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Homeland Security Centers of Excellence (HS-Centers) develops technology and training for police and domestic military units, and are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. [1] [2] The Centers were created under the Homeland Security Act in 2002 in order to establish a coordinated, university-based system to increase domestic ...
The START research center also completed a project titled Organizational Dimensions of Risk Communication during Homeland Security Crises. This project focuses on risk communication at the organizational level by "exploring how communications within and among organizations affect risk management and risk communication about bioterrorism."
Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) is a five-year, $10 million program to promote the creation and use of open security and open-source software in the United States government and military. [1] In October 2011, the directorate won the Open Source for America 2011 Government Deployment Open Source Award for the program. [2]
Fusion centers are terrorism prevention and response centers, many of which were created under a joint project between the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs between 2003 and 2007. The fusion centers gather information from government sources as well as their partners in the private ...
History of homeland security in the United States; Homeland Open Security Technology; Homeland Security Act of 2002; Homeland Security Advisory System; Homeland Security Centers of Excellence; Homeland Security Grant Program; Homeland Security Information Network; Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7; Homeland Security Presidential ...
The NBACC was created as a federal response to the anthrax letter attacks in 2001 as the first national laboratory operating under the Department of Homeland Security. [1] The Department of Homeland Security said the mission of the NBACC is "to provide the scientific basis for the characterization of biological threats and bioforensic analysis ...
The Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California is a school focusing on homeland security education.. The Center's programs and resources have been developed to advance the study of homeland security research, scholarship, and professional discipline to enhance U.S. national security and safety.
The Center monitors, collects and shares information on systems belonging to NSA, FBI, DoD, and DHS. The first Director appointed to head the Center was Rod Beckstrom, an entrepreneur and co-author of The Starfish and the Spider. On March 5, 2009, Beckstrom tendered his resignation as the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center. [4]