Center for Homeland Defense and Security
The Nation's Homeland Security Educator
For more than 230 years, the U.S. Marshals Service has been in charge of providing judicial security for federal courts, including some 2,700 federal judges today. But it has only...
A surge in migrant families and unaccompanied children is overwhelming U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), specifically U.S. Border Patrol, along the U.S.-Mexico border, leading to overcrowded temporary processing facilities...
Leonardo DaVinci once said that, “All great acts of genius began with the same consideration: “Do not be constrained by your present reality.” That’s the thinking behind two notable thinkers,...
After more than 15 years guiding the Center for Homeland Defense and Security’s Executive Leaders Program (ELP) from inception to execution to expansion, Ellen Gordon has retired. “Ellen so much...
For Virginia state coordinator of emergency management Curtis Brown, diversity, equity and inclusion in homeland security and emergency management is not just the right thing to do, it’s the smart...
U.S Capitol Police were anticipating a large protest in the days before the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, but not a coordinated “insurrection,” and planning and response efforts were...
