https://www.hstoday.us/featured/how-artificial-intelligence-can-reshape-homeland-security-in-2024
An excerpt: “AI is a valuable tool for DHS due to the incredible volume of data and information collected, stored, and shared on a daily basis. DHS can use AI to extract actionable insights from these troves of information. In turn, the DHS workforce is better equipped to make informed decisions quickly, so issues are resolved promptly.”
From HSNW, This report from the National Academy of Sciences: MANAGED RETREAT; Proactively Planning for Community Relocation Before and After Climate Disasters
“Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually since 2018. As the frequency, intensity, and destructiveness of climate change-driven disasters increase, accompanied by an increase in recovery costs, more experts are calling for a managed retreat of entire communities from disaster-prone areas to safer ground”
From the WashPost: ‘We can do better’: FEMA makes sweeping changes to speed up disaster aid. Hearing frustrations from victims, the federal agency is drastically reforming its individual assistance program for the first time in 20 years. Here’s what that means….
FEMA is hosting a webinar series for the newly released Achieving Equitable Recovery: A Post-Disaster Guide for Local Officials and Leaders (“Equity Guide”).
Webinars will be held:
The goal of the Equity Guide is to help local officials and leaders incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (“DEIA”) in their post-disaster recovery management work. Successful disaster recovery requires the whole community to rebuild in a thoughtful, equitable, and resilient manner. This guide supports local officials and leaders in their efforts to build equity into the recovery process by establishing more diverse partnerships, conducting inclusive strategic public engagement, identifying needs of the whole community, leveraging mitigation opportunities, and identifying opportunities to help leverage additional funding opportunities.
The Equity Guide provides actionable steps and includes, checklists, toolkits, case studies, and community examples on how to incorporate equity throughout the recovery management process and how to work toward achieving equitable outcomes.
From HSToday this article re AI and Advanced TechCybersecurity
NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI Systems
Publication lays out “adversarial machine learning” threats, describing mitigation strategies and their limitations.
From CNN Business: World Economic Forum risks report sees a ‘global catastrophe’ within 10 years.
Another rather alarming forecast. For those of us concerned with recovery from disasters, it is best to be informed about what is coming.
From The Conversation: 2023’s billion-dollar disasters list shattered the US record with 28 big weather and climate disasters amid Earth’s hottest year on record.
From HSToday: PERSPECTIVE: The Evolving Cybersecurity Landscape in 2024
A look ahead at an important new field.
From NYC to D.C. and Beyond, Cities on the East Coast Are Sinking.
“Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year – a decline at the ocean’s edge that well outpaces global sea level rise. Particularly hard hit population centers such as New York City and Long Island, Baltimore, and Virginia Beach and Norfolk are seeing areas of rapid “subsidence,” or sinking land, alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing the risk to roadways, runways, building foundations, rail lines, and pipelines.”
Recovery Diva 