Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate

Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate
Author: Gilles Cuvelier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781628083569

Policymakers generally believe that science and technology can and will play significant roles in improving homeland security. When Congress established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Homeland Security Act of 2002, it included the Directorate of Science and Technology (S&T) to ensure that the new department had access to science and technology advice and capabilities for research and development (R&D). The S&T Directorate is the primary organization for R&D in the DHS. It conducts R&D in several DHS laboratories and funds R&D conducted by other government agencies, the Department of Energy national laboratories, academia, and the private sector. Additionally, the directorate supports the development of operational requirements and oversees the operational testing and evaluation of homeland security systems for the DHS. This book provides a brief overview of the S&T Directorate's mission, organization, and budgetary structure; a discussion of selected critiques of the S&T Directorate; and an analysis of selected issues facing congressional policymakers.

Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Author: Tushar K. Ghosh
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2002-08-29
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780203910641

Citing viable homeland defense strategies, this book examines the potential agents, delivery methods, and toxic and nontoxic effects of possible nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorist attacks. Providing countermeasures for governmental and emergency first-response teams, the book covers the impact of WMDs on public health, agriculture, and eco

Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence

Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence
Author: Mizue Aizeki
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume exposes these insidious means of surveillance, control, and violence. In the name of “smart” borders, the U.S. and Europe have turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory now deployed against the Global South, borderlands, and routes of migration. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centers, and more, all to more “efficiently” categorize and control human beings and their movement. These technologies rarely capture widespread public attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world, scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence shed light on this new threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it. The organizers, journalists, and scholars in these pages are charting a new path forward, employing creative tools to subvert the status quo, organize globally against high-tech border imperialism, and help us imagine a world without borders.

Utilisation of South African Research on Higher Education

Utilisation of South African Research on Higher Education
Author: Jan Botha
Publisher: African Sun Media
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1991201400

The relationship between research, on the one hand, and policy/practice on the other hand, is complicated and collaboration between scholars in research on higher education (RHE) and institutional research (IR) practitioners is often lacking. This book marks a collaborative effort of a diverse range of South African RHE and IR scholars and asks the overarching questions: What do we know about the utilisation of South African research on higher education (SARHE) and its subset of research known as Institutional Research? How and by whom is this research used? The book begins by looking at the historical underpinnings of SARHE and delineating the shape and size of this body of research. This is followed by a series of case studies on South African Higher Education institutions and governmental bodies, investigating how, when and by whom are research on higher education and institutional research used in the decision-making of these organisations. This book is the first of its kind in South Africa and sets out to lay the groundwork for further research into the use, uptake and utilisation of RHE and IR in this country.

Financial Cryptography and Data Security

Financial Cryptography and Data Security
Author: Jens Grossklags
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2017-05-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662549700

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2016, held in Christ church, Barbados, in February 2016. The 27 revised full papers and 9 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 137 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: fraud and deception; payments, auctions, and e-voting; multiparty computation; mobile malware; social interaction and policy; cryptanalysis; surveillance and anonymity; Web security and data privacy; Bitcoin mining; cryptographic protocols; payment use and abuse.

Information Services on Research in Progress

Information Services on Research in Progress
Author: Smithsonian Science Information Exchange
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1982
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

UNISIST-UNESCO pub. International directory of information services and information systems on ongoing research - reviews world trends in research policy and activities; presents profiles of data bases and research centres (arranged by international, regional and national services); includes detailed indexes and a questionnaire. MINISIS and ILO mentioned. Graphs and references.

Scientists in Whitehall

Scientists in Whitehall
Author: Philip Gummett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1980
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780719007910