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National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson	Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks.
National Defense August 2009 Stew Magnuson	No Further Funding for DHS Shoulder-Fired Missile Program The Obama administration in its 2010 budget has not requested further funding to test a controversial program to protect commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
National Defense March 2007 Breanne Wagner	DHS Expands Search for Anti-Missile Technology The Department of Homeland Security is proposing an unmanned aerial vehicle defense system designed to fly above airports and protect commercial aircraft against shoulder-fired missiles.
National Defense December 2003 Sandra I. Erwin	Anti-Missile Program for Airliners on a Fast Track Under pressure from Congress to deploy anti-missile systems rapidly on commercial airliners, the Department of Homeland Security is expected to award multiple contracts by year's end.
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Aircraft Missile Defense: The Debate Continues With up to a million man-portable missiles produced since the 1970s, questions remain as to how much should be done to protect U.S. commercial airliners.
National Defense November 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Nuclear Detectors Tested in Nevada Desert The newly formed Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) inherited the project, dedicated to stopping a nuclear attack on U.S. soil, from the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	DHS Technology Budget To Exceed $1B in 2005 An array of emerging technologies is the key to defending the United States from its enemies, according to Charles E. McQueary, undersecretary of homeland security for science and technology.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Bad News All Around for DHS Cargo Technology Programs The Department of Homeland Security's advanced radiation detection portal monitor program continues to struggle.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Congress Still Undecided on How to Protect Airliners from Missiles Tests of a system designed to protect commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles have showed some improved performance in areas such as maintenance. But the system still falls short of goals acceptable to airlines.
National Defense February 2007 Stew Magnuson	DHS Technology Chief to Focus on Explosives Threat The Pentagon will have some help in its ongoing effort to defeat improvised explosive devices if Jay Cohen, director of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, gets his way.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John McHale	Homeland Security Budget and Market Show Steady Growth Nearly half a decade old, the U.S. DHS is showing moderate growth in its budget request, while funding for research and development focuses on more solutions for today than for programs 20 years in the future.
National Defense March 2007	Security Beat Coast Guard Ponders Future, Delivers New Mission Statement... Border Patrol Reaching Out to Fill 6,000 Slots... etc.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports.
National Defense February 2009 Stew Magnuson	DHS Leaders Inherit Litany of Procurement Woes There is a new administration and a new Congress. But will it be a new day for the way the Department of Homeland Security acquires technology?
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson	DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies.
National Defense December 2006 Stew Magnuson	Homeland Security Tussles with GAO Over Radiation Portals A DHS official said he was confident that the next generation of portals designed to find nuclear materials in shipping containers will work despite a withering GAO report questioning performance data and their high price tags.
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2008 Erik Sofge	Homeland Adds On-the-Go Radioactive Hunter to Garage A modified Chevy Suburban XL that can detect the presence of radioactive material was delivered to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by Raytheon last month.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	DHS' Nuclear Detection Efforts Continue on Smaller Scale The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office could never get the technology to work well enough, and estimated costs to deploy the portals swelled, so after six years with nothing to show for the millions spent, the ax fell.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Courtney E. Howard	BAE Systems Applies Military Technology to Commercial Airliner Defense System The JetEye infrared missile-beating countermeasure system, which takes advantage of military-derived technologies, has entered the third phase of the U.S. DHS counter-man-portable air defense systems program.
National Defense September 2011 Stew Magnuson	Radiation Detection Portal Program Comes to an End One of the Department of Homeland Security's most troubled technology development programs came to an end in July, when the Advanced Spectrographic Portals, which were designed to ferret out nuclear material at ports, was terminated.
National Defense January 2006 Stew Magnuson	Plan to Protect U.S. Ports Homes In on Contraband The challenge facing the DHS, importers and the shipping industry is to prevent weapons of mass destruction, would-be illegal immigrants and contraband from entering U.S. ports -- including overland traffic from Canada and Mexico -- without disrupting the flow of goods.
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson	Defense, Law-Enforcement Agencies Seek Advanced Surveillance Tools Suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and the threats of chemical or biological weapons are creating increased demand for cutting edge technologies that can detect or survey potential hazards from stand-off distances.
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson	Public Still in the Dark When it Comes to Dirty Bomb Threat The federal government has come up short in public information campaigns to educate the public on what to do in the event of a radiation attack
National Defense November 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Will Capitol Hill Keep Funding Missile Defense for Airliners? An effort to protect commercial aircraft against shoulder-fired missiles will face a critical moment in January, when Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to continue funding development of the system.
BusinessWeek March 27, 2006 Lorraine Woellert	Hesitation At Homeland Security A high-tech missile defense for passenger jets now exists, but plans to install it don't.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Feds Begin to Tackle the Vexing Problem of How to Defeat Homemade Bombs Congress' attention remains focused on preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil, but improvised explosive devices do not receive the same attention as the chemical, biological or nuclear threats.
