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  • IT Issues on Homeland Security and Defense
    2017
    Co-Authors: Kangbin Yim, IL SUN YOU
    Abstract:

    This paper surveys remarkable incidents that were related to the Homeland Security and Defense such as terrors, disasters and cyber-attacks and overviews the existing projects given by the department of Homeland Security and Defense of the US government. Through the overview, technological foundations in the projects are extracted and discussed. Additionally, this paper introduces a common framework, as an example, supporting the delivery service for RFID Tracking, Sensor Network, Video Surveillance and Image Screening, which are the major technological foundations in the Homeland Security and Defense. As providing an outline of the technological aspects of the Homeland Security and Defense, this paper is expected a reference for initiators of the related projects.

  • ARES - IT issues on Homeland Security and defense
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011
    Co-Authors: Kangbin Yim, IL SUN YOU
    Abstract:

    This paper surveys remarkable incidents that were related to the Homeland Security and Defense such as terrors, disasters and cyber-attacks and overviews the existing projects given by the department of Homeland Security and Defense of the US government. Through the overview, technological foundations in the projects are extracted and discussed. Additionally, this paper introduces a common framework, as an example, supporting the delivery service for RFID Tracking, Sensor Network, Video Surveillance and Image Screening, which are the major technological foundations in the Homeland Security and Defense. As providing an outline of the technological aspects of the Homeland Security and Defense, this paper is expected a reference for initiators of the related projects.

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  • IT Issues on Homeland Security and Defense
    2017
    Co-Authors: Kangbin Yim, IL SUN YOU
    Abstract:

    This paper surveys remarkable incidents that were related to the Homeland Security and Defense such as terrors, disasters and cyber-attacks and overviews the existing projects given by the department of Homeland Security and Defense of the US government. Through the overview, technological foundations in the projects are extracted and discussed. Additionally, this paper introduces a common framework, as an example, supporting the delivery service for RFID Tracking, Sensor Network, Video Surveillance and Image Screening, which are the major technological foundations in the Homeland Security and Defense. As providing an outline of the technological aspects of the Homeland Security and Defense, this paper is expected a reference for initiators of the related projects.

  • ARES - IT issues on Homeland Security and defense
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011
    Co-Authors: Kangbin Yim, IL SUN YOU
    Abstract:

    This paper surveys remarkable incidents that were related to the Homeland Security and Defense such as terrors, disasters and cyber-attacks and overviews the existing projects given by the department of Homeland Security and Defense of the US government. Through the overview, technological foundations in the projects are extracted and discussed. Additionally, this paper introduces a common framework, as an example, supporting the delivery service for RFID Tracking, Sensor Network, Video Surveillance and Image Screening, which are the major technological foundations in the Homeland Security and Defense. As providing an outline of the technological aspects of the Homeland Security and Defense, this paper is expected a reference for initiators of the related projects.

