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• Homeland Security office loses lawsuitWASHINGTON (AP) — The Office of Homeland Security lost the first round in a legal fight to keep its activities secret as a federal judge ruled it will have to answer questions about its power over other federal agencies. ... District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the office to prove it has no authority other than helping and advising President Bush if it wants to dismiss a lawsuit seeking access to its records. ...
• The ruling last week favored the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, which is trying to get Homeland Security records on proposals for a national driver's license and for a "trusted flyer" program that relies on biometric information to identify airline passengers. ...
• Kollar-Kotelly said the center "may inquire into the nature of the authority delegated to (the Office of Homeland Security) to determine whether or not it possesses independent authority. ...
• David Sobel, attorney for the privacy group, called the ruling an intermediate victory over Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. ...
• Homeland Security tried to get the lawsuit dismissed, claiming it doesn't have to release records because it's not an agency. The privacy group said it didn't have enough information to prove otherwise and asked for permission to find out how the office exercises its authority. ...
• 24 to find out whether other agencies receive instructions or directions from Homeland Security or if they have to get the office's approval for policies or activities. ...
• Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the office is reviewing the opinion and working with the Justice Department to figure out what to do next. ...
• The office, created by President Bush after the Sept. ... Earlier this year, Ridge refused to testify before Congress about the office's budget on the grounds that he merely advises President Bush. ...
• Homeland Security will no longer be able to make that argument when it becomes a new federal department on Jan. ...
• Sobel said Homeland Security's increased power and reach will warrant even closer public oversight. ...

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• The Minnesota Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM) will award approximately $2. ... This program is funded by the federal Office of Domestic Preparedness.
• The state of Minnesota will receive $619,000 from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Domestic Preparedness to fund Citizen Corps program activities across the state over the next two years. ...
• The 39th Governor's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Conference will be held March 2-4, 2004 at the Radisson Riverfront — St. ...
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• "The events of September 11 showed us now and forever that we can no longer take our security for granted, but must protect it every hour of every day. ...
• The purpose of this web site is to notify Kansans when the National and State Homeland Security Alert Level change. ...
• Kansas Homeland Security Notification System.
• Subscribe to receive notification of changes to the alert status for state and national Homeland Security from your computer, wireless phone, pager or PDA.

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• Cybersecurity called key to homeland defense.
• Anser Institute for Homeland Security .
• "IT could play big at security office" Federal Computer Week, Sept. ...
• As the Office of Homeland Security takes shape, federal and private-sector technology experts are urging the Bush administration to ensure that cybersecurity is included.
• President Bush created the office last month in response to the Sept. ... The Cabinet-level office will coordinate, not replace, the many federal, state and local agencies involved in protecting the nation against terrorist attacks, officials said.
• "The key here, when it comes to homeland defense, is to have one very effective person at the pinnacle of it who can help co. ...
• The administration is still determining the office's exact structure, including staffing and funding, Fleischer said. Several bills are moving through Congress to better define the office.
• But while much of the reaction to the terrorist attacks has focused on physical security, such as airport and building security, information technology and cybersecurity also must be included, experts said.
• "It is likely that a separate strategy will be needed to ensure that critical computer systems are also protected," Joel Willemssen, managing director of IT issues at the General Accounting Office, testified at a hearing last month. ...
• Now, officials are discussing how that strategy will relate to the Office of Homeland Security, Willemssen said.
• The NIPC also offers vital support to the new office because it coordinates protection and response across different entities, NIPC Director Ronald Dick said.
• Intelligence and information sharing among agencies, as well as quick dissemination of information via the Internet, will be crucial to the office's success, said Mark DeMier, deputy director for operations at the Anser Institute for Homeland Security.

