Strategic Response to Energy-Related Security Threats in the US Department of Defense

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleem H. Ali ◽  
Asim Zia ◽  
Rebecca Pincus
Keyword(s):  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Strategic Response ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals RAND Corporation: Robert Komer activities

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-196
Author(s):  
Alexander Ivanovich Lyozin
Keyword(s):  
Department Of Defense ◽  
The State ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
The Us ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Development Support ◽  
The U.S

RAND Corporation is a think tank in the USA. It is a corporation in which experts of different fields of science write analytical works devoted to that or other problem. RAND has strong authority in the USA. Many works on Vietnam were done by the state order of the USA (from the Ministry of Defense), including Robert Komers works (conducted by the request of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense). It is the research of this expert that is discussed in this paper. The paper looks at the biography of Robert Komer in the context from the conflict in Vietnam to cooperation with the RAND Corporation. In Vietnam, on the personal instructions of the US President Lyndon Johnson, Komer was the head of the program of appeasement or officially: the program of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS). Having completed his activities in Vietnam, Komer shared his experience and knowledge in reports for the RAND Corporation. His works are addressed to the problems of the counterpartisan war. The paper describes the work of Robert Komer in the framework of the RAND Corporation. In conclusion, the relevance is emphasized. Due to the events such as the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Komers activities in the implementation of the CORDS program in Vietnam have gained increased interest from many modern experts.

scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CYBERSECURITY TECHNOLOGIES ABROAD

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-177
Author(s):  
D.B. Izyumov ◽  
E.L. Kondratyuk
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
The Us ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Cloud Environments

The article discusses the concept of cybersecurity and its features, presents a list of US regulatory documents in the field of cyberspace and cybersecurity, as well as significant research and development work and programs in the field of development of cybersecurity technologies conducted by the Department of Advanced Research Projects of the US Department of Defense (DARPA). The most common foreign technologies used to protect computers, smart devices, routers, networks and cloud environments, as well as the main scientific and technological problems of the development of cybersecurity technologies, are summarized.

scholarly journals Residual Pesticide On Hesco® Blast Protection Wall In Temperate Florida Habitat Effective Against Mosquitoes, Stable Flies, and Sand Flies

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth C. Britch ◽  
Kenneth J. Linthicum ◽  
Robert L. Aldridge ◽  
Todd W. Walker ◽  
Mattie J. E. Rush ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Sand Flies ◽  
Integrated Vector Management ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Stable Flies ◽  
Blast Protection ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Vector Management ◽  
The Us ◽  
Residual Pesticide

ABSTRACT United States military troops in the field are exposed to the environment and are thus at high risk for transmission of arboviruses, and degradation of mission from continual harassment from insects. Passive vector control, such as application of residual insecticides to US military materials common in the field such as tents and camouflage netting, has been shown to be effective and can contribute to a successful integrated vector management (IVM) plan in the field to reduce this risk. However, other common US military field materials have not been evaluated with residual pesticides. In this study we conducted the first known investigation of the efficacy and longevity of a residual pesticide containing λ-cyhalothrin applied to HESCO® blast protection wall geotextile. We exposed treated material to a temperate Florida environment and found that this treatment can be effective against sand flies, filth-breeding flies, and mosquitoes for at least 6 wk. This study provides evidence that residual treatment of this US military material may be leveraged as an IVM component to enhance the US Department of Defense pest management system.

scholarly journals Transfluthrin Spatial Repellent on US Military Camouflage Netting Reduces Tabanids in a Warm-Temperate Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-215
Author(s):  
S. C. Britch ◽  
D. L. Kline ◽  
K. J. Linthicum ◽  
J. Urban ◽  
E. Dickstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Mechanical Transmission ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Field Environment ◽  
Spatial Repellent ◽  
The Us ◽  
Temperate Environment ◽  
Warm Temperate

ABSTRACT We investigated the capability of transfluthrin on US military camouflage netting to reduce collections of tabanid biting flies in a warm-temperate field environment on the Gulf Coast of Florida. We found that transfluthrin significantly reduced collections of a variety of medically and veterinarily important tabanids inside protected areas by up to 96% upon initial treatment and up to 74% after 20 days posttreatment. These results suggest that transfluthrin could be an effective element in the US Department of Defense integrated pest management system and leveraged in civilian scenarios to protect livestock and humans from potential mechanical transmission of pathogens and disruption of activities caused by painful bites.

Unique Features of the US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Concussion Clinics

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 402-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Lee ◽  
Walter M. Greenhalgh ◽  
Paul Sargent ◽  
Heechin Chae ◽  
Scott Klimp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Department Of Defense ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Biotypologies of Terrorism

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Pugliese
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
International Association ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Suicide Bombers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Chiefs Of Police ◽  
The Military

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) document, ‘Training Keys #581: Suicide (Homicide) Bombers: Part 1,’ is designed to assist law enforcement authorities in the pre-emptive capture of prospective suicide bombers. In this essay, Pugliese focuses on the training key to examine the manner in which essentialised biotypologies are mobilised and reproduced within the context of the so-called ‘war on terror.’ The use of biotypologies by both the military and law enforcement agencies reproduces a disciplinary biopolitical regime premised on normative conceptualisations of race, gender and bodily behaviour. Pugliese discusses these regimes in the context of the US Department of Defense and its advocacy of ‘identity dominance’ through the development of new technologies such as gait signature biometrics. Situated in this context, he shows how biotypologies of targeted subjects are instrumental in fomenting cultural panics concerning the Arab and/or Muslim and/or figure ‘of Middle Eastern appearance’.

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