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  • Waiting for Homeland Security Theory
    Homeland Security Affairs, 2012
    Co-Authors: Christopher Bellavita
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    Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.- Herman Hesse, attributed to "Albertus Secundus"1ACT 1A country road.A wooden table.A small whiteboard.Gloaming.Scene 1 - There Is Nothing To Be DoneThe initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it -- Karl PopperCHARLES: Everyone should be their own Homeland Security theorist.2GAILE: Why in heaven's name would you wish that?BARCLAY: It would be pure chaos.JACQUES: We already have chaos. At least intellectual chaos. Homeland Security has no theoretical center of gravity, no overall strategy for developing its theoretical foundations.GAILE: (agreeing) It's a mishmash of loosely connected ideas, missions, and activities.JACQUES: Observing intellectual activity in Homeland Security is like watching young children playing soccer, running in packs to follow the ball. We can do better.BARCLAY: (abstractly) I recall reading something that called Homeland Security an anemic policy enterprise.3 So many people try to do so many things under the same umbrella. There is no central purpose to Homeland Security. One person called it an inconsistent hash.4CHARLES: (reflectively) Why do we even care whether this activity we credulously call Homeland Security has its own theoretical framework? What would theory do for us as academics or for our students or practitioners?JACQUES: (earnestly) I've been in this field since 9/11, and I believe we've just begun to build a discipline. I don't want to have wasted the past decade on something that just dissolves. And it will, if we don't bring conceptual precision to our work. If Homeland Security is ever to be academically respectable, it has to offer more than rhetoric and anecdotes. As thinkers who care about this field and who are invested in it, we have a responsibility to provide rigorous conceptual foundations for what we teach.BARCLAY: (approvingly) Yes. Before we can develop a Homeland Security research agenda, we need to ground the knowledge we create. Theory - whether derived deductively or inductively - can help us do that.CHARLES: I do not disagree with what you are saying.GAILE: (annoyed) Does that mean you agree with us? Because if you do, the idea of encouraging everyone to be their own theorist is silly. It's like letting anyone be a dentist.CHARLES: (sharply) Allow me some credit, please. I've thought at length about this; my thesis is not meant merely to be provocative. And your dentist analogy is fallacious. Homeland Security is many things, but nothing having to do with teeth.GAILE: (gruffly) You know what I mean. What you propose....CHARLES: (insistently) No. I do not know what you mean, and that's a central part of the difficulty trying to develop Homeland Security theory. I did not come to my position casually. A few years ago I started thinking about this, wondering how to bring conceptual order to the Homeland Security mess. And I'm not talking about what practitioners do day to day, although that may also be messy. I'm talking about what we do - in the classrooms and in our research - when we talk and write about Homeland Security. I thought we needed to start with theory, and I worked to create one.BARCLAY: (crisply) One? One theory of Homeland Security?CHARLES: Yes, I thought I'd start with grand theory.5 I wanted something that organized all Homeland Security ideas. I wanted an overarching perspective I could use to structure the way I teach Homeland Security.BARCLAY: How did that go? …

  • Changing Homeland Security: In 2010, Was Homeland Security Useful?
    Homeland Security Affairs, 2011
    Co-Authors: Christopher Bellavita
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    What do the concept of Homeland Security and the intellectual program surrounding that concept actually contribute to the nation's Security?Since 2004 I have asked each new Homeland Security class at the Naval Postgraduate School what is working in Homeland Security and what needs to be improved. I ask the questions again eighteen months later when they are about to graduate.Over the years, the answers to both questions - and at both times - tend to constellate around the same issues:* Collaboration -- among people, agencies, disciplines, jurisdictions and increasingly, nations;* Information sharing and intelligence;* Preventing terrorism - arising from international and domestic sources;* Preparedness - in its many guises, including most recently "resilience";* Transportation Security - aviation, rail, other public transportation;* Border control - northern, southern and coastal;* Illegal immigration;* Technology - its role in Homeland Security; what problems it solves and creates;* Risk management - to include risk assessment and risk informed decision-making;* Resources - where they come from, how they are allocated, how they are used to sustain progress;* Critical infrastructure protection - the interface between public and private sectors;* Leadership - at all levels in the Homeland Security enterprise.Our master's degree participants - all of whom work in a Homeland Security-related public safety discipline - believe the nation is continuously improving its ability to prevent attacks, respond to disasters, and recover from a variety of incidents. They also believe we have much more work to do, work that will never be completed.As I reviewed what happened in the Homeland Security enterprise during 2010, and compared that with previous "Year in Review" articles, I saw something similar to what our master's participants observed. 1 Most of the issues that helped to define Homeland Security have remained fairly consistent over the past five years:* The meaning of Homeland Security,* The nature of the threat,* Surprise (anticipating and responding to), and* The strategic approaches to achieving the various Homeland Security missions.Those concerns - along with the other issues noted above - outline what I consider to be the enduring problems in Homeland Security. The dynamic contours of the Homeland Security enterprise are shaped largely by the shifting attention and neglect these issues receive. 2I have little doubt we are better prepared as a nation to prevent attacks and respond to disasters than we were on September 10, 2001. But it seems to me most of that progress has more to do with the work of Homeland Security artisans - practitioners skilled in both the practice and theory of what they do - than Homeland Security intellectuals. 3Public and private sector professionals, exercising the knowledge and skills they earned through discipline-specific training, education, and experience make the nation safer and more secure than it was a decade ago.It is less apparent to me what value "Homeland Security" as a distinct - albeit still emerging - body of knowledge or discipline has contributed to that progress.If Homeland Security is to become a useful academic and professional discipline, I think it has to demonstrate how looking at enduring problems through a Homeland Security framework adds significant value not provided by other disciplines. If it is unable to demonstrate value, Homeland Security may devolve into a legacy concept, like the now largely forgotten idea of civil defense. 4Homeland Security as a DisciplineThe idea of Homeland Security as a distinct discipline took root initially because of the federal government's reaction to September 11, 2001. The Homeland Security concept was premised on the assumption that public safety disciplines operated too much in isolation from each other. …

