The long-haul, heavy-duty truck transportation industry in the United States is experiencing a national shortage of 20,000 truck drivers, the American Trucking Associations reported in its newly released U.S. Truck Driver Shortage Analysis and Forecasts. Read More…
From the Office for Domestic Preparedness U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, DC
ODP Information Bulletin
No. 176 June 13, 2005
The Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness (SLGCP) has received a number of applications for the FY05 Port Security Grant (PSG) Program that have not used the required document naming conventions for the program narrative, project plan(s), and project budget(s) files. As a result, SLGCP is issuing this bulletin to emphasize the required naming conventions that applicants must use when submitting documents to the Grants Management System (GMS) for the FY05 PSG Program.
On Section IV (page 12), and again in Appendix A (page D-1), of the FY05 PSG Program application kit, it is stated that: “Applicants must use the naming convention below when uploading the program narrative, project plans, and budgets. Refer to Appendix D for the appropriate abbreviations for the COTP Zones.”
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All crises begin and end locally. Even given the national impact of the
World Trade Center destruction, the event required extensive and
sustained local resources and personnel. As local institutions, community colleges need to know how to manage crisis situations. They are the ideal source
for training first responders and leaders in crisis management. Read more…
As co-chairman of the 2002 Congressional inquiry into the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Sen. Bob Graham heard firsthand how a shortage of Arabic-speaking analysts had contributed to intelligence failures in the FBI and the CIA. So when his Senate colleagues were crafting an intelligence-reform bill two years later, Mr. Graham asked them to include language authorizing a new scholarship program for students who would commit to a career with the intelligence agencies.
The scholarships, the Florida Democrat argued, would help the agencies recruit more speakers of Arabic, Farsi, and other Middle Eastern languages. The chairmen of the intelligence committees in the Senate and the House of Representatives agreed, and legislation creating the scholarships was signed into law by President Bush in December. The funds followed quickly, and a pilot program is set to begin next year. It is unclear how much money is available because the appropriation was included in the classified section of a defense-spending bill. (more…)
Anti-Nuke Screening Devices to be installed in LA this summer
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff today announced that the nation’s busiest seaports — Los Angeles/Long Beach, California — will have complete Radiation Portal Monitor (RPM) coverage by year’s end. Three terminal locations, at Piers 400, 300 and Trans Pacific, within the Port of Los Angeles are scheduled to go on-line by the end of June. A total of ninety RPMs, which will screen all international container traffic and vehicles exiting the facility for nuclear materials or hidden sources of radiation, will be operational by December 2005. (more…)
The Preparedness and Response to Agricultural Terrorism course provides community planners as well as those in the food production chain, who would be among the first to note the effects of an attempted attack on the nation’s food supply, with information to identify and recruit individuals in a unique position to identify potential threats to the cultivation, production, processing, transportation, or distribution of the nation’s food supply. Key members of community planning teams include supervisors dealing with food production, transportation, delivery, final distribution and emergency planners from state and local governments would benefit from this course. The min/max enrollment is 40 participants; course length is three 8 hour days. (more…)
In the 10 months since Project BioShield was signed into law, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded three contracts worth about $1 billion for vaccines and countermeasures for the national stockpile. Nearly all of that money will be spent on a vaccine for anthrax. The government is also once again turning its eye to the threat of smallpox, issuing a new request for proposals (RFP) earlier this month for delivery of 20 million doses of a new smallpox vaccine. (more…)
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