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Future Homeland Security Needs: Will We Be Ready?

These University of Maryland experts are available to discuss future U.S. homeland security needs, as well as the current status of homeland security, national security implications of the Katrina disaster response and the effects of national security reorganization.

Among future security needs:

  • Training of intelligence analysts to meet expected shortages and to create a culture that will help overcome barriers to inter-agency sharing of intelligence (see Nolte and Gansler below)
  • Developing new technology to improve port security (Lucyshyn and Gabriel)
  • Developing better understanding of terrorist psychology and organization (see LaFree and Kruglanski below)

  • Facing Nuclear and Bioterrror Threats (see Steinbruner, Gallagher, Leitenberg below)
  • The experts may be contacted directly (see alphabetically listed entries below). Or contact Neil Tickner in media relations: 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours); ntickner@umd.edu.


    Number of experts found: 17

     
    Linda Aldoory

    Associate Professor

    Communication

    Expertise Key Words:
    Health and terror risk communication, women and media.

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 6528

    laldoory@umd.edu

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    I .M. Destler

    Professor

    School of Public Policy

    Expertise Key Words:
    International security and U.S. foreign policy; homeland security agency reorganization; National Security Council; International trade.

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    Home phone    

    Cell phone          

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 6357
    202-328-9000

    703 759 0588

    703.408.3447

    mdestler@umd.edu

    Show all information about I .M. Destler

    Kenneth A. Gabriel

    Senior Research Scholar, Program Manager

    Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise

    Expertise Key Words:
    Port security technology; integrated security logistics for defense and homeland security (including port and border security, rapid response and recovery operations in natural and man-made disasters); integrated weapon system supply chain optimization to improve military readiness and reduce costs

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 9702

    egabriel@umd.edu

    Show all information about Kenneth A. Gabriel

     
    Nancy W. Gallagher

    Research Director

    Center for International Security Studies at Maryland

    Expertise Key Words:
    Nuclear policy, arms control, verification, global security

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 7610

    ngallag@umd.edu

    Show all information about Nancy W. Gallagher

     
    Jacques S. Gansler

    Professor; Vice President for Research

    Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise

    Expertise Key Words:
    Advanced homeland security and defense technology; defense supply-chain; defense industries; government acquisition

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 4794

    jgansler@umd.edu

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    Arie W. Kruglanski

    Distinguished University Professor

    Psychology

    Expertise Key Words:
    Co-directs National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored center of excellence based at Maryland).

    The psychology of terrorism; terrorist motivations; terror group dynamics; suicide terrorists; decision to use violence.

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    Home phone    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 5918

    301 984 1130

    arie@psyc.umd.edu

    Show all information about Arie W. Kruglanski

     
    Steven Kull

    Director

    Program on International Policy Attitudes

    Expertise Key Words:
    U.S. and international public opinion; conducts international polling; leader in compiling and analyzing global public opinion data; expert in foreign policy issues

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    202 232 7500

    skull@umd.edu
    skull@pipa.org

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    Gary D. LaFree

    Dir. and Prof.

    START (Natl. Consortium Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism)

    Expertise Key Words:
    Trends in terrorism; terror statistics; using behavioral science to combat terror; national and international crime trends; directs National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security-sponsored center of excellence based at Maryland); Webcam.

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    Cell phone          

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 6655

    301 518 2491

    glafree@msn.com
    glafree@start.umd.edu

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    Milton Leitenberg

    Senior Research Scholar

    Center for International Security Studies at Maryland

    Expertise Key Words:
    Biological and chemical weapons; arms control

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    Home phone    

    E-mail(s)    

    301-405-7605

    301-340-3049

    mleitenb@umd.edu

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    William Lucyshyn

    Dir. of Research and Senior Research Scholar

    Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise (School of Public Policy)

    Expertise Key Words:
    Logistics for homeland security and military applications; information security; government outsourcing, privatization, and competitive sourcing

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 8257

    lucyshyn@umd.edu

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    Hani S. Mahmassani

    Charles Irish Sr. Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Md. Transp. Initiative

    Civil & Environmental Engineering

    Expertise Key Words:
    Intelligent transportation systems; evacuation planning (hurricanes, terrorism); real-time routing and tracking of freight, traffic estimation and prediction; transport system modeling and optimization; transportation infrastructure engineering; transportation behavior (bicycle / telecommuting).

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 0752

    masmah@umd.edu

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    Aaron W. Mannes

    Faculty Research Assistant

    Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

    Expertise Key Words:
    Terrorism, Middle East politics, Homeland Security, North Korea and its designation as a terror sponsoring nation

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 314 4427
    301 314 6607

    amannes@umd.edu
    awmannes@comcast.net

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    Susan Moeller

    Associate Professor

    Philip Merrill College of Journalism and School of Public Policy

    Expertise Key Words:
    Media coverage of international affairs; media coverage of war, violence, conflict and disasters; media coverage of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD); how photographic images shape attitudes toward war; compassion fatigue; human/civil rights and the media.

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    Home phone    

    Cell phone          

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 2419

    301 565 9510

    240 472 4166

    smoeller@jmail.umd.edu

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    David M. Mosser

    Prof/Institute Dir.

    Maryland Pathogen Research Institute;Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

    Expertise Key Words:
    Biodefense, Bioterrorism, immunity, vaccines, infectious diseases, pathogen detection, microbiology

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 314 2594

    dmosser@umd.edu

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    William M. Nolte

    Research Professor

    School of Public Policy

    Expertise Key Words:
    Intelligence and National Security; Intelligence and Homeland Security; The Ethics of Intelligence; Congress and the American Intelligence Community

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 3331

    wnolte@umd.edu

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    George H. Quester

    Professor

    Government & Politics

    Expertise Key Words:
    Professor of government and politics, University of Maryland; National security, international military and security policy; John M. Olin Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy.

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    E-mail(s)    

    301 405 4146

    gquest@umd.edu

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    John D. Steinbruner

    Director, