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Subject: [Homeland_security] Daily News 09/12/02
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:14:18 -0500
From: "NIPC Watch" <nipcwatch@private>
To: "Homeland Security" <homeland_security@private>

Homeland Security: High Tech Starts Kicking In

Despite agonizing delays, money is flowing at last to fund the bold
proposals for bolstering security

Shortly after the World Trade Center came crashing down, a contingent
of
tech industry heavyweights, including Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ ) Carly
Fiorina, AOL Time Warner's (AOL ) Steve Case, and AT&T's (T ) C.
Michael
Armstrong, flew to Washington to meet with Administration officials.
And
during the following 12 months, 100 or so tech leaders held a flurry
of
follow-up meetings with the White House and the Defense Dept. The
subject at
hand: how best to marshal the strongest ideas from Silicon Valley in
the new
war against terrorism. Business Week 9/10/02
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_37/b3799608.htm

GIS Plays Key Role In Homeland Security; 'Smart' Digital Mapping
Databases
Springing Up Throughout States

The war against terrorism is being fought on many fronts and in many
parts
of the world. And at the state and local levels in the U.S., the war
is
being waged at least partially in cyberspace with the help of
geographic
information systems (GIS) technology.

The city of Boston, for example, has initiated a pilot project called
the
Boston Preparedness Pilot that is tapping into the digital mapping and
smart
database expertise of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).
The
Boston pilot stems from a larger nationwide program known as the "120
Cities
Project," the goal of which is to disseminate what Anita Cohen,
director of
homeland security at NIMA, calls "a minimum level of geospatial
preparedness" down to state and local emergency responders.

By DAN VERTON SEPTEMBER 09, 2002
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,74071,00.
html
ComputerWorld

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