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The Beginnings of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. Could this have been prevented? What if the terrorists had deployed bio-weapons, chemicals, or nukes?

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Security Industry Association Announces Winners of the 2023 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards

Security Industry Association

Harrison has supported OBIM (formerly US-VISIT) in numerous capacities over the years, including overstay analysis, watchlist adjudications and customer relations. She also spent a year at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as an information sharing officer in the Office of Privacy.

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How Data Storage Can Empower STEM Leaders to Dream Big

Pure Storage

National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001, has become a driving force of awareness and support for a wide range of projects and educational opportunities. . Pure provides large, rapid, and nimble data storage capacity that can scale as gene sequencing technology advances. The acronym, introduced by administrators at the U.S.

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Want to know the top three things that scare me?

Disaster Preparedness

I have been hearing of them working with and paying North Korea to develop them as far back as late 2001. It is estimated that it could take several years before the electrical grid could be repaired to full working capacity again. There has been evidence of again the Chinese developing a super-EMP weapon. Why it scares me?

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