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China's Military Aid Is Probably Less Than You Think

The Rand Blog

The first comprehensive assessment of Chinese military aid shows that China's $560 million total during 2013-2018 pales in comparison to the U.S. China strategic competition. total of over $35 billion in the same period. This should offer advantages in the intensifying U.S.-China

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2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards Profile: Gena Alexa

Security Industry Association

2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards winner Gena Alexa is the CEO of Dignari, LLC, which she founded in 2013 to provide program strategy, human-centered design, emerging technology and data analytics services to the federal government. The success of WHTI led to Alexa’s promotion as vice president responsible for all CBP solutions.

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IT Agility Delivered: Future-ready Storage Solutions to Meet Enterprise Data Growth

Pure Storage

Major generational FlashArray upgrades have included: In 2013, upgrading from our original FlashArray FA300 to the FA400, including swapping the controller chassis. While Pure Storage customers have rightly come to expect this kind of upgrade from us, it’s unique in the storage industry.

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

Security Industry Association

She spent over eight years in the biometrics field focused on quality assurance, information security and quality processes and has led a variety of projects, including the implementation and certification of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System and ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System (ISMS) for NEC Advanced Recognition Systems.

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Sustainability Reporting Accelerator

Advancing Analytics

Since 1 October 2013 the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013 have required all UK quoted companies to report on greenhouse gas emissions as part of their annual Directors' Report.

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Security Industry Association Names Martha Entwistle as 2023 SIA Progress Award Honoree

Security Industry Association

She has worked in the security industry since 2005, first as a business journalist and more recently as a strategic communications and media relations professional for global security companies. She serves on the SIA WISF Steering Committee and is chair of the WISF Scholarship Committee.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). The need to include military strategy and the strategic politics of defence in our studies would unbalance them. Why, then, do we not include it in disaster studies per se? Alexander, D.