Secured requirement specification framework (SRSF).
INTRODUCTION Security is important in all aspects of life and the increasing pervasiveness and capability of information technology makes IT infrastructure security increasingly so (1). The continual and increasing publicity given to failures of IT security demonstrate the importance of developing and assuring software to appropriate levels...

The integration of network-based models for spill response and homeland security.
INTRODUCTION Many of the streams and rivers in the US are sources for drinking water. Water from these surface sources are processed and distributed through pipelines throughout cities and suburbs. Wastewater is gathered with a second set of pipelines and treated and with the rain waters that...

Global financial ministry on the way?
In the midst of the hubbub in Washington over the proposed $700 billion congressional bailout, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling are promoting a long-term international solution: a new global regime for managing the world's finances. In a speech to Labor...

Globalists push climate-change controls, open borders.
"John McCain has shown far more commitment to confronting climate change than Bush has, but his teaming up with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who doubts that climate change is man-made, should raise worries," say Michael A. Levi and Scott G. Borgerson of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), who...

Physics for future presidents: The Science Behind The Headlines.
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines Richard A. Muller [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The next president of the United States won't have a physics Ph.D.--but he will develop policy on physics-related matters. In this election year, Muller, a professor at...

Early this summer the intelligence community was also involved in discussions regarding the utility of staging attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan to disrupt the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Early this summer the intelligence community was also involved in discussions regarding the utility of staging attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan to disrupt the Taliban and al-Qaeda. A number of assessments based on possible scenarios all concluded that the outcome would be very bad if U.S. troops were to...

Majority of Americans Not Fearful of Terrorist Attack; A slim majority (52%) are satisfied with U.S. progress in the war on terrorism.
Byline: Lymari Morales Synopsis: Seven years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, only 38% of Americans are worried that they or a family member will become a victim of terrorism and about half (52%) are satisfied with U.S. efforts to battle the threat. ...

Terror risk: the next seven years: for now, the stalemate between the forces of radicalism and the coalition of moderate states assures a status quo, according to terrorism risk analysts. How long the equilibrium will last is anyone's guess.
Summary * With the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization providing a seven-year extension of a federal backstop for terrorism losses, carriers can decide how much capital they want to commit to terrorism insurance, the products they need to offer and the shape of the portfolio they wish...

Terrorism experts: increased risk for insurance industry.
Here are three dates when you might want to take a vacation deep into the countryside, not fly anywhere or hide under your bed: Nov. 4 and Jan. 20. Another big date, Aug. 8, just passed. Morbid kidding aside, a terrorism expert said the next big terrorist attack could...

Combat terrorism: Homeland Combatives course teaches devastatingly effective techniques.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If any of the passengers or crew members of the airplanes hijacked on 9/11 had been trained effectively in close-quarter combat, could the Twin Towers and the Pentagon--and the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives that day--have been saved? Homeland Combatives, an...