Learning Materials from the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security
In this NPS-CHDS Viewpoints, NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Mourad Mourad shares insightful methods to counter violent extremism. Mourad’s thesis, “Tailoring Violent Extremism Prevention: A Targeted Intervention Method,” identifies deficiencies in our currently employed...
In this NPS-CHDS Viewpoints, NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Ryan Whitehead talks about the correlation between his thesis research and his position as a Transportation Security Inspector with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Boston. Ryan’s...
In this NPS-CHDS Viewpoints, NPS-CHDS master’s alumnus Jim Seebock, Captain of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, discusses the evolution of his thesis. When the October 2017 Vegas Shootings occurred, he sensed a need to...
Play the audio: Providing perfect security in an era of unbounded risk is impossible. In my interview with Jack Anderson (Masters 1401), we talk about caribou scapula divination among Canadian nomadic tribes, jazz standards,...
The Worldwide Threat Assessment has been presented to Congress annually by the Director of National Intelligence; and before that office was created, it was presented by the CIA Director in his position as...
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The new issue features a research article proposing a system for detecting terrorist-deployed nuclear weapons in American cities, an essay reviewing the literature on the causes of suicide terrorism, and an essay exploring the creation...
Play the audio: Jessica Bress is the Director of Continuing Education for the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. Her thesis explores United States’ drug policy and finds it wholly unprepared for the burgeoning phenomena related...
Leaders and experts in Resource Management in Emergency Situations came together in fall 2018 to talk about ensuring people with access and functional needs are address in shelters, how the insurance industry is rebuild...
September 2018 theses released and available in the Homeland Security Digital Library. The most recent outstanding thesis winner is Greta Hurt, with her thesis work entitled “It Takes a Village: Integrating Firehouse Hubs to Encourage...
Medium.com/Homeland-Security is an App Store of Homeland Security Ideas. CHDS participants are publishing new stories every few weeks. Edited by Rodrigo Nieto Gomez
Listen to audio: Episode 007. Our conversation is with Sheriff Jim McDonnell of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. We’ll be discussing issues ranging from challenges associated with managing the County jail system in terms of...
A database which contains each and every instance a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time, day of the week,...
Listen to audio: Episode 006. In this episode, we’re taking a look at Russia’s social media war against the United States, assault on our democracy, and some options our government may use to combat...
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) has resleased a new timeline. This timeline includes a variety of events and milestones related to homeland security and emergency management. New events will be considered and added as...
Leaders and experts in school safety, youth safety and preparedness came together in summer 2018 to talk about Rethinking School Safety, Safety is Personal: Lessons Learned as a Survivor of the Virginia Tech Tragedy,...
Play the audio: We live in a world where information is abundant. But in our search for truth we must be careful. Without carefully curating the quality and rigor of information we receive, its...
In this NPS-CHDS Viewpoints, retired National Guard Brigadier General Mike McDaniel, a master’s degree alumnus, discusses his role in addressing the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. A change in the source of the city’s...
Video presentation at the 2018 APEX workshop (Alumni Professional Exchange). Mike Ananny, Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, led a session titled “Fake News: A Challenge for...
Video presentation at the 2018 APEX workshop (Alumni Professional Exchange). Michael van Lent, CEO with the company SoarTech, discusses advances and limitations in Artificial Intelligence, or AI. Van Lent talks about systems such...
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) has added two new Featured Topics: Opioids Pandemics and Epidemics Including resources on Zika Virus, Ebola Virus, Viral Hepatitis, Swine Flu (Influenza), Avian Influenza, SARS (Severe Acute...
Dr. Anne Marie Baylouny, Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and an expert in the Middle East, Refugees, Islam, and Social Welfare, talks about the Syrian refugee crisis in this four part series....
A collection of presentations and resource lists across a broad range of topics and categorized into Homeland Security and Core Competencies. Topics include Machine Learning, Drought, Aging Infrastructure, Terrorism & Transnational Criminal Organizations, Challenges in Infrastructure Funding, Asymmetric...
Full book list for every course These are some of the text books assigned to Master’s students at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security in 2015-2017 courses. See the list for all current courses:...
The Critical Infrastructure Higher Education Initiative (CI HEI) was a highly successful five year partnership between the Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) at George Mason University and the U.S. Department of...
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) has updated its Featured Topics in Terrorism to include: Domestic (U.S.) Terrorism Global Terrorism Active Shooters Lone Wolf Terrorism Suicide Bombers HSDL Featured Topics are a curated collection of...
Video Series – James Wirtz The notion that the United States is vulnerable to a strategic surprise cyber attack is often characterized as a “Cyber Pearl Harbor,” and is a mainstay of current strategic...
Lecture/presentation Homeland security intelligence is not codified in law, nor is their a defined homeland security intelligence community – which encourages inconsistent interpretations of homeland security intelligence. This module examines some of the needs...
Course — website/web application. Paul Jonathan Smith. Updated May 2017 The following three modules address counterterrorism in the United Kingdom. Tracing the UK response to violent subnational terrorism back to its efforts against the...
Course — website/web application. Developed in conjunction with Sean Everton, Co-Director and Michael Aspland, Faculty Associate for Research at the CORE Lab in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School This course is...
Course — website/web application. Nadav Morag. [Updated Dec 2016] Islam is a faith of richness and complexity that has manifested itself over time in a broad variety of ways. Unfortunately, it is also used...
Philip Mann‘s PrepTalk, “Public Works & Emergency Management: Restoring Lifeline Services” helps emergency managers and public works personnel understand the role of public works and public works role in response and recovery from disasters. The most important goal for...
Listen to audio: Episode 008: In Episode 005, we interviewed Phillip Osborne about cyber-hygiene. That episode kicked off our first show dedicated to you – the Homeland Security practitioner. For many of our listeners,...
Dr. Sheri Fink’s PrepTalk “Triage, Ethics, And Operations: Healthcare Emergency Preparedness and Response,” details two tragic events that demonstrate the value of situational awareness, the complexities of prioritizing limited resources, and the importance of...
