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U.S. House Passes Bill to Requiring FCC to Limit New Authorizations for Chinese Equipment, Prohibit Revocation

Security Industry Association

would require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt rules prohibiting “equipment authorization” for certain Chinese telecommunications and video surveillance equipment. 19, the FCC had published a proposed rule that would prohibit new authorizations for equipment considered part of the FCC’s “Covered List.”

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How FICAM Revisions Enable New Security Solutions in the Government Sector

Security Industry Association

For government facilities and civilian organizations alike, establishing an effective physical access control system (PACS) is a top priority. government facilities, though, designing a PACS that complies with the latest updates to Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 201-3 is of vital importance.

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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Disaster and Emergency Management Methods; Social Science Approaches in Application by Jason Rivera. for paperback.,

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Security Industry Association Forms Counter-UAS Working Group

Security Industry Association

The Biden administration has published a plan to address this concern, the Domestic Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems National Action Plan. “The evolution and maturity of commercial drone technology demand this attention.”

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Publisher : Routledge by Taylor and Francis Group London and New York. This does not sit well with indigenous or local populations (or at-risk populations) whose planning and decision-making mechanisms differ from those of Western governments.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Each chapter is written by (a) a different author(s). The discussions are based on many years of practical experience and/or research conducted by the authors. and government (a critique of FEMA disaster assistance programs).

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Covid-19 and the Disaster Research Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

So is the response by academic authors. In 2015 Gaillard and Gomez published an interesting paper on the "disaster research gold rush". Authors can write in haste and repent at their leisure: editors can rue the day. As I write, the Covid-19 pandemic is ramping up in many countries.

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