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As Law Enforcement Moves to Cloud, Security Concerns Loom Large

December 29, 2011 by Jeff Smith
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Government agencies at all levels are examining how to use cloud services as a means of upgrading their systems while maximizing value. Moving to cloud can allow agencies to condense sprawling IT systems, offer more mobility options and manage legacy systems. However, along with all of this convenience comes a significant security... [read more]

Making Homeland Security Work Right

January 6, 2010 by Elizabeth Ross-Harrison
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Over twenty years ago a fellow traveler of mine from my days in the world of literature wrote a novel about a photojournalist presumed dead in an attack in Lebanon. It wasn’t well-received then, but Stills by Samuel Hazo is frighteningly prescient for post 9/11 readers. Although it doesn’t depict an attack anywhere near as devastating as... [read more]

Smoke and mirrors on National Security

May 22, 2009 by Elizabeth Ross-Harrison
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Dueling national security speeches aside - because that’s where they belong - a greater issue has been left unanswered. Even the Pelosi debacle that left Feinstein muttering mostly gibberish on MSNBC yesterday, and Specter calling for transcripts of CIA briefings is beside the point. Since September 11, 2001 at about 11 a.m., I have been... [read more]

CAP as a Cost-Effective Force Multiplier

May 20, 2009 by Civil Air Patrol NatCap Wing
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The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of using Civil Air Patrol assets. H.R. 1178 directs the U.S. Government Accountability Office to study the ways CAP may assist state, local and tribal governments and the Department of Homeland Security by providing aerial reconnaissance or... [read more]

Truth, Newt Gingrich-style

May 20, 2009 by Elizabeth Ross-Harrison
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Every once in a while I see someone in politics “step in it” up to their necks, and just can’t resist the temptation to call them on it. Although no longer in public office, and in the public eye for reasons I fail to comprehend, Newt Gingrich, theoretically by merit of formerly holding the office of Speaker, now finds it necessary to... [read more]

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