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- Supporting homeland partners
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At this writing, a tropical storm floods south Texas. A major hurricane churns west across the Caribbean with a potential landfall along the Texas coast. Wildfires in the Western United States consume nearly 75,000 acres. U.S. Navy divers assist in the recovery of victims of a bridge...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Taking the communication high ground: the case for a joint inter-agency task force for strategic communication
- [The following are views of the author and not necessarily shared by U.S. Northern Command, North American Aerospace Defense Command, or the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management.] ...The only place we can lose is if the country loses its will, and the determinant of...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- NorthCom commander: Cooperation, staff are up since Katrina
- Northern Command has improved how it responds to disasters since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005. But the fiveyear-old command still isn't hitting on all cylinders, its new commander said last week. The command has tightened links with federal and state agencies and bolstered logistical...
- Research articles 2007-06-02
- Audit agency denies support of NORAD move
- The government's audit agency disputes statements by Adm. Timothy Keating last month that it supports the move out of Cheyenne Mountain. "That's not true," said Davi D'Agostino, director of the Government Accountability Office's Defense Capabilities and Management team. At issue are Keating's comments made...
- Research articles 2007-04-05
- Operational-level analysis: DoD's strategic mobility and logistics support to the homeland security architecture
- Introduction On September 11, 2001 (9/11) the United States appeared powerless in the face of a sudden asymmetrical terrorist air attack on several key centers of national power. While the nation rallied in the wake of the attacks, most notably with heroic consequence management efforts in hardest-hit New York...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- A whisker's difference
- After a process that at times took on the tone of the Spanish Inquisition rather than a scientific inquiry, a panel of experts has declared the Preble's meadow jumping mouse a bona fide subspecies once again -- giving the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service all the political cover it needs...
- Research articles 2006-07-30
- Made-up mayhem tests defense agencies
- COLORADO SPRINGS -- Last week, terrorists exploded a radioactive bomb across the river from Detroit, blew up a couple of Michigan railcars full of deadly chemicals, hijacked a U.S. airliner to Canada and triggered a lethal outbreak of plague in Mexico, just as another hurricane was slamming into New Orleans....
- Research articles 2006-05-16
- North American defense and security after 9/11
- Canada and the United States fought as partners in World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Operation Desert Storm, the Balkans, and most recently in Afghanistan. Our mutual participation in these conflicts and membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO focused on joint and combined operations in overseas...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Ex-NORAD chief says he wasn't told of Atta
- The former head of the joint U.S.-Canadian defense of North American airspace said Friday that he was unaware the military had identified Mohamed Atta as part of a terrorist cell in Brooklyn a year before the Sept. 11 attacks. "All I know is, they never said anything...
- Research articles 2005-08-27
- USNorthCom
- The Department of Defense established U.S. Northern Command in 2002 to consolidate, under a single unified command, existing missions that were previously executed by other military organizations. USNORTHCOM's mission is homeland defense and civil support, specifically: * Conduct operations to deter, prevent, and defeat threats and aggression aimed at...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Communication channels will prevent future chaos, agencies tell 9/11 panel.(Slants & Trends)
- Editor's note: News out of Washington, D.C., over the past month has underscored the state of U.S. preparedness for a terrorist attack--while much progress has been made, policymakers and responders still struggle with a learning curve. The following three articles explore preparedness from the perspective of...
- Research articles 2004-06-29
- Enabling, not inhibiting
- When the space shuttle Columbia crashed on Feb. 1, 2003, 15 government and civilian agencies had to find ways to exchange information to accommodate one of the most massive recovery and investigation efforts in history. Within 90 minutes, Northern Command provided a "protected information environment" linking agencies...
- Research articles 2004-06-17
- U.S. Northern Command actively enlisting partners.
- The U.S. Northern Command--established in 2002 to prevent a repeat of 9/11--is seeking assistance from a wide range of organizations to help it protect the United States, its territories and interests, said Army Col. Stover James, the organization's director of interagency coordination. Among...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Federal Agencies Impose No-Fly Zones for Savannah, Ga., G-8 Summit.
- By Michael Fabey, Savannah Morning News, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 5--For about an hour, Savannah pilot Robert J. Stewart listened Monday night as fighter pilots and brass from the North American Aerospace Defense Command and other federal agencies described the...
- Research articles 2004-05-05
- U.S. safety system tested
- When a nuclear device is smuggled into Texas and a hurricane bears down on the Texas coast during the next week, the only television station carrying the story will be WNN. That's the fake network set up by the military for an exercise in which dozens of...
- Research articles 2004-02-19
- International Matchmaking and Business Partnering
- In recent decades, industrialized countries have developed a number of direct instruments to help their national companies become active in the developing world. In matchmaking and similar business-partnering programmes, the sponsoring organization generally provides technical or financial assistance to private-sector partners in order to foster cooperation and help the...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Connect
- Tracking St. Nick/ NORAD WEB SITE FOLLOWS ELF If a few days worth of out-of-school escapades has given you pause to consider moving your kids from the "nice" to the "naughty" column of Santa's list, tell them to turn off "Quake III Arena" and take a look...
- Research articles 1999-12-24
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- NORAD to sponsor multi-agency, bi-lateral exercise.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-3 June 2002-US DOD: NORAD to sponsor multi-agency, bi-lateral exercise C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06042002 On June 4, 2002, the North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD will sponsor a multi-agency, bi-national exercise, Amalgam Virgo 02, involving an...
- Research articles 2002-06-03
- NorthCom gets new chief
- If terrorists think America's shoreline is the nation's most vulnerable place, they're wrong, the new leader of the nation's homeland defense agency said Friday after taking command. "Believe me, we have a formidable, layered defense in place -- active and effective -- right now," Navy Adm. Timothy...
- Research articles 2004-11-06
- Canada, US fighters intercept Russian bombers on Arctic border
- OTTAWA AFP — Canada and US fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers late Thursday that skimmed the North American continent's northern frontier during a Russian training exercise, defense officials said. The North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD launched three pairs of fighters from northern bases "in response to Russian aircraft...
- Research articles 2006-09-30
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