Published on Feb 15, 2013 by PBS NewsHour. (Time: 9:35) Among the initiatives launched by President Obama in his State of the Union address was a compressive cyber security plan. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano talks with Ray Suarez about combating the growing threat of cyber attacks and the top three countries poised to launch cyber…
David Sandalow, acting undersecretary at U.S. Department of Energy, warns of possible threats to the country’s energy grid, drawing examples from Hurricane Sandy and the Super Bowl power outage. He spoke at the Clean-Tech Investor Summit in Palm Springs, California on February 6, 2013. Published by ForaTV. (Time: 4:22)
On Saturday January 12 Ambassador Henry Cooper, Chairman of High Frontier spoke on the existential threat of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and the fact that Congress is not protecting the American Public as they are required to do under the Constitution. You want to listen to this entire lecture, then get engaged at www.HighFrontier.org — be…
H.R. 4273 Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act of 2012. Bill was passed by the House on August 1, 2012 and referred to the Senate, where it died in committee. This bill was re-introduced as H.R. 271 on Jan 15, 2013 and passed the House on May 22, 2013. Both bills were introduced by Rep….
Crumbling roads and bridges and a flickering power grid - America’s infrastructure is creaking - and it’s becoming a BIG problem. And even though Mother Nature’s played a hand in wrecking supplies recently, the government is earmarking money for almost anything other than energy, as Marina Portnaya explains. Published on Jan 13, 2013 by RT.
Published on Jan 8, 2013 by The Big Picture RT. F. Michael Maloof, former security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense & author of EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe, joins Thom Hartmann. When it comes to national security - all the talk right now is about preventing nuclear war….
Introduction by Chuck Manto, National EMP SIG Chairman: Chuck Manto, opens the conference with an overview of InfraGard, the EMP SIG and the Dupont Summit. He introduces the topic of high-impact threats by discussing the emotional and economic difficulty of addressing large-scale disasters. He makes the comparison to Hurricane Sandy in that while we may…
Dr. Richard Andres, National Defense University, talks about the difficulty of preparing for high-impact grid threats. (Time: 28:31) From the Dupont Summit December 7, 2012: Dr. Richard Andres, Energy Security Program Chair of NDU, was the lead host of the first comprehensive contingency planning on a nationwide collapse of infrastructure in October 2011 with InfraGard,…
December 7, 2012. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry Discusses the efforts to protect the country from electromagnetic pulse (EMP) in a presentation titled: “EMP action. Too little too late?” (Time 11:38) From the Dupont Summit, December 7, 2012. EMP Action, Too Little Too Late? by, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director of the Task Force on…
“Local Planning and Mitigation for High Impact Threats” by Mary Lasky, Howard County Community Emergency Response Network: Chair of the Howard County Community Emergency Response Network. Dupont Summit, December 7, 2012. Mary Lasky spoke on local leadership’s role in enhancing local sustainability in light of these high-impact threats to critical infrastructure. She heads the office…
