Choosing IED detection method calls for objectivity

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, OUT OF THE CLASSROOMDownload the paper: Paper: Explosive Detection Technologies for Commercial Ferries” U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Rob McLellan wrote his course paper in Technology on Homeland Security on the array of technologies..

Wagner Discusses 'Unfinished Business'

Center for Homeland Defense and Security News and Stories, PRESS RELEASESAfter more than three decades of government service, Caryn Wagner has some unfinished business. And that business made for quality classroom time April 8-9 as the recently retired Department of..

ELP Grad Takes Reins of FEMA Region III

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESMaryAnn Tierney won’t have to travel far for her latest career move. Tierney was named Regional Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Region III this month and will begin..

Grossman to Lead Security for Westfield

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESMichael Grossman’s most recent position at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department required bringing the private sector into the homeland security enterprise. He now has the opportunity to view the..

Website is National Resource for Homeland Security Educators

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESFor the first time in the country’s history, colleges, universities and agencies can share homeland security curriculum and multi-media content with a new website that is designed specifically to meet..

DHS Fuses Texas Expertise Into National Intelligence Network

Center for Homeland Defense and Security News and Stories, PRESS RELEASESFor Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Captain Jaeson Jones the concepts of multi-agency partnering often taught at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security provide the..

Alumnus leads state-federal cyber-crime fight in Utah

Center for Homeland Defense and Security News and Stories, PRESS RELEASESBack in 2012, Keith Squires of the Utah Department of Public Safety received some troubling news from the state’s technology director. More and more cyber attacks were hitting Utah and..

Jensen's Community Policing Efforts Build Partnerships with Muslim Community

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESWhile Dennis Jensen was a student at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security he crafted a thesis on how community policing could fight crime among a growing Somali population..

Times Square Case Highlights FDNY's Counterterrorism Mission

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESSomething did not look right. When the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) responded to a reported car fire in Times Square May 1, 2010, firefighters noticed some things seemed..

Stockton Outlines "Unity of Effort"

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESDr. Paul Stockton unveiled a new vision in which the Department of Defense is reaching out to state governors so that both can more effectively work together in responding to..