• Congressional leaders in both parties applauded Bush's plan to create a Department of Homeland Security. ...
• In what aides call the most dramatic change in government structure since World War II, President Bush is proposing a sweeping reform of homeland security efforts that would create a new Cabinet office and, within it, an intelligence clearinghouse to gather and analyze information from an array of sources. ...
• Congress would need to approve the new Cabinet post, which would be the Department of Homeland Security, but already there is broad bipartisan support for doing so. ...
• The new Cabinet agency would be called the Department of Homeland Security. Several top White House officials say Tom Ridge, current chief of the Office of Homeland Security, is by far the leading candidate. ...
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• Transport and border security.
• Bush says it can be funded entirely from savings achieved by eliminating redundancies in the current homeland security structure. ...
• The president's budget calls for 169,154 full-time positions in the Department of Homeland Security. ...
• President Bush says homeland security must be the mission of a single agency. Currently, responsibilities for homeland security are dispersed among more than 100 different organizations, resulting in what he terms a "confusing patchwork" of government activities. The new department would also give state and local agencies one point of contact for homeland security issues. ...
• The new department would be divided into four divisions: Border and Transportation Security; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures; and Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection. ...
• Coast Guard; Customs Service; Immigration and Naturalization Service and Border Patrol; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture; the recently created Transportation Security Administration; and the Secret Service .
• While the new department would not become a domestic intelligence agency, it would analyze intelligence and "legally accessible information" from multiple sources, including: CIA; National Security Agency; FBI; Drug Enforcement Administration; Department of Energy; Customs Service; and Department of Transportation. The newly formed FBI Office of Intelligence would be an "important partner" for the new department, Bush says. ...

• Brookings Institution Project on Homeland Security.
• Assessing the Department of Homeland Security (July 15, 2002 update).
• Protecting the Homeland .
• Homeland security is now big business; costing less than $10 billion a year in the early 1990s, it had already grown to $20 billion before 9/11 and will surely cost the United States $50 billion a year well into the future. ...
• Homeland Defense, Regional Policy Forum (1/28/03) .
• Protecting the American Homeland: A Second Look at How We're Meeting the Challenge, Brookings Briefing (1/23/03) .
• Edwards Outlines his Agenda for Homeland Security, Leadership Forum (12/18/02) .
• Analyzing the President's National Security Strategy Paper, Press Briefing (10/4/02) .
• Homeland Security: The White House Plan Explained and Examined, A Brookings Forum (9/4/02) .
• Brookings Report Urges Congress to Revise President Bush's Homeland Security Proposal, Press Briefing (7/15/02) .
• Homeland Security, National Issues Forum (4/30/02).
• Assessing the Department of Homeland Security.
• Principles of Global Security.
• Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America.

• APTS Homeland Security Initiatives .
• APTS Homeland Security Filings .
• PTV and Homeland Security Background Documents .
• Security Survey Results .
• APTS is pleased to announce the formation of a Homeland Security Coalition, open only to APTS members in good standing. ... The coalition also supports targeted advocacy to ensure public television stations can participate fully in the new funding streams for Homeland Security. ...
• APTS Members: If you are not yet a member of the Homeland Security Coalition and would like to access valuable information and insight, please download the pledge form and sign up now! Please read background document Homeland Security: A Role for Public Television (APTS Member password required). ...
• Station Homeland Security Activities.
• A number of stations have already initiated contact and projects for emergency response and other homeland security applications in their own communities. ...
• Security Survey Results.
• In June 2003 public television licensees responded to a security survey co-authored with the FCC Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC). Read about the MSRC and PTV Security Survey Results.
• FCC Establishes Homeland Security Office.
• James Dailey Named Director of New Office of Homeland Security.
• On July 10, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission announced the creation of an Office of Homeland Security within the Enforcement Bureau. ... Dailey, a 31-year FCC veteran, was named Director of the new Office. The Office of Homeland Security will provide consolidated support for the homeland security and emergency preparedness responsibilities of the Commission and the Defense Commissioner (currently, Chairman Powell), the agency's Homeland Security Policy Council, and the Chief, Enforcement Bureau. ...

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• Homeland Security Policy Council.
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• (202) 418-7450 • Homeland@fcc. ...
• “With the events of September 11th, it has become imperative that the communications community come together to determine our role in ensuring homeland security. ... We will work with industry to ensure the reliability and security of our nation’s communications infrastructure. ...
• The Homeland Security Policy Council was formed in November 2001 (News Release) to Assist the Commission in:.
• The Homeland Security Policy Council is comprised of senior staff from each of the Commission’s Bureaus and is directed by the Chief of Staff for the Commission. ...
• The functions of the Homeland Security Policy Council are described in the following PowerPoint presentation. ...

