The following downward spiral of events within the past few weeks have caused tensions between the U.S. and Iran to escalate quickly: On June 13, two tankers had been damaged by explosions in the Gulf of Oman, which is considered a strategic waterway crucial to global...
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The FBI arrested Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, a 21-year-old refugee from Syria, that meticulously planned to bomb a church located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alowemer arrived in the U.S. as a refugee in 2016 and had met with an undercover FBI agent and another FBI source, both posing...
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Scientific Reports recently published a new paper- Past and Future Hurricane Intensity Change along the U.S. East Coast, which finds that climate change could alter wind shear in a way that could deliver more powerful hurricanes to the East Coast. As earlier studies show, rising sea...
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Join the global security industry at IFSEC International 2019 18-20 June 2019, ExCeL London IFSEC International is the UK and Europe’s leading integrated security event. Taking place on 18-20 June at ExCeL London, it brings together over 27,000 security professionals from 110+ countries looking to source new...
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The NG911 project was created in 2001 by the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) as a way to update emergency services and communications capabilities with the same abilities that are present in everyday life. Today, the 911...
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In today’s world, when the proliferation of data is soaring on “news feeds” and social media platforms, public awareness to the threats of terrorism, crime and natural disasters is at an all-time high. This fact is driving elected officials, politicians, and private sector managers to...
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Airports, critical infrastructure, and even stadiums are on the lookout for the growing threat of drones. In the past 2 years, there have been numerous incidents of drones infiltrating secure airspace. Luckily, most of these events were not due to terrorist attacks, but rather small...
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On January 25, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order (see Appendix A) that calls for the construction of a border wall along the U.S. southern border to prevent illegal immigration from Mexico. The executive order includes the following action: " Produce a comprehensive study of...
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Terrorist attacks in Europe are not a surprising event anymore. Every few weeks, another country in Europe finds itself under attack by terror. Germany, France, the UK, and Belgium are now all part of the global map of terror incidents. A stronger army and a...
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Islamic State Terror, Which is of Historical Proportions Will Lead to $22B in Homeland Security Infrastructure Spending by Middle Eastern StatesThe crisis in Iraq is tectonically important. Fighting between the Iraqi government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (now abbreviated, IS)...
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