Peer into the Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team (USERT) toolbox to see how everyday items and specialized equipment help the team process a scene.
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FBI’s Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team, Part 3
This is the third part of a series giving you an inside look at USERT—from its rigorous training to the tools of the trade.
Do Targeted Killings Weaken Terrorist Groups?
8/8/22 TERRORISM Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments It has become a ritual: U.S. intelligence locates a terrorist leader, who is then killed either in an air strike or a special operations raid. read more
NSF Grants to Protect Data, User privacy
8/8/22 CYBERSECURITY Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Indiana University researchers are working on two new cybersecurity projects, recently funded by the National Science Foundation, to ensure trustworthy cloud computing and increase computing privacy for marginalized and vulnerable populations. read more
How Polio Crept Back into the U.S.
8/8/22 PUBLIC HEALTH Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments About a month ago, British health authorities announced they’d found evidence suggesting local spread of polio in London. It was a jolt, to be sure. The country was declared polio-free in 2003. read more
An AI Pilot May Be Able to Navigate Crowded Airspace
8/8/22 AI Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University believe they have developed the first AI pilot that enables autonomous aircraft to navigate a crowded airspace. The artificial intelligence can safely avoid collisions, predict the intent of other aircraft, track aircraft and coordinate with their actions, and communicate over the radio with Read More >
Artificial Intelligence Isn’t That Intelligent
8/8/22 AI Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Late last month, Australia’s leading scientists, researchers and businesspeople came together for the inaugural Australian Defense Science, Technology and Research Summit (ADSTAR), hosted by the Defense Department’s Science and Technology Group. read more
FBI: Al-Qaida Determined to Strike at US Despite Leader’s Killing
8/5/22 TERRORISM Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday that he remains worried about the potential for a large-scale attack planned or inspired by al-Qaida despite the killing of its top leader in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan last weekend. Both al-Qaida and the Islamic State as well as Read More >
Why Are Nuclear Weapons So Hard to Get Rid Of? Because They’re Tied Up in Nuclear Countries’ Sense of Right and Wrong
8/4/22 NUCLEAR WEAPONS Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Every five years, the nearly 200 member states of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons meet to review their progress – or lack thereof. After being postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the monthlong conference is now meeting in New York and opened with a stark warning. read more
Origins of Unconventional War
8/4/22 UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPONS Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. In this riveting history of the origins of unconventional war, Adrienne Mayor shows that cultures around the world have used biological and chemical Read More >