Learning Materials from the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security
The Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community is presented to Congress by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Since 2014, CHDS has produced a media-enhanced annotated version of the text document.
The Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School graduates students with a Masters degree in Security Studies every March, September and December (with occasional June graduates). Find all 1000+ theses...
Listen to audio: In this episode of Homeland, I had the opportunity to speak with Noel Lipana where we talked about moral injury, coffee, Jiu-Jitsu, coffee, healing through art, and of course, more about...
A collection of reports focused on ransomware: CRS reports, guides, trends, best practices and frameworks.
In this episode of the CHDS Master’s Thesis Series, Nicholas Knowlton and Robert O’Malley discuss their research and recommendations concerning the integration of immigrants into American life. Knowlton makes the case that electoral participation...
Join CHDS on Thursday, May 13. In this webinar, technology and communications experts discuss the latest research in disinformation and actions local, state and federal leaders can take to counter the influence and impact...
Join CHDS on Thursday, April 29. In this webinar, national leaders will discuss what is next in the US response to COVID-19, from the “last mile” of vaccine distribution to what the pandemic could...
In this talk, Heather Issvoran discusses the importance of first impressions and understanding your online presence. She provides suggestions on developing a professional brand identity, selecting relevant platforms for your purposes, and growing an...
Eric Saylors explains the research and drills the Sacramento, CA fire department undertook to reduce the response time involved in rescuing, treating and transporting the wounded in active shooter events. Saylors discusses how...
As technology becomes more prevalent and impersonal, Lier Chen challenges policymakers to stop their reliance upon simplistic interpretations of data that cause reactionary decisions. She provides a new tool, Muted Voices, that uses radical...
Katelin Wright explores the potential implications for migration to the U.S. as a result of the effects of climate change. Using models of severe weather patterns in the coming decades, she explores the expected...
Matthew S. Austin provides his perspective on the usefulness of wearable technology as an early indicator of illness for military personnel in a COVID-19 pandemic environment. While the technology does not provide a direct...
Chad Houck provides an overview of how the State of Idaho was able to secure its 2020 elections. Idaho developed some unique partnerships that utilized lessons from the military to enable election administrators to...
John Gordon provides insight into how Salafi-Jihadist extremists as well as racially/ethnically motivated extremists seek to maintain relevance by using propaganda to exploit the isolation and frustrations of COVID 19 and domestic political tensions....
Paul Jara discusses the complexity involved in activating DoD, DHS and National Guard resources in a multi-state disaster like COVID. While it has become commonplace to see uniformed personnel serving in every aspect of...
Christopher Whiting talks about the challenges public health has faced during the COVID-19 response balancing the sharing of private health information with law enforcement and other first responders. He shares the findings from his...
Wesley R. Moy and Kacper Gradon provide their perspectives on the ramifications of COVID-19. The pandemic effects have highlighted longstanding societal divisions, disproportionately harming minority groups and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Moy and Gradon explore...
Dr. Erik Dahl discusses how the coronavirus pandemic represents a global intelligence failure. He explores how it was a failure for the traditional intelligence community as well as the national and international medical...
Chief Cynthia Renaud discusses the growing and evolving complexities of mass gatherings and crises and how first responders can become quickly overtasked with multiple threats in one event. Have we become as agile...
Join CHDS on March 31 and April 14, 2021. In this two-part webinar series, legal and public policy experts will discuss how government roles, responsibilities, and authorities have evolved in recent years and what...
The Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School graduates students with a Masters degree in Security Studies every March, September and December (with occasional June graduates). Find all 1000+ theses...
Join the Center for Homeland Defense and Security for a continuing conversation about the challenges and emerging model practices for housing, sheltering, and congregate population management during the pandemic.
Webinar Time: January 29, 2:00 PM Eastern/11:00 AM Pacific. In an age of information overload, it is increasingly difficult to deliver critical information to targeted audiences and the public at large. The influx of...
Listen to audio: As I mentioned in our last episode; I’ll be releasing several conversations originally recorded during the APEX 2020 conference; this is one of those. In this episode, I’m joined by Madeline Kristoff...
In this episode of the CHDS Master’s Thesis Series, Heather Issvoran interviews Bruno Dias, Director of Safety, Security, and Threat Management for the Mansfield Independent School District on his thesis, “Blip on the...
The December 2020 Special COVID Issue of Homeland Security Affairs features eleven essays which chronicle agency and jurisdictional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons learned thus far. The essays focus on how agencies or...
Climate Security has been described as the defining threat of the 21st Century. John Comiskey and Michael Larrañaga take a “pre-mortem” look at this emerging challenge. In this Short Talk, they provide an...
Listen to audio: Before we jump into today’s episode, I want to thank each of you for hanging with us during the very busy months of 2020. I guess this show has been directly...
In this episode of the CHDS Master’s Thesis Series, host Heather Issvoran interviews Scott Fenton (cohort 1803/1804) on his thesis, “Misinformation Contagion: A View Through an Epidemiological Lens.” Fenton, Captain with the Monterey...
A collection of government reports, hearings, international perspectives, research, analysis, and websites focused on misinformation, disinformation and fake news.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Coronavirus Task Force member and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in an interview with CHDS Subject Matter Expert, Eileen O’Connor, provides the latest updates...
Human trafficking is happening undetected across the United States. Hear how Bentley Nettles’ state agency in Texas mobilized efforts to combat this widespread and horrendous criminal practice. In this short talk, Bentley describes...