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• The Department of Homeland Security is a department of the federal government of the United States concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. ...
• executive branch organizations related to "homeland security" into a single cabinet agency by 2004. ...
• It supersedes, but does not replace the Office of Homeland Security, which retains an advisory role. ...
• The Department of Homeland Security is organized into four divisions, incorporating many existing federal functions (original parent agency in parentheses): .
• Border and Transportation Security .
• Transportation Security Administration (United States Department of Transportation) .
• Office for Domestic Preparedness (United States Department of Justice) .
• National Domestic Preparedness Office (Federal Bureau of Investigation) .
• Energy Security and Assurance Program (United States Department of Energy) .
• Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (United States Department of Commerce) .
• In addition, the United States Secret Service and the United States Coast Guard report directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security. ...
• President Bush wanted the right to fire an employee within Homeland Security immediately for security reasons, for incompetence or insubordination. ...
• On March 12, the Department of Homeland Security Advisory System was created as a Presidential Directive to provide a "comprehensive and effective means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to Federal, State, and local authorities and to the American people. ...
• Department of Homeland Security .

• The Congressional Office of Brad Carson.
• Homeland Security.
• As a member of the Homeland Security Task Force, Congressman Carson addresses a wide range of issues relating to protecting all Americans and our country, including airline and travel safety, counter-terrorism, national defense, and victims’ compensation. ...
• Listed below are resources relating to Homeland Security.
• Department of Homeland Security.
• GOV is a resource provided by the Department of Homeland Security. This comprehensive website provides a wide-range of information relating to our nation’s security.
• Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security.
• The Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security provides relevant information to Oklahoma residents.
• Homeland Security.
• As a member of the Homeland Security Task Force, Congressman Carson addresses a wide range of issues relating to protecting all Americans and our country, including airline and travel safety, counter-terrorism, national defense, and victims’ compensation. ...
• Listed below are resources relating to Homeland Security.
• Department of Homeland Security.
• GOV is a resource provided by the Department of Homeland Security. This comprehensive website provides a wide-range of information relating to our nation’s security.
• Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security.

• Security Chief Ridge: 'The Task is Enormous'.
• --> Ridge Assumes Security Office Post Former Pennsylvania Gov. ... security efforts. ...
• Tom Ridge (m), director of new Office of Homeland Security. ...
• Today, he's the newly-sworn head of a Homeland Security Office which, he admits, has a big job ahead of it. ...
• "Americans should find comfort in knowing that millions of their fellow citizens are working every day to ensure our security at every level," said Ridge at his White House swearing-in. ... The job of the office of homeland security will be to identify those gaps and work to close them. ...
• " Now, Ridge takes the Homeland Security post while admitting "that I'm saddened that this job is even necessary. ...
• Tom Ridge as Ridge is sworn-in as head of the new Office of Homeland Security. ...
• • Read about the executive order establishing the Office of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council. ...

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• NOTE: This page was created to provide links to The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a reference service to our patrons. ...
• The document will give you detailed information on the organization for the Department of Homeland Security. ...
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• Homeland Security Information (via the White House) .
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• Transportation Security Administration (TSA) no call number .
• Domestic Preparedness, Office of no call number .
• National Domestic Preparedness Office (NDPO) no call number .
• Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office no call number .
• National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) .
• Science & Technology, Office of no call number .

• Small Business Homeland Security Expo 2002.
• Bond (R-MO) co-chaired a gathering in Washington, DC to showcase small businesses and their homeland security products.  More than 1,000 attendees passed through the expo, held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.
• Tom Ridge, Director, Office of Homeland Security.

• Homeland Security Advisory System Explained.
• Welcome message from Mississippi's Director of Homeland Security .
• Home | Security Efforts | Citizen Information | Preparedness Facts | Contact Us.
• Special thanks to those giving permission for the photographs used in the Homeland Security Collage. ...

• Homeland Security Research .
• EPA Home > Research & Development > Homeland Security Research .
• ORD National Homeland Security Research Center .
• Link to the EPA Strategic Plan for Homeland Security.
• Paul Gilman, Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, announced the creation of a new National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC) within the Office of Research and Development (ORD). ... Timothy Oppelt, former director of ORD’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), ensures effective design and oversight of homeland security research and provides clear lines of communication with its partners inside and outside EPA.
• The goal of the National Homeland Security Research Center, over its proposed three-year life, is to provide appropriate, effective and rapid risk assessment guidelines and technologies to help decision-makers prepare for, detect, contain, and decontaminate chemical and biological attacks directed against buildings and water treatment systems. ...
• The Water Security Research Program (protection of U. ...
• The Water Security Research Program.
• Primary emphasis of the Water Security Research Program is on water supply, treatment, and distribution infrastructures in U. ...
• A secondary emphasis of the Water Security Research Program is on wastewater treatment and collection infrastructures which include collection (sanitary and storm sewers, or combined sanitary-sewer systems) and impacts on receiving waters such as rivers, estuaries, or lakes.
• The Homeland Security Research Center, as the focus of these efforts, is providing advice, guidance and scientific expertise on homeland security issues to emergency response personnel, decision-makers, and government officials that will result in improved protection for all citizens.
• EPA Home | Privacy and Security Notice | Contact Us .

