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.
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
Haystax Product Update: Streamlined Data, Photo and File Management
The Haystax software development team has rolled out a number of exciting new features designed to make data, photo and file management easier and faster across several Haystax Analytics Platform
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
Towards a More Holistic Approach to Managing School Safety Risk
The February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida continues to cast a long shadow across the national school community. Many state legislatures have passed measures
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
