Center for Homeland Defense and Security
The Nation's Homeland Security Educator
The Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) academic programs promote collaboration among leaders both during and after completion of their CHDS programs. One of the main ways students keep...
NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security master’s degree graduate Gloria Chavez was named Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol in the El Centro Sector in April, the latest stop...
Master’s degree alumna Beverly Good’s job as Customs and Border Protection Port Director at the El Paso Port of Entry calls for a dash of expertise in the array of...
Eric Taquechel (MA, 2010) recently published his third journal article in support of risk management advancement. In “Options and Challenges of a Resilience-Based, Network-Focused Port Security Grant Program” published in...
Download the paper: “” For Candice Wright, implementing her vision of port security not only took academic research and years of professional insight, but a great deal of persistence. Her...
Download the paper: “Layered Defense: Modeling Terrorist Transfer Threat Networks and Optimizing Network Risk Reduction” Students in Ted Lewis’ Critical Infrastructure Protection course are taught how mathematic modeling can provide...