http://hsdailywire.com Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:00:04 -0400 Homeland Security News and Information 2008 Homeland Security Daily Wire en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://hsdailywire.com http://hsdailywire.com/ads/WEBLOGO.jpg 144 12 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6968&source=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The IRS is spending nearly $2 billion on two new systems which would more effectively handle the tax returns filed by $142 million Americans; Treasury IG finds vulnerabilities in both systems which would allow unscrupulous individuals to manipulate tax information -- and do so undetected http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6968&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6969&source=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Congress has mandated through the 9/11 law that 50 percent of cargo on passenger carrying aircraft be screened by February 2009 and 100 percent of cargo be screened by August 2010; TSA says it currently screens all cargo on narrow body, passenger-carrying aircraft; these account for more than 90 percent of all passenger carrying aircraft in the United States http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6969&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6970&source=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Biosafety labs (BSLs) handle the world's most dangerous agents and diseases; only BSL-4 labs can work with agents for which no cure or treatment exists; there are five BSL-4 labs in the United States, and GAO conducted a study of these labs' perimeter security; you are not going to like what the GAO found http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6970&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6971&source=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Researchers develop a chemical sensor that can detect minute quantities of chemicals in the air or water; it has no batters: it receives its power wirelessly from a sensor reader http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6971&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6972&source=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The nature of the struggle against terrorism involves the United States and other countries in nation building, and the scope of recent natural disasters often called on the military to help civilian agencies in disaster relief; innovative technology and better coordination would help the military in both missions http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6972&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6973&source=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Mathematicians develop a new model to explain submarine avalanches and certain types of tsunamis http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6973&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6975&source=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Iraqi military looks at unmanned air force... Iraqi brass confirm interest in F-16s, armed Helos... Lockheed Martin establishes Center for Cyber Security Innovation... Nuke detection is latest fallout from Georgia war http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6975&source=rss