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- Safe harbor? DHS will miss deadline to set up port security hubs.(Port Security)(Department of Homeland Security)
- [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Every morning, representatives of the Coast Guard, Department of Justice and Customs and Border Protection gather in a meeting room in a secure port facility here to plan the day's operations. Joining them at the table...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Mines and underwater IEDS in U.S. ports and waterways: context, threats, challenges, and solutions
- A broad spectrum of nontraditional and asymmetric threats challenges U.S. maritime homeland security. (1) The smuggling of drugs, arms, and people; vesselborne improvised explosive devices, like that used by terrorists against the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole in October 2002; proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-explosive weapons of mass...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Biometrics Help Identify, Apprehend and Deter Illegal Migrants
- To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORSContact: US-VISIT Public Affairs, +1-202-298-5200; or U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs, +1-202-372-4620 WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS announced today that in the first year of operation, its biometrics-at-sea program has been a success and accomplished its intended goals. In its first...
- Research articles 2007-11-14
- License to boat? Government lacks clear plans to ID small vessels used as terrorist weapons.(PORT SECURITY)(identify)
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Small boats have been used by terrorists to carry out attacks around the world and they are likely to be employed as weapons in U.S. waterways, the government has recently warned. Officials believe small vessels--defined as those less than 300...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Small boats seen as a terror threat
- WASHINGTON -- The nation's 17 million small boats are facing increased scrutiny from the Homeland Security Department, which fears they could be used in a nuclear attack or a lethal explosion at a U.S. port. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said this month that he had...
- Research articles 2007-10-31
- Fleet Week to dock in San Francisco
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Fleet Week is back, and it won't just be the Navy's Blue Angels gliding beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Besides the Blue Angels, other teams including Team Oracle and the Air Force's F-16 Demonstration Team will be on hand. Seven vessels...
- Research articles 2007-10-04
- Blue Angels highlight Fleet Week in S.F.
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Fleet Week is back, and it won't just be the Navy's Blue Angels gliding beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Besides the Blue Angels, other teams including Team Oracle and the Air Force's F-16 Demonstration Team will be on hand. And seven vessels will parade...
- Research articles 2007-10-03
- Ships sail for Fleet Week
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Fleet Week is back, and it won't just be the Blue Angels gliding beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Besides the Navy planes, other teams including Team Oracle and the Air Force's F-16 Demonstration Team will be on hand. And seven vessels...
- Research articles 2007-10-03
- Presidential Hopefuls Avoid Specifics As Security Issues Drive Campaigns
- Defense and homeland security will dominate the 2008 presidential campaigns, rivaling health care and a handful of other domestic topics as the central issues in the intense, prolonged battle for the White House. But don't expect the candidates to get into the nitty-gritty areas of programs and spending - at...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Caribbean port security challenges remain.(PORTSECURITY)
- The Caribbean Basin is critical important to the U.S. economy. Caribbean ports provide transshipment points for cargo containers and are major cruise ship destinations, serving nearly 7 milion North American cruise passengers in 2006. Additionally, Trinidad and Tobago, for example, supplies 70% of the imported Liquefied...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- 2005-2006 U.S. Maritime Legislative Developments
- I INTRODUCTION Although the 109th Congress1 was criticized in the national press as a "do nothing" Congress,2 it was productive in the maritime arena enacting into law the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act or 2006 commonly referred to as the SAFE Port Act,3 the Coast Guard and Maritime...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Keeping America Safe From Attack
- President Bush Discusses Intelligence Showing The Importance Of Defeating Al Qaeda In Iraq NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Today, President Bush Delivered The Commencement Address At The U.S. Coast Guard Academy In New London, Connecticut. The President congratulated graduates and their families, praised the Coast Guard's excellence in times of...
- Research articles 2007-05-23
- Are Alaska ports safe? Sweeping legislation balances need for protection, while keeping commerce flowing
- The Safe Accountability For Every Port Act (SAFE act, 2006)--now a multifaceted sweeping port-security legislation as of October 2006-will impact Alaska ports and customers on many levels. The object of the SAFE Act is to maintain a "secure state" post-Sept.11, 2001, but not a "security state," providing enhanced border...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Aegis Industries, Inc. Very Pleased with Advisory Board Addition.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 March 2007-WallStreetAnalystReport.com: Aegis Industries, Inc. Very Pleased with Advisory Board AdditionC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28032007 Stocks To Watch: Aegis Industries, Inc. (OTCBB: AGIN), Tarrant Apparel Group (Nasdaq: TAGS). United Fuel & Energy Corporation (OTCBB: NWACQ), Phazar Corp. (Nasdaq:...
- Research articles 2007-03-28
- Biometrics Helping to Identify and Apprehend Immigration Violators in the Mona Passage
- To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORSContact: US-VISIT Public Affairs, +1-202-298-5200 WASHINGTON, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS announced today initial results of a biometric identification pilot program between US-VISIT and the U.S. Coast Guard to target illegal migration in the Mona Passage, a body of water between the...
- Research articles 2007-03-08
- Deepwater information technology at risk, says IG.(SECURITY BEAT: Homeland Defense Briefs)
- While the Coast Guard's ongoing problems with its new fleet of ships and aircraft have been well documented, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general warned that the service's information technology backbone may also be headed for rough seas. Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence,...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Chairman Hails Approval of Port Security Legislation
- U.S. House of Representatives Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Chairman Frank A. LoBiundo (R-N.J.) recently applauded passage of U.R. 4954 the Security and Accountability for Every SAFE Port Act of 2006. According to LoBiondo. H.R. 4954 is a comprehensive, bipartisan bill that builds on existing initiathes to improve port...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Retired U.S. Military Commanders Back Israel's Response to Hezbollah Terrorism
- WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Over 50 retired top commanders of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard today issued a joint statement in strong support of Israel's military response to Hezbollah terrorism. The statement is signed by former top commanders of NATO, US Naval...
- Research articles 2006-08-07
- US Coast Guard says no security shift as Castro cedes power
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US Coast Guard has not altered its security status since Cuban President Fidel Castro announced he was ceding power temporarily, a spokeswoman said. "The Coast Guard and DHS US Department of Homeland Security are monitoring the situation, but we have not modified our maritime security...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
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- * World's Largest Marine Protected Area Created. U.S. President George W. Bush announced last month his intention to establish the world's largest marine protected area -more than 84 million acres-to safeguard a remote, biologically rich string of islands and submerged lands known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands NWHI. This area...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
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