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Border Management Modernization Edited by Gerard McLinden, Enrique Fanta, David Widdowson & Tom Doyle Border clearance processes by customs and other agencies are among the most important and problematic links in the global supply chain. It takes three times as many days, nearly twice as many...

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer If you can't join us for the film, and even if you can, take a few hours to read Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Jonothan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his...

DHS OIG:  Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security The DHS Office of the Inspector General issued its latest look at the Department's management challenges last month.  While the document did not hold any surprises it reinforced the numerous department-wide and operational challenges faced by...

DHS Risk Lexicon  (click pic to read) The DHS Risk Lexicon makes available a common, unambiguous set of official terms and definitions to ease and improve the communication of risk-related issues for DHS and its partners. It facilitates the clear exchange of structured and unstructured data that...

In the years after 9/11, officials scrambled to rethink security at the border and in the air-while privacy groups and foreign governments did their best to stop and then roll back security measures. As a result, we have only partially closed gaping security holes. Worse,...

LEARN FROM READING The papers and reports below have been featured in WHS' monthly newsletter and reflect a variety of topics and reports from numerous sources. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Unclassified Executive Summary of Committee Report on 1225 Bombing Conclusions of the Senate Select Committee's investigation of...