  • Changing Homeland Security: What is Homeland Security?
    Homeland Security Affairs, 2008
    Co-Authors: Christopher Bellavita
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    The United States, through a concerted national effort that galvanizes the strengths and capabilities of Federal, State, local, and Tribal governments; the private and non-profit sectors; and regions, communities, and individual citizens ? along with our partners in the international community ? will work to achieve a secure Homeland that sustains our way of life as a free, prosperous, and welcoming America.? Homeland Security Vision, 2007 National Strategy 1The vision announced six years after the September 11, 2001 attacks is another effort to clarify why the nation engages in the activity called Homeland Security. It draws a picture of everyone working together to ensure the United States remains a free, wealthy, and friendly nation. The vision suggests both the nobility of our hopes and the innocence of an America untainted by globalism's realpolitik.One still hears the question asked, "What is Homeland Security?" Is it a program, an objective, a discipline, an agency, an administrative activity, another word for emergency management? Is it about terrorism? All hazards? Something completely different? 2Even though there is no explicit agreement about the definition, this does not prevent people from having long and occasionally contentious conversations about the details of Homeland Security. It is as if we (the people who care about Homeland Security) carry around a preferred definition in whatever part of the brain holds definitions. We talk about Homeland Security and only rarely mention what that word means. If words do matter, if we are ever to reach the state envisioned in the Strategy, do we need to know what Homeland Security is?There are at least seven defensible definitions of Homeland Security. 3 These definitions ? and there may be more than seven ? are "ideal types" (as that phrase was used by Max Weber) 4 and are based on assertions about what Homeland Security emphasizes or ought to emphasize. In a metaphorical sense, each definition represents a set of interests that claims a niche in the Homeland Security ecosystem. As in a biological system, these semantic entities struggle for resources to sustain themselves, to grow, and to reproduce their point of view within the rest of the ecosystem. As the Homeland Security ecosystem continues to evolve and interact with its environment, one can expect variation on particular aspects of the definitions, selection by others of the pieces of the definition that confer the most survival value, and reproduction elsewhere in the ecosystem of particular Homeland Security definitions. 5The definitions discussed in this paper draw attention to:1. Terrorism. Homeland Security is a concerted national effort by federal, state and local governments, by the private sector, and by individuals to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur.2. All Hazards. Homeland Security is a concerted national effort to prevent and disrupt terrorist attacks, protect against man-made and natural hazards, and respond to and recover from incidents that do occur.3. Terrorism and Catastrophes. Homeland Security is what the Department of Homeland Security ? supported by other federal agencies ? does to prevent, respond to, and recover from terrorist and catastrophic events that affect the Security of the United States.4. Jurisdictional Hazards. Homeland Security means something different in each jurisdiction. It is a locally-directed effort to prevent and prepare for incidents most likely to threaten the safety and Security of its citizens.5. Meta Hazards. Homeland Security is a national effort to prevent or mitigate any social trend or threat that can disrupt the long-term stability of the American way of life.6. National Security. Homeland Security is an element of national Security that works with the other instruments of national power to protect the sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical infrastructure of the United States against threats and aggression. …

