HOMELAND DEFENSE

& Security Digest

21 March 2023

HDIAC collects and publishes articles related to our technical focus areas on the web to share with the DoD community.

FEATURED ARTICLE

DoD Officials Testify About Homeland Defense Before House Panel

When Army Gen. Henry Knox became the nation’s first secretary of war in 1789, the primary mission of the War Department was simple:  Defend the United States of America. That is still the priority mission for Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III today, but the complexity has obviously increased, and the threats have multiplied….

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

Respiratory Protection for Military and Law Enforcement Professionals

1.0 TI Response Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center staff searched open sources and reached out to various contacts at federal regulatory establishments for any information regarding the standards in respiratory protection for law enforcement and military personnel. Depending on the jurisdiction of the agency, the following regulations were found: • 29 CFR part 1910.134 [1], “Respiratory Protection,” released by the Occupational Safety and…

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

Vulnerabilities to Food Security: Impacts on Military Readiness and National Security

The Food and Agriculture (FA) sector is designated as one of the 16 critical infrastructures that contribute to our economic stability and security.  Vulnerabilities to the FA sector pose a threat to food security, national security, and military readiness.  In this webinar, we review the findings of a state-of-the-art report in progress by HDIAC, which…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

2025 Advanced Functional Fabrics Summit

This event gathers Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) members and the greater ecosystem from across the United States each year at the Advanced Functional Fabric Summit. Attendees will learn about new advanced fiber and…

Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition

Explore the innovations that will help shape national security for the next century at NDIA’s flagship Emerging Technologies Conference! Hear directly from technology leaders in government, defense industry, the commercial sector, and academia on cutting-edge…

GridSecCon 2025

NERC, the E-ISAC, and WECC are cohosting the 14th annual Grid Security Conference, GridSecCon, from October 7-10 in Las Vegas. Join cyber and physical security leaders for four days of collaboration, networking, and expert training…

TechNet Indo-Pacific 2025

TechNet Indo-Pacific is the largest strategic event of its kind in the Indo-Pacific Rim. USINDOPACOM works closely with partners to enable resilient, survivable and secure collaboration across the spectrum of contingencies. TechNet Indo-Pacific, now in…

Voice From the Community

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William Eberle

Tennessee Tech University

William Eberle is a professor at Tennessee Tech University, with over 19 years of industry experience, most notably 10 years developing artifical intelligence/machinelearning models for anomaly detection in the telecommunications industry and 7
years working on defense-related projects, including flight simulators and missile defense systems. He has been working for the last 15 years in anomaly detection, developing new techniques for analyzing graph-based representations of data in domains such as terrorist networks, cargo shipments, network traffic, and telecommunications activities.

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