HOMELAND DEFENSE

& Security Digest

21 March 2023

HDIAC collects and publishes articles related to our technical focus areas on the web to share with the DoD community.

FEATURED ARTICLE

DoD Officials Testify About Homeland Defense Before House Panel

When Army Gen. Henry Knox became the nation’s first secretary of war in 1789, the primary mission of the War Department was simple:  Defend the United States of America. That is still the priority mission for Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III today, but the complexity has obviously increased, and the threats have multiplied….

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

Respiratory Protection for Military and Law Enforcement Professionals

1.0 TI Response Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center staff searched open sources and reached out to various contacts at federal regulatory establishments for any information regarding the standards in respiratory protection for law enforcement and military personnel. Depending on the jurisdiction of the agency, the following regulations were found: • 29 CFR part 1910.134 [1], “Respiratory Protection,” released by the Occupational Safety and…

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

Vulnerabilities to Food Security: Impacts on Military Readiness and National Security

The Food and Agriculture (FA) sector is designated as one of the 16 critical infrastructures that contribute to our economic stability and security.  Vulnerabilities to the FA sector pose a threat to food security, national security, and military readiness.  In this webinar, we review the findings of a state-of-the-art report in progress by HDIAC, which…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The Department of Defense (DoD) Energy and Environment Innovation Symposium

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Energy and Environment Innovation Symposium focuses on the DoD’s priority in environmental and energy issues. The Symposium will offer a variety of technical sessions and short courses, over 700 technical…

Public Health in a Migrant Crisis Tabletop Exercise

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON, COLLABORATIVE EVENT.   In 2022, there were over 100 million displaced persons globally, a number that only continues to grow. Because one region’s instability bleeds into its surrounding areas, it is all…

Voice From the Community

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William Eberle

Tennessee Tech University

William Eberle is a professor at Tennessee Tech University, with over 19 years of industry experience, most notably 10 years developing artifical intelligence/machinelearning models for anomaly detection in the telecommunications industry and 7
years working on defense-related projects, including flight simulators and missile defense systems. He has been working for the last 15 years in anomaly detection, developing new techniques for analyzing graph-based representations of data in domains such as terrorist networks, cargo shipments, network traffic, and telecommunications activities.

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