In a forthcoming Brookings volume (Protecting the American Homeland, by Michael O’Hanlon, Peter Orszag, Ivo Daalder, Mac Destler, David Gunter, Robert Litan, and James Steinberg), we propose a homeland security strategy to deter extremely destructive terrorist attacks. The standard we set for focusing homeland security efforts is the prevention of those attacks that would involve the loss of th...

Homeland security field deals with diverse subjects, audio processing, video surveillance, image detection, geolocation determination, and cyber attack detection. Audio processing and video surveillance area are significant for public places safety and land border area. However the big threat for homeland security is cyber attacks. Cyber terror attacks and cyber crime attacks may move over virt...

The overall objective of the research reported here is to help the Army understand a new mission area called homeland security. To achieve this, the research had the following principal, more instrumental, objectives. They were to (1) characterize the range of threats that need to be considered; (2) provide a methodology for homeland security; (3) delineate Army responsibilities; (4) describe a...