• The Illinois Homeland Security web site is the central resource for information and guidance from the State of Illinois regarding security and emergency-related issues. ...
• Homeland Security Begins at Home .
• Homeland Security Advisory System Recommmendations for Individuals provided by the American Red Cross.
• The Illinois Emergency Management Agency is recommending that county and local units of government consider implementing the following protective actions from the "County and Municipal Government Guidelines for Implementation of the State of Illinois Homeland Security Advisory System".
• The State of Illinois is committed to continuing our partnership with your office and-the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the fight against domestic terrorism and street crime. ...
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• Who's Guarding the Internet?Security Experts GatherWindows ATMs Raise Security ConcernsMicrosoft Spills its Security SecretsCybersecurity Audits UrgedSee all related items.
• Topics > Privacy & Security > Network Security > Homeland Security Office Asks for Tech Help  Feds worry that businesses are too complacent about cyberthreats. ... Department of Homeland Security is looking for a few good technology ideas.
• "When it comes to security, you must be more than partners, you must be leaders," Ridge said. ...
• That study, commissioned by the New York security services firm Guardsmark, surveyed more than 200 U. ... security professionals in early March, and 44 percent of respondents said they were not backing up important files at remote locations.
• He touted an agency Web site that collects technology ideas related to domestic security. He talked about several technology initiatives at the Department of Homeland Security, including personal radiation detectors for all border agents and gamma ray scans of shipping containers at border stations, but he said more new technology ideas are needed.
• "We want to show you that homeland security is not incompatible with your bottom line. ...
• Ridge asked the crowd for "good ideas and cost-effective solutions" for domestic security that can be copied across the U. ...
• Related Topics: Online Security, Cybercrime .

•  Homeland Heroes.
• Governor's Homeland Heroes.

• HOMELAND SECURITY.
•   A compassionate land will rise united to not only protect ourselves, not only make our homeland as secure as possible -- but to bring the evildoers to justice so that our children might live in freedom. ”  Governor Tom Ridge at Swearing-In Ceremony as Director of the Office of Homeland Security, October 8, 2001.
• ANSER Institute for Homeland Security.   Welcome to The ANSER Institute for Homeland Security. It is our belief that the 21st century will present the American people with far different national security challenges than the 20th century. ...
•   Go here to find the agency field office closest to you. ...
• Homeland Defense Journal Creates a forum for the useful flow of information between the private and public sectors that will positively influence and hasten the development of solutions to homeland security requirements. ...
• National Domestic Preparedness Office. ...
• Pesticide Safety and Site Security. The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing this Alert to all pesticide industry organizations, facilities, and handlers as a precaution during this heightened state of security awareness. This Alert highlights some general security areas that companies may want to review to ensure that appropriate measures are being implemented. EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs has developed this tailored summary of the Agency's Chemical Safety Alert entitled, "Chemical Accident Prevention: Site Security," which outlines measures to ensure secure and accident-free operations. ... The DoD Armed Forces Pest Management Board has issued a Memorandum directed to DoD Pest Management Personnel, Subject: Pesticide Storage and Pest Control Equipment Security, 25 March 2002. ...
• Security Resource Net.   The National Security Institute's (NSI's) website features industry and product news, computer alerts, travel advisories, a calendar of events, a directory of products and services, and access to an extensive virtual security library.

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• Lieberman bill would create a tech office for homeland security .
• ) wants $200 million to develop homeland security technologies under a new Science and Technology Office within a cabinet-level Homeland Security Department. ...
• ) yesterday introduced the National Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism Act of 2002 to centralize the government’s many homeland security functions. The new department would coordinate and act as a focal point for all homeland security activities as well as the government’s response to natural and manmade crises. ...
• Commerce’s Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office and the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center and National Domestic Preparedness Office also would be transferred to the new department. ...
• The bill calls for a White House Office of Combating Terrorism to assess threats, develop a national terrorism strategy and allocate antiterrorism funds. ...

