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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FUTURE WEBINARS

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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

Microgrids & Energy Resilience Summit

Defense Strategies Institute’s (DSI’s) Microgrids & Energy Resilience Summit will bring together U.S. Department of Defense, federal government, and industry to drive the integration and connectivity of microgrids and distributed energy resources into our defense…

2024 Defense Logistics & Support Conference

With the expertise of thought leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense, industry, academia, and allied nations, this conference dives deeper into contested logistics, assessing current challenges and strategies. The discussions will encompass technology shaping…

GridSecCon 2024

NERC, the E-ISAC, and the Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) are co-hosting the 13th annual grid security conference, GridSecCon 2024, on October 22 – 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Hyatt Regency. Join industry and government…

TechNet Indo-Pacific

TechNet Indo-Pacific is a strategic event in the Indo-Pacific Rim. This year’s conference — “Free – Open – Secure” — focuses on the critical issues identified by regional military leaders to maintain and protect data…

11th Annual EOD/IED & Countermine Symposium

The 11th Annual EOD/IED & Countermine Symposium will bring together experts, innovators, and policymakers to address critical challenges in explosive ordnance disposal, improvised explosive devices, and countermine operations. The 2024 Symposium will highlight cutting-edge research,…

Public Health in a Migrant Crisis Tabletop Exercise

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON, COLLABORATIVE EVENT. Please note, registration for this event has closed.     In 2022, there were over 100 million displaced persons globally, a number that only continues to grow. Because one region’s…

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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