Four years ago today, a 26-year-old student at Umpqua Community College in Oregon fatally shot a professor and eight students and wounded eight others, before killing himself as police approached.
Balancing School Risks in the Year of the Mass Shooter
As children around the U.S. start a new school year, the recent spate of mass shootings in Texas, Ohio and elsewhere is very much on the minds of their parents.
The View from a DHS OpEx
Every two years or so, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate conducts what it calls an Urban Operational Experimentation, or OpEx, in a major metropolitan area.
Enhancing Mobile Domain Awareness
During fast-moving crises and major scheduled events, commanders often discover that they lack sufficiently detailed information on their most critical assets, as well as awareness of the threats and hazards
The Parkland Tragedy, One Year Later
The Parkland Tragedy, One Year Later by John Boatman The massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSDHS) in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018 was one of the three
Hurricane Florence Highlights Emergency Response and Recovery Efforts
Federal, state and local emergency management agencies (EMAs) along the mid-Atlantic seaboard are bracing for the arrival Hurricane Florence, which appears to be one of the region’s strongest storms in
Haystax Technology Named Top Public Safety Innovator
Haystax Technology has been designated as one of only a handful of public safety industry innovators by MarketsandMarkets, a B2B research and competitive intelligence firm that counts 80% of global
