Topic - Homeland Security

This page summarizes Government Innovators Network content about Homeland Security.

This section focuses on innovations in homeland security. Several key initiatives are underway as the federal government is providing extensive funding to state and local governments for equipment and training. This section covers coordinated communications, cyber protection, defense, intelligence sharing, risk assessment, border security, and airport security.

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Laboratory Response Network (39%)
Innovations in American Government Awards

moreMost Relevant News

Testimony of Under Secretary Charles Allen Before Senate Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs, "lessons from Mumbai Terrorist Attacks" (79%)
States News Service
January 8, 2009

Testimony of Under Secretary Charles Allen Before Senate Committee On Homeland Security, Governmental Affairs, 'lessons from The Mumbai Terrorist Attacks' (71%)
US Fed News
January 8, 2009

DHS Launches 'The Blog @ Homeland Security' (69%)
ABC News
June 15, 2009

Interoperable Communications Biggest State Challenge in Homeland Security, says NGA Survey (66%)
Government Technology
March 9, 2009

Feds'new security rules rile business; Policies on electronic data said rushed, costly (64%)
USA TODAY
January 7, 2009

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moreMost Relevant Documents

The U.S. National Guard and Homeland Defense (100%)
Jay Smith
Taubman Center for State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government
May 1, 2003

A Guide for Establishing a State Defense Force with a Homeland Security Mission (91%)
Colonel Martin Hershkowitz and Brigadier General Herbert O. Wardell, Jr.

December 1, 2005

Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada (76%)

John F. Kennedy School of Government
August 28, 2004

Supporting the National Strategy for Homeland Security: The Role of the National Guard (74%)
Major General Philip Oates
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
August 8, 2002

Homeland Security: Domestic Preparedness after September 11, 2001 (72%)
Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
November 2, 2001

Ensuring (and Insuring?) Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (62%)
Keneth Neil Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, and Lewis M. Branscomb
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
October 1, 2005

Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: A Progress Update (62%)
Mathew Bunn
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
March 14, 2005

moreRelated Multimedia

The Next Generation of Homeland Security: Networked People and Processes (63%)
3/1/07

How the 9/11 Report Changed America (44%)
October 26, 2004

Ideas That Really Matter: From Inspiration to Impact (37%)
September 22, 2004

Local Leadership in Times of Crisis (37%)
November 19, 2003

Governing by Network Proposes Innovations in Government (35%)
December 8, 2004

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