  • changing Homeland Security what is Homeland Security
    Homeland Security Affairs, 2008
    Co-Authors: Christopher Bellavita
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    This report published in the June 2008 edition of the Homeland Security Affairs Journal, attempts to address the question of what exactly is Homeland Security and what exactly do these words mean? The report mentions that even now there is not exact definition of Homeland Security. Furthermore, the report presents seven defensible definitions of Homeland Security. These definitions -- and there may be more than seven -- are ideal types (as that phrase was used by Max Weber) and are based on assertions about what Homeland Security emphasizes or ought to emphasize. In a metaphorical sense, each definition represents a set of interests that claims a niche in the Homeland Security ecosystem. As in a biological system, these semantic entities struggle for resources to sustain themselves, to grow, and to reproduce their point of view within the rest of the ecosystem. As the Homeland Security ecosystem continues to evolve and interact with its environment, one can expect variation on particular aspects of the definitions, selection by others of the pieces of the definition that confer the most survival value, and reproduction elsewhere in the ecosystem of particular Homeland Security definitions. More specifically, the definitions include: Terrorism, All hazards, Terrorism and Catastrophes, Jurisdictional Hazards, Meta Hazards, National Security and Security ''ber Alles. Finally, the report argues that the absence of agreement can be seen as grist for the continued evolution of Homeland Security as a practice and as an idea. Even if people did agree to define Homeland Security with a single voice, there would still be the matter of behavior. What people, organizations, and jurisdictions do under the Homeland Security banner is as instructive as how they define the term.

  • Changing Homeland Security: Ten Essential Homeland Security Books
    Homeland Security Affairs, 2007
    Co-Authors: Christopher Bellavita
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    This article presents what I consider to be ten essential Homeland Security books. The list is personal and provisional. The discipline is too new to have a canon. We need to continuously examine what is signal and what is background noise in Homeland Security's academic environment.Much has been written about Homeland Security. A lot more is in the publishing pipeline. My list includes books I find myself returning to as I seek to understand contemporary Homeland Security events. Beyond personal interest, I believe they form a foundation for a growing understanding of the parameters of what it means to study Homeland Security as a professional discipline. Other books - and important articles - could be added, but ten is sufficient to start.These books are:* The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: 9/11 Commission Report (2004)* The National Strategy for Homeland Security (2002)* After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era (2003)* Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (2004)* America the Vulnerable: How Our Government is Failing to Protect Us From Terrorism (2004)* Homeland Security: A Complete Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Surviving Terrorism (2005)* Catastrophe Preparation and Prevention for Law Enforcement Professionals (2008)* Trapped in the War on Terror (2006)* Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy; Strengthening Ourselves (2006)* The Declaration of Independence (1776), The Articles of Confederation (1777), and The Constitution of the United States of America (1787)Taken together, these works outline a broad historical narrative about Homeland Security. We were attacked. We quickly developed a strategy to make sure we prevented future attacks. We tried to come to terms with what happened to us as a nation. Next, textbooks and workbooks aiming to systematize Homeland Security ideas started to appear. Homeland Security took the first steps toward becoming institutionalized. Then came the criticism of how we perceived the enemy and what we were doing - or not doing - to protect the Homeland. Recently, some people maintain we have significantly overreacted to the threat and are now "trapped" in a War on Terror that accomplishes little, wastes resources and threatens our national values. Others urge government to focus resources on threats that have the potential to cause us the greatest damage and to encourage communities to become resilient. The American people must be willing to accept some level of risk. While there is a threat of attack by terrorists, there is a bigger danger that how we react will do more damage than the attack. As one of the authors cited later in this essay wrote: "Instead of surrendering our liberties in the name of Security, we must embrace liberty as the source and sustenance of our Security." Homeland Security gets better through the open exchange of competing and contrasting ideas. Keeping this essential debate open and free helps ensure we will remain an "Unconquerable Nation."The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: 9/11 Commission Report 1Not many government reports are literary enough to be nominated for the National Book Award. The 9/11 Report was. 2 The Report chronicles the events that led to a perceived need for something called Homeland Security. It provides an analysis of why we were attacked and why the attack succeeded. It outlines what the nation needs to do to reduce the chances that we will be unprepared for another attack. It provides continually relevant benchmarks against which to assess the status of efforts to protect the nation from terrorism.The book begins with a prosaically clinical retelling of what happened on a day that "dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the Eastern United States. …

