Resource Library

Partial Attendee List for Border Expo Nov. 7-9, 2011

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Interviews

Combating Transnational Drug Trafficking
Drug Trafficking across U.S. borders is one of the most pressing issues facing the border community. In this IDGA exclusive, @DefenseInsider Chris Archer tackles some of these issues with Chris Isham, Director Plans & Policy, JIATF West. The following interview investigates many of the current challenges facing JIATF West, and highlights what’s being done to combat transnational organized crime within the Oceania Region.

Tussing1 From Enforcement to Economics: How the threats to Border Management Have Evolved
This interview features Professor Bert Tussing, Director, Homeland Defense and Security Issues, at the Center for Strategic Leadership Army War College. In Part one of this interview, IDGA’s @DefenseInsider, Chris Archer, explores the current state of affairs with regards to border management. This includes a focus on the various events that have exposed weaknesses in border defense, including renewed fears in light of the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Tussing2 Returning the Badges to the Border: Assessing Border Security
This interview features Professor Bert Tussing, Director, Homeland Defense and Security Issues, at the Center for Strategic Leadership Army War College. Part Two of this interview with IDGA’s @DefenseInsider Chris Archer, explores the main differences between border security and border defense. We also ask what initiatives are being applied within the DOD currently to support the Department of Homeland Security and primary agencies.

ragone Examining the Homeland Security Information Network
IDGA’s @DefenseInsider Chris Archer discusses the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) with Ray Ragone, Director of Mission Integration, HSIN, Department of Homeland Security. The interview explores the mission of the portal to improve interoperability between all levels of government across the nation. We also take a look at an example of how this has been used and what the future of the network will look like…

Featured Article

trijon-horse Trojan Horse
Cargo Security International Magazine recently published an article written by IDGA’s @DefenseInsider Chris Archer. To be published in the Oct/Nov online and print editions of the magazine, the article looks at the issues that will be discussed at the IDGA’s Border Management Conference & Technology Expo. ABSTRACT: The United States has 361 sea ports which act as vital links to the nation’s transport and trade network. Each port also represents a vulnerable target. Considering the amount of shipping containers that come into America’s ports, one single, obscure container, hidden among a ship’s cargo of several hundred just like it, could conceal dangerous cargo, a veritable ‘Trojan Horse’.

Past Border Management Conference Attendee Lists

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Past Border Management Conference Brochures

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Presentations

Interagency-Collaboration Interagency Collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities
By: FBI Biometrics Center of Excellence

Maximizing-Virtual Maximizing Virtual Infrastructures for Homeland Security Initiatives
By: Presented by: Richard Wheeler, President, Citrix

night-vision The Night Sentries: US Border Patrol Accelerates Operations with Night Vision Systems
This presentation features the Associate Chief for Enforcement in Information Technology at the US Border Patrol. Border management and control in the US require sustainable methods to facilitate observation of expansive border areas with little manpower.

Videos

video Maritime Border Security
Dimokritos Tziritis, Research Officer, Research and Development Unit, Frontex, discusses maritime border security. Tziritis describes how Frontex initiated a European surveillance system to detect targets early enough to enable the identification of the emergencies in order to give adequate help intercepting targets before they are able to hide or disappear at sea or on... view now

video US Customs and Border Protection - Air and Marine

Department of Homeland Security News

On the Border and in the Line of Fire: U.S. Law Enforcement, Homeland Security and Drug Cartel Violence

Testimony of Director Grayling G. Williams, Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement, before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management.

Are Our Nation's Ports Secure? Examining the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program

Testimony of Director of Prevention Policy Rear Admiral Kevin S. Cook, United States Coast Guard, before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Coast Guard Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request

Testimony of Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., Commandant, United States Coast Guard, before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.