Features
Playing the Piper
Businesses wouldn’t bite on the last attempt to lure them into biodefense, so the Health and Human Services Department is changing its tune.
Features
Snapping Back
Since we can’t prevent every disaster or attack, why not shift focus toward surviving them?
News And Analysis
Picture This
Rising accuracy rate makes face recognition technology a viable security tool.
Features
Fish Story
Companies expected to land big deals when Homeland Security was created four years ago. Things haven’t panned out as they anticipated.
Defense
Concern mounts about latest effort to control U.S. borders
Critics worry project will become one more in a long line of DHS big-ticket programs to end up over cost, behind schedule and, in some cases, with ineffective results.
Defense
DHS preparedness chief resigns amid reorganization
FEMA is taking over grant programs, disaster assistance and operations, and other activities in the soon-to-be-gone preparedness directorate.
Features
Righting the Ship
A former submarine commander takes the helm at the Homeland Security Department’s troubled science shop.
News And Analysis
Sniffing Out Threats
New York’s mystery odor shows that modern sensors are limited in their ability to detect airborne chemicals.
News And Analysis
Geographic Cure
The emergency medical system returns home, hopefully to better health.
Features
The Sniff Test
Machines might be able to detect chemicals or explosives in suspicious bags, but dogs also can go anywhere, give comfort or intimidate, and learn.
Defense
Emergency preparedness exercises remain an imperfect science
The government runs scores of drills each year, but critics say responses to real-life events often show the tests weren’t adequate.
News And Analysis
Search: 'Spending'
New law calls for a database taxpayers can use to track government contracts.
News And Analysis
One-Hit Wonders
Focus on threats - after they happen - foils security spending, critics say.
News And Analysis
Retail to the Rescue
Business is a largely untapped source of help for disaster planning and response.
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