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  • Policing for Homeland Security: Policy & Research
    Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2009
    Co-Authors: Willard M. Oliver
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    Since the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, Federal, State and local governments have increasingly moved toward establishing Homeland Security as an institutional response to not only the threat of future terrorist attacks, but as a means of preparing and responding to natural disasters. Every plan at every level has stated that a critical element to any Homeland Security program is the local police and sheriff's departments. What specifically the police are to do under the concepts of Homeland Security has been unclear and poorly communicated and departments across the country have responded very differently from one another. To date, research in the area of Policing and Homeland Security has been lacking. This article addresses that deficiency, introduces the collection of research articles contained within this special issue of Criminal Justice Policy Review, and establishes an agenda for future research.

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  • Organizing for Homeland Security: The Homeland Security Council Reconsidered
    2008
    Co-Authors: Harold C. Relyea
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    Abstract : In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush established the Office of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council (HSC). In his June 2002 proposal for a Department of Homeland Security, President Bush appeared to anticipate the continued operation of both of these entities. However, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which mandated the new department, statutorily rechartered the HSC as an agency within the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Thereafter, the HSC disappeared from the public record, and its status today remains uncertain. Recently, some have called for the merger of the HSC with the National Security Council.

  • Homeland Security: The Presidential Coordination Office
    2002
    Co-Authors: Harold C. Relyea
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    Abstract : Responding to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush, among other actions, announced in his September 20 address to a joint session of Congress, his intention to create an Office of Homeland Security (OHS), headed by a director who would have Cabinet rank and would report directly to the President. OHS, as subsequently chartered with E.O. 13228 of October 8, 2001, is an agency of the Executive Office of the President. The success of this office as a coordinator of federal preparations and response to terrorism, including the development of a comprehensive National Strategy for Homeland Security, may be guided by past experience with similar such entities. This report reviews past experience principally with the Office of War Mobilization and its successor, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion and its significance for OHS, as well as the administrative development of the new agency. That OHS was not altogether successful in its efforts at Homeland Security leadership may have prompted the President to propose the creation of a Department of Homeland Security in June 2002. However, during the course of the establishment of the department, attempts to replace or recharter OHS legislatively were not successful. The establishment of the new department and the new Homeland Security Council diminished the role of OHS by assuming most of its functions. Although a presidential assistant for Homeland Security may be retained in the White House, the continued need for OHS waned in 2003, and the agency disappeared from the President's FY2005 budget. This report is no longer being updated. CRS Report RL31493, Homeland Security: Department Organization and management Legislative Phase, assesses the development and enactment of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

  • Homeland Security and information
    Government Information Quarterly, 2002
    Co-Authors: Harold C. Relyea
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    Abstract A new phrase—“Homeland Security”—has come into popular parlance in the aftermath of recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As an evolving concept, it draws definition from, and has implications for, various policy areas and actions. This introductory essay reviews the development of two similar policy concepts— national Security and internal Security —before exploring Homeland Security, and the significance of each for information policy and practice.