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December 7, 2009: Newswise (Ryerson University) - Mathematical Models Key to Tracking Gossip, Terrorists - With the right mathematical model, you could spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet. One day, similar models could even detect and track terrorist cells within online social networks.
November 17, 2009: The Washington Post - Settling an Intelligence Turf War by Walter Pincus -The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA battle over turf as the ODNI tries to establish its role as supervisor of all 16 intelligence agencies.
November 9, 2009: The Atlantic - Cyber Security Goes Prime Time by Shane Harris - While 60 Minutes may have not blown the lid off anything last night, they have elevated the attention of the cyber security issue to new heights.
August 9, 2009: The Washington Post - Analysts Expect Long-Term, Costly U.S. Campaign in Afghanistan by Walter Pincus - Military experts are warning that the United States is taking on security and political commitments that will last at least a decade and a cost that will probably eclipse that of the Iraq war.
August 7, 2009: The Washington Examiner- Intelligence Gathering and Analysis: Spy Game Politics by Jim Kouri - This article discusses the importance of human intelligence and how we need high quality analysts in order to produce high quality analysis.
July 31, 2009: Federal Computer Week - The Great Cybersecurity Star Search by Ben Bain - Threats to the country’s most important computer systems don’t merely represent technical problems; they also highlight an urgent workforce challenge, according to computer security experts.
July 2009: Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management - Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Courses by Linda Kiltz - Since 9/11 both students and practitioners in homeland security and emergency management must not only learn to prepare for an uncertain future, but also to deal with the systemic stress that homeland security places on American government and society. In order to learn to effectively deal with these types of changes and challenges, they must become skilled in higher-level thinking and reasoning.
May 29, 2009: Financial Times - China's Rare Earth Monopoly Threatens Global Suppliers, Rival Producers Claim by Cole Latimer, Jieun Kim, Mia Tahara-Stubbs & Yumin Wang - With over 90 percent of the global rare earth resources held by Chinese companies, the country’s monopoly looks unchallenged. Rare earth metals are needed for the manufacturing of wind turbines, plasma televisions, mobile phones and hybrid car batteries.
May 29, 2009: PRI's The World - The Science of Decision Making - Anchor Marco Werman speaks with The World's Science correspondent David Kohn about his conversation with science writer Jonah Lehrer. They talked about the science of decision-making, using the 1973 Yom Kippur War as an example.
April 21, 2009: The Wall Street Journal - Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project by Siobhan Gorman, August Cole and Yochi Dreazen - Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Join Strike Fighter project according to current and former government officials.
April 9, 2009: Perens.com - A Cyber-Attack On An American City by Bruce Perens - There was a coordinated attack on the communications infrastructure of an American city. And few seem to have realized the implications.
April 9, 2009: The Washington Post - Extremist Web Sites Are Using U.S. Hosts by Joby Warrick and Candace Rondeaux- Militants' use of U.S. Web hosts has sparked occasional spats between the United States and its allies, as well as it is better to shut down the Web sites or to let them continue to operate.
April 8, 2009: The Wall Street Journal - Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies by Siobhan Gorman - Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system according to current and former national-security officials.
April 2, 2009: The Wall Street Journal - Report Outlines Weaknesses at Intelligence Agencies by Siobhan Gorman -The U.S. intelligence chief has sent conflicting messages to the agencies he supervises, and bureaucratic turf battles continue to rage among the 16 spy agencies.
March 30 , 2009: Federal Computer Week - When Cyber Crime Goes Local by Ben Hain - As the number of cyber crime cases increase, state and local agencies are taking an active role in the investigation.
March 16 , 2009: Computerworld - DHS Exec's Resignation Raises Red Flags on NSA's Cybersecurity Role by Jaikumar Vijayan - The abrupt resignation of one of the U.S. government's top cybersecurity officials has exposed widespread -- though not universal -- opposition to the National Security Agency's expanding role in federal security initiatives.
February 15, 2009: The New York Times - The Coming Swarm by John Arquilla - Arquilla discusses how swarming, smaller-scale terrorist violence is on the rise and that Americans should brace for a coming swarm.
February 12, 2009: The New York Times - Global Economy Top Threat to U.S., Spy Chief Says by Mark Mazzetti - The new director of national intelligence told Congress that global economic turmoil and the instability it could ignite had outpaced terrorism as the most urgent threat facing the United States.
February 4, 2009: New York Daily News - Spies Form Virtual Units on The Fly to Track Terror by James Gordon Meek - U.S. analysts using social networking tools to analyze terrorists attacks.
January 24, 2009: ENC Today - Police Intelligence by David Anderson - Kinston, N.C. police use data analysis techniques to stop crime.
January 22, 2009: The Wall Street Journal - Intelligence Agencies Set to be Linked by Siobhan Gorman - U.S. spy agencies' sensitive data should soon be linked by Google-like search systems.
January 16, 2009: The New York Times - The Prado 2.0 by Robert Mackey - Google and the Prado Museum are making it possible for Web-surfing art lovers to "zoom in" on 14 of the museum’s greatest works without ever setting foot in Spain.
January 16, 2009: CQ Politics - Intelligence Chief Says New Policy Will Dramatically Boost Information Sharing by Tim Starks - As one of his final acts Michael McConnell said he would sign off on an intelligence information sharing policy that would dramatically increase the amount of data available within the community.
January 16, 2009: Associated Press - Intel Director: Iran, Cyber Threats Biggest Worry by Pamela Hess - Iran producing a nuclear weapon and cyber attacks on critical government or private computer networks top the list of concerns for outgoing Intelligence Director Michael McConnell.
January 16, 2009: The Washington Post - Inquiry into Interrogations Unlikely by Joby Warwick- President-elect Barack Obama signaled top intelligence officials that he has no intentions to launch a legal inquiry into CIA's past use of waterboarding.
January 15, 2009: The New York Times - Court Affirms Wiretapping Without Warrants by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau - A secret federal appeals court said telecommunications companies must cooperate with the government to intercept international phone calls and e-mail of American citizens suspected of being spies or terrorists.
January 15, 2009: The Christian Science Monitor- An Intense U.S. Focus on Checking Terrorism by Howard LaFranchi - This article analyzes President Bush's foreign policy, other decisions and initiatives that will also carry weight well into the future.
January 15, 2009: The Economist - The Price of Prejudice - This article highlights the use of conjoint analysis to aid researchers in quantifying the "stereotype tax" -- the price that the person doing the stereotyping pays for his preconceived notions.
January 13, 2009: The Wall Street Journal - U.S. Faces New Space Race by Andy Pasztor - The Obama administration faces a different kind of space race, with broader scientific, national-security and business implications.
January 12, 2009: Federal Computer Week - FBI Goes Global on Threats by Ben Bain - This article discusses the challenges that law enforcement officials face in the age of global interconnectedness and criminal behavior that operates without regard to national borders.
January 9, 2009: NBC's Today Show - Fight Against Fake Designer Goods Isn't Frivolous by Dana Thomas - Up to 7 percent of our annual world trade — $600 billion worth — is counterfeit or pirated. Fakes are believed to be directly responsible for the loss of more than 750,000 American jobs.
January 7, 2009: Federal Computer Week - IG: Fusion Centers Need Better Information from DHS by Alice Lipowicz- The Homeland Security Department is improving how it delivers information to state and local fusion centers, but the centers still have problems in receiving “adequate and timely” information