September 12, 2003
Volume 1, Number 3

 
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Enter Your Choice for an "Innovator Award"
Jeff Erlichman Executive Director Public Sector Institute
Share top achievements with your colleagues. Nominate public sector programs that demonstrate innovative solutions or the use of Best Practices. Awardees will be profiled in future issues of “Homeland Security Strategies”. To nominate click here.

High Stakes Writing's Dr. Dees Stallings is a chief proponent of "The One-Knuckle Technique"

By Dees Stallings

E-mail is the fastest, most convenient and cost-effective means of communicating in writing today. What does that mean to us in a government workplace? It means: more...

Innovators In Action
Convergence in Geospace

Geospatial technology today is the convergence of GIS, GPS, remote sensing technologies, mapping, and other capabilities.

Getting "geo prepared" is all about carving out standards.

Geospatial preparedness in the war on terrorism follows from a basic fact of life in post-9/11 America. "We don't know where the next terrorist event is going to be," said Susan Kalweit, who leads the federal Interagency Geospatial Preparedness Team.

Essentially, this means that emergency response managers have to be ready everywhere. more...

Cybergeddon: Dispatches from the eWars
The Fight for Battlespace 4

Using cyberspace in warfare is triggering new electronic dangers.

By Robert Green

There is no evidence a hacker can shut down the power grid or crash planes into each other - yet.

The speculation that the massive power outage in northeast North America might have been caused by a hacker or terrorist will likely persist until the actual cause is ascertained. It is fueled in part by a belief that, as the global war on terrorism and other regional conflicts persist, hackers naturally begin to focus on national "enemy" infrastructures, and are also more likely to act in a concerted, organized way-and thus more effectively. more...