National Defense September 2011 Eric Beidel	Homeland Security Market 'Vibrant' Despite Budget Concerns The abundance of small, medium and large firms vying for DHS contracts is creating healthy competition.
National Defense February 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Beat Federal government gets 'D' in cyber-security... DHS awards multiple security contracts... Companies selected for air defense program... etc.
Reason March 2005 Poole & Harper	Transportation Security Aggravation Debating the balance between privacy and safety in a post-9/11 aviation industry.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John McHale	DHS turns to high tech to control borders Border agents cannot possibly check every car or every traveler. So U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials are relying on new technologies -- such as those noted here -- to tighten the country's borders.
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson	7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.
National Defense November 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Security Beat Local Responders Linked With Coast Guard Units... Russian Horror Highlights U.S. School Security... Public Would Ignore Authorities in Terror Event... Fort Detrick Begins Bio-Defense Additions... etc.
National Defense April 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Beat The biggest challenge facing the maritime transportation industry is ensuring that legitimate cargo is not needlessly delayed as new security measures are implemented.
National Defense December 2004 Pappalardo & Tiron	Security Beat New York City police are not just patrolling the five boroughs in search of terrorist cells. They also have deployed investigators around the world, according to one of the city's top counter-terrorism officials.
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Paul Magnusson	The Hard Lesson Of Madrid There are too many holes in the safety net. Here's what the U.S. still needs to do
Popular Mechanics June 2006 Brad Reagan	Public Defenders Protecting America's cities, ports, borders and airports requires new technology and new tactics.
National Defense September 2010 Stew Magnuson	DHS Technology Chief to Reduce Number of Programs Eight months after taking over the division, Tara O'Toole's conclusion is that there are too many technologies in the pipeline, with most of them never reaching the hands of the first responders in the field who need them.
National Defense March 2007 Stew Magnuson	Congress, DHS Turn Their Attention to Guarding Ground Transportation In the wake of 9/11, upgrading aviation security received justifiable attention. Last year, maritime security was addressed in the SAFE Port Act. Now, there is consensus in Congress that 2007 will be surface transportation's turn.
National Defense September 2009 Katie Breitbach	International Gateway Airports Proposed for Small Aircraft Three Department of Homeland Security agencies are collaborating on a proposal to have small aircraft entering the United States land at so-called "gateway airports" so they can be inspected before traveling to large cities.
National Defense May 2004 Kennedy & Tiron	Securitybeat U.S. Beefs Up Security On Railway Systems... Budget Amendment Good News for DHS... Air Force Adopts Biometrics Security Systems... etc.
National Defense June 2004 Pappalardo & Erwin	Security Beat Law enforcement agencies, using grant money from the federal government, increasingly are investing in robots to prepare for domestic threats.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John McHale	Aircraft countermeasure, Coast Guard DeepWater see big budget increases The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2006 budget request has significant increases for commercial aircraft countermeasures technology and the U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Deepwater System program.
National Defense March 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Beat The Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services will share $275 million to expand the BioWatch program, improve a nationwide bio threat reporting system and upgrade food and animal inspections.
Reason March 2006 Veronique de Rugy	Are We Ready for the Next 9/11? The sorry state -- and stunning waste -- of homeland security spending.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006	Nine Cautionary Tales If terrorists decide to strike again, are we prepared? Not really, as these scenarios of extremism make clear: 1. Bomb in a Box... 2. Electroshock... 3. Toxic Train Wreck... 4. Crude Attack... 5. Agro-Armageddon... etc.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Suitcase Bombs: Separating Fact From Fiction As if there weren't enough things to worry about, add the possibility of terrorists or a rogue nation launching a cruise missile from a commercial ship at a U.S. city to the list... Health Role For Homeland Security Department Debated... etc.
National Defense February 2006 Stew Magnuson	Smart Fence, Not Stupid Fence, Says Chertoff Security Beat: Smart Fences for Border Control... DHS Scraps Flight List Plan... Coast Guard to Deploy UAV... N.J. Beefs Up Chemical Plant Security... FEMA Struggled to Track Commodities... etc.
National Defense August 2006 Stew Magnuson	Former staffer becomes leading DHS critic Former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin has emerged in recent months as one of the department's leading critics, and one with some credibility.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller	DHS Heads-up Initiative to Develop Revolutionary Homeland Security Technologies The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington is asking industry for revolutionary technologies to improve homeland security missions and operations.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2005 Rich Smith	Raytheon: Defense on the Cheap Defense contractor aims to make airplanes safe. Raytheon's argument does indeed seem defensible, and its system, economical.