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By Robert A. Young
8/4/2010
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Evidence-based management—the application of tested, measurable guidelines to execute plans key to achieving program management goals—reduces variations in execution, instead standardizing the practices (as documented by evidence) and, when transformed into guidelines, in turn improves the quality of program management effort.
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By Amitai Etzioni
2/9/2010
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Our coastlines are wide open.
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By Barry Kellman
1/26/2010
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“How should we cope with a massive anthrax attack, and how can we prepare now so that our coping is optimal?” asks Barry Kellman. The policy progress manifest in President Obama’s Dec. 31 executive order “Medical Countermeasures Following a Biological Attack” and the Homeland Security Department’s Proposed Guidance for Protecting Responders’ Health During the First Week Following a Wide-Area Anthrax Attack” indicates a serious and commendable commitment to address anthrax threats. The question remains, however, whether all of these programs and policies add up to produce security from biothreats and whether more might usefully be done.
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By Peter Humphrey
1/5/2010
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Al-Qaeda’s surprisingly competent tradecraft strongly suggests that it will attempt to pass off some its membership as out-of-area Latins to infiltrate the United States through our southern border. Western intelligence agencies must begin to discern and track Spanish-speaking Muslims aggressively.
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By Kaitlin H. Johnson, Andrea Davis, Mark Santos, Brian Vitelli, and Bruce Rudy
2/27/2009
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Formal personal protective equipment training courses are currently not available to the public nationwide and are usually available only in a workforce setting that requires the specific use of the equipment. Educating the public on personal protective equipment use before an emergency can decrease public panic and allow public health professionals to more effectively and efficiently respond to public health needs during a crisis.
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By Jack Jarmon
9/30/2008
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Jack Jarmon argues that the goal of frictionless trade need not conflict with the goal of secure trade if two distinct business imperatives converge into a single, seamless process organically linking security, production, and distribution, perhaps encouraged by a counterterrorism investment tax credit.
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By Brandon Fried
8/8/2008
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Brandon Fried, Executive Director of the Airforwarders Association, discusses security operations at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport—arguably the most protected aviation facility in the world—which Fried visited in May 2008 with a group of airport managers, Department of Homeland Security officials, elected community leaders, and biometric experts.
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By Nigel West
6/5/2008
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Nigel West discusses whether Cold War tactics would be useful against suicide terrorists who make no effort to conceal their identities.
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By Urs Ziswiler
4/27/2007
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Urs Ziswiler, Swiss Ambassador to the United States, discusses joint activity in combating the financing of terrorism and exchanging information, along with two new areas of cooperation: responding to bioterrorism and threat convergence.
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By Peter Dedic
3/16/2007
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Scott Dedic, Chairman of the International Cargo Security Council, says that 100% cargo container inspections would break the back of global commerce. The council says that government initiatives since 9/11 have addressed the vulnerabilities in transporting containerized cargo to better target and inspect suspect containers before they are loaded onto ships.
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