Help! Need info on technology and Homeland Security

[CheshireCat]

My nephew has to write a paper on "Homeland Security & Technology".

Can anyone help me find some sources or tell me how you would approach this topic?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[Cerridwen]

1. Here's a Start - The Dept's own web site - Research and Tech.

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/theme_home5.jsp

[CheshireCat]

3. Thanks!

That will help.

Does anyone have any bookmarks at DU or links to info on TIA?

[sweetheart]

2. uk home office

Here are some links on home office technology so you can compare

http://search2.openobjects.com/kbroker/hoffice/hoffice/kbsearch?qt=technology&sr=0&nh=10&cs=iso-8859-1&sc=ho&ha=6&mt=1

[CheshireCat]

4. bump

[CheshireCat]

5. Bump for the morning crowd

I have many DU bookmarks that could help me, but that feature has been disabled until after the election.

That's why I am asking for links.

I have enough sources that are considered "not biased". Now I would like some that focus on how our privacy is being taken away by the technology used by Homeland Security.

Also, anything about TIA (Total Information Awareness).

Dpes anyone know a way for me to get to my bookmarks on DU - even though the feature has been disabled?

[PBX9501]

6. Good Books

The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets (James Bramford) are excellent sources of information on the functions of the NSA. They receive the largest budget in the intelligence community. NSA maintains one of the largest arrays of supercomputers in the world and employs some of the best mathematicians out there.

He could focus on several aspects of homeland security. Electronic Intelligence gathering, Satellite imagery(plenty of links on the web to hi res images), etc.

http://www.spaceimaging.com/
These are 16m res images. The real deal can produce sub 1m res in visible and ir band.
This image is closer to 3 meter.
http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom-interpret-f.htm

Of course these satellites can provide this in video format and are fed into computers that use software to match patterns. This would be similar to software used in high end xray analysis.

Other aspects like field intelligence will be impossible to document since it is classified.

NEST has an interesting website as well. They are responsible for reacting to nuclear incidents.