• Information Awareness Office.
• The Information Awareness Office is a branch of the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency whose mission is to "imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate and transition information technologies, components and prototype, closed-loop, information systems that will counter asymmetric threats by achieving total information awareness". ...
• 2 Public protests against the Information Awareness Office.
• The IAO was once headed by John Poindexter, former National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan. ...
• The IAO's Illuminati-esque logo features the all-seeing eye of God from the Great Seal of the United States replaced with the all-seeing eye of the Information Awareness Office gazing at the Earth, and the Latin motto "scientia est potentia," meaning "knowledge is power". ...
• In the following months, as more and more information emerged about the IAO's full scope, protest among civil libertarians grew over what they claim is the IAO's disturbingly Orwellian mission, especially within the larger framework of other invasive homeland security measures and policies implemented by the Bush administration. ...
• A similar measure introduced by Senator Ron Wyden would bar the IAO from operating within the United States unless specifically authorized to do so by Congress, and would shut the IAO down entirely 60 days after passage, unless either the Pentagon prepared a report assessing the impact of IAO activities on individual privacy and civil liberties, or the President ceritifies that the program's research is vital to national security interests. ...
• Congress passed legislation in February of 2003 halting activities of the IAO, pending a Congressional report of the office's activities. Any action in the US Congress to attempt to halt a specific internal Department of Defense project is highly unusual, underscoring the grave threat to civil liberties and privacy that many lawmakers perceive in the Information Awareness Office. ...
• Public protests against the Information Awareness Office .
• " It will analyze data from the world's economy in attempt to predict political instability, threats to national security, and in general every major event in the near future. ...
• The Transparent Society by David Brin, thought-provoking, discusses various scenarios of the future, considering the spread of cheap web-cameras, increases in government security initiatives, and the possible death of encryption if quantum computing becomes reality. ...
• Combat Zones That See, or CTS, a project to link up all security cameras citywide and "track everything that moves". ...
• The Information Awareness Office's official homepage .
• Speech by John Poindexter providing an overview of the Information Awareness Office .
• Outsourcing Big Brother, a report by the Center for Public Integrity, reports that the Information Awareness Office "has hired at least eight private companies to work on the effort. ...

• Former Deputy Assistant Secretary to the President for Homeland Security.
• Office of Homeland Security.
• Department of Homeland Security.
• and Member, President's Homeland Security Advisory Committee.
• Homeland Security Transition Management Office .
• Senior Advisor for IT Security and Privacy.
• Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations.
• Assistant Director, Homeland and National Security.
• Office of Homeland Security.
• Coordinator for Homeland Security Support.
• National Security Agency.
• Senior Advisor to the Administrator for Homeland Security.
• Office of Public Health Preparedness .
• and Senior Advisor to the Secretary for National Security and Emergency Management .
• Director, Corporate Information Security.
• Office of Homeland Security.

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• Air War College Gateway to Homeland Security. ...
• The ANSER Institute For Homeland Security. ...
• The Institute is a non-profit public service research organization examining national security challenges. ...
• The Department of Homeland Security. ...
• gov/homeland/ .
• Meeting the Challenges of Establishing a New Department of Homeland Security. ...
• National Homeland Security Knowledgebase. ...
• A collection of links relating to: Federal and State Homeland Security Agencies and Organizations .
• Homeland Security Resources (publications and organizations) .
• com - Homeland Security. ...
• com/homeland/.
• TRC Focus Area - Homeland Security. ...
• com/homeland/homeland. ...
• Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations. ...
• Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations. ...

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• Homeland Security.
• Nashville began its work in homeland security in 1998 under a national initiative referred to as Domestic Preparedness. ...
• This assessment serves as the blueprint for a multi-year commitment to continuing progress in Nashville's Homeland Security program.
• Nashville's homeland security program is based on multi-departmental response and coordination. ...
• He has ordered monthly meetings of Metro's Emergency Management Council in order for us to remain vigilant in homeland security matters. ...
• Homeland Security Annual Report.
• Homeland Security Advisory System .

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