    Winning companies will receive up to $100,000 to refine their ideas; contracts given in WMD detection, ground sensors, mobile biological assays, emergency pre-planning software systems, and simulation training

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  • Securities investors bullish on homeland security

    New York Society of Security Analysts kicks of conference with confidence; Federal Reserve weighs in

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  • Fifty percent growth expected for homeland security market

    Homeland Security Research Corporation issues a hefty report; individual sectors scrutinized by size and growth potential

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  • War on terror harms police recruiting

    High salaries in the private sector and reserve call-ups drain local police forces; Springfield police department finds itself thirty-five officers short of authorized strength

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  • DHS releases $194 million in emergency management grants

    States can use the money for equipment, training, and salaries; California, Texas, and New York are the big winners

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  • Chesapeake Innovation Center struggles

    Interim director resigns as CIC confronts looming budget problems; calls mount to take the center under private management; new leadership reaches out to Northrop Grumman and others; loss of NSA contract a major blow

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  • Top 100 DHS contractors announced

    Government Security News provides its annual rankings; Hurricane Katrina may have skewed the results toward environmental cleanup companies; Shaw Environmental, Bechtel, and C2HM Hill Constructors lead the pack

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  • Congress takes a serious look at Cyren Call

    After an FCC rejection in November, the Commerce committee revisits the idea of creating a national wireless network for first responders; John McCain offers his support; critics, angry about the idea of giving away valuable spectrum, gird for battle

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  • Maine lawmakers revolt against Real ID Act

    State is first in the nation to pass a resolution demanding the act be repealed, but eight others are considering it too; legislators upset over $185 million cost and doubt the program’s utility; privacy advocates call it a national nightmare

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More headlines

  • Trump 2026 Budget Plan Boosts Defense, Homeland Security
  • Another cybersecurity False Claims Act settlement
  • Trump wants $1 trillion for Pentagon
  • DOD to deploy counter-drone capabilities at US-Mexico border as cartels surveil troops
  • Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for swift deportations is illegal, Trump-appointed judge rules
  • DOGE Cuts Off Funds to Congressionally Mandated National Security Centers
  • The FBI and other agencies are using polygraphs to find leakers. But do they work?
  • US judge limits Trump's ability to swiftly deport migrants held at Guantanamo Bay
  • S. Korea says DeepSeek transferred data to Chinese company without consent
  • White House proposes sanctions, directs DHS to investigate immigration attorneys
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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The long view

  • Kinetic Operations Bring Authoritarian Violence to Democratic Streets

    By Etienne Soula and Lea George

    Foreign interference in democracies has a multifaceted toolkit. In addition to information manipulation, the tactical tools authoritarian actors use to undermine democracy include cyber operations, economic coercion, malign finance, and civil society subversion.

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  • Patriots’ Day: How Far-Right Groups Hijack History and Patriotic Symbols to Advance Their Cause, According to an Expert on Extremism

    By Art Jipson

    Extremist groups have attempted to change the meaning of freedom and liberty embedded in Patriots’ Day — a commemoration of the battles of Lexington and Concord – to serve their far-right rhetoric, recruitment, and radicalization. Understanding how patriotic symbols can be exploited offers important insights into how historical narratives may be manipulated, potentially leading to harmful consequences in American society.

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  • Trump Aims to Shut Down State Climate Policies

    By Alex Brown

    President Donald Trump has launched an all-out legal attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy. Climate-focused state leaders say his administration has no legal basis to unravel their efforts.

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  • Vaccine Integrity Project Says New FDA Rules on COVID-19 Vaccines Show Lack of Consensus, Clarity

    By Stephanie Soucheray

    Sidestepping both the FDA’s own Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), two Trump-appointed FDA leaders penned an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine to announce new, more restrictive, COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. Critics say that not seeking broad input into the new policy, which would help FDA to understand its implications, feasibility, and the potential for unintended consequences, amounts to policy by proclamation.

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  • Twenty-One Things That Are True in Los Angeles

    To understand the dangers inherent in deploying the California National Guard – over the strenuous objections of the California governor – and active-duty Marines to deal with anti-ICE protesters, we should remind ourselves of a few elementary truths, writes Benjamin Wittes. Among these truths: “Not all lawful exercises of authority are wise, prudent, or smart”; “Not all crimes require a federal response”; “Avoiding tragic and unnecessary confrontations is generally desirable”; and “It is thus unwise, imprudent, and stupid to take actions for performative reasons that one might reasonably anticipate would increase the risks of such confrontations.”

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  • Luigi Mangione and the Making of a ‘Terrorist’

    Discretion is crucial to the American tradition of criminal law, Jacob Ware and Ania Zolyniak write, noting that “lawmakers enact broader statutes to empower prosecutors to pursue justice while entrusting that they will stay within the confines of their authority and screen out the inevitable “absurd” cases that may arise.” Discretion is also vital to maintaining the legitimacy of the legal system. In the prosecution’s case against Luigi Mangione, they charge, “That discretion was abused.”

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