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,...
In the age of information explosion and unrelenting bombardment with opinions indistinguishable from news, how do we pay attention? Watch as Nick Catrantzos, a “pracademic” with stratcolab, reveals his secret: analyzing content for...
Play the audio: Experts draw on years of experience to detect patterns and make predictions when facing novel situations. US Secret Service Assistant Special Agent In Charge James Huse (Masters 1601/2) investigates decision making,...
Discover how leaders can harness the energy and positive contributions of potential whistle-blowers. Colonel Tom Rempfer, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) shares his personal experience as a successful and unyielding whistle-blower. Too often, whistle-blower...
This webinar is part of the CHDS Lecture and Webinar Series and is held in partnership with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), CHDS Alumni Association, International Association of Emergency Managers...
Panel Discussion from the 12th Annual Homeland Defense and Security Education Summit held in Monterey, CA on October 31 through November 1, 2019 which had a topic of “Public Interest Security: Leveraging Education to...
What is “health equity” and how is it a homeland security issue? William Pilkington provides a snapshot of the issues that impact the security of the American people as a result of public...
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium: Imagination, Improvisation, and Innovation in Emergency Management Education. June 1-4, 2020 [pdf] View Full Program [pdf] | Share Fair Directory [pdf] | Poster Session: Final...
Webinar Description: Organizational leaders have seen their plans for 2020 upended by the pandemic. As the country begins to reopen, leaders are facing a multitude of uncertainties about the Nation’s health, the economy, and ever-changing...
The Homeland Security Digital Library COVID-19 Resource Archive brings together documents from agencies and organizations that capture the environment, debates, and hard realities affecting governmental and public health policy decisions in preparedness, response, and...
Webinar Description: Throughout the pandemic, government leaders, health care professionals, and communities around the globe have confronted extraordinary resource allocation questions as the number of critically ill patients grew daily amidst severe shortages of equipment,...
Webinar Description: The Cyberspace Solarium Commission was established in the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act to develop a consensus strategy for defending the United States against cyber attacks. The Commission’s report, released March 11,...
In this Alumni Short Talk, Dr. Noël Lipana addresses the issue of moral injury. Moral injury often occurs when a person commits, fails to prevent, or witnesses an act that is anathema to their...
A weekly resource summary of COVID-19 information, policies, and emerging smart practices shared amongst the CHDS Community.
The ever-changing COVID-19 world has caused many leaders to ask, “When no one knows the answer, how do you field questions from the media and the public?”. In this webinar, CHDS communications experts weigh...
In this NPS-CHDS Weekly Student & Alumni COVID-19 Webinar, recorded May 14, 2020, leadership from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) share some of the lessons learned to date and how they are...
Dr. Crystal Watson, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, discusses the COVID-19 outbreak and the status of U.S. preparedness to combat the virus. She explores the broader public health...
Decisions are being made every day to close and re-open the economy. Travel restrictions are in place in some areas but not in others, beaches are opening and/or ordered closed, barbershops and floral shops are...
Public Policy and Legal Issues During the Pandemic: What Have We Learned and What Is On the Horizon? May 5, 2020. CHDS-NEMA-IAEM Webinar: Personal, Organizational and Community Resilience, April 29, 2020. CHDS-NCJA Webinar: Understanding...
February 18, 2020, Annual CHDS Alumni APEX Workshop, Monterey, CA. Katelyn Mason and Sam Korta discuss the importance of how state and non-state actors manipulate real world events to propagate narratives that influence and...
Play the audio: COVID19 has swept the globe in little more than 3 months. Health officials have enacted quarantine orders to reduce the disease’s spread but who enforces those orders? Lieutenant Don Lowenthal (Masters...
Dr. Liu highlights how social media can be an effective communication channel in disasters, how emergency managers can incorporate data provided by the general public into actionable intelligence during an emergency response, and how...
Dr. Kunreuther discusses the processes and biases in decision-making under uncertainty. He also proposes a behavioral risk audit that couple’s protective decision-making with economic incentives, enabling individual and collective actions to achieve greater resilience....
Kate Konschnik, Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University and is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, dives into the fundamentals...
Listen to audio: In this episode I have the opportunity to talk with not just one or two of our fellow alum, rather I have the pleasure of speaking with four: Steven Polunsky, Will...
Play the audio: Why does the click-through rate on threatening headlines far exceed those that are more benign? Calling something a threat through a provocative headline or soundbite initiates a biological reaction that almost...
In this episode of Viewpoints, Heather Issvoran interviews Carol Lucas on the topic of Biometric Identity. Lucas is a Senior Strategic Planner for the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) at the Department...
Lecture/presentation. Noel Yucuis This lesson helps students work through the pitfalls of summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing, which often lead to inadvertent plagiarism.
Resources to help improve your reading, writing, thinking, learning, and research skills.
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...
Each HSDL In Focus brings together short lists of resources in the HSDL collection that are highly relevant to current events. Recent lists include: 5G and National Security Insider Threats Extreme Heat Violence against...
In this NPS-CHDS Viewpoints, CHDS alumni Dr. Michael Larranaga and Dr. John Comiskey discuss the results of their examination of the potential threats that climate change could have on the nation’s homeland security...
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:...
Lecture/presentation — video. Marianne Taflinger Do you wonder where to start when sitting down to write your first paper in homeland security? This course teaches you how to write the introduction, body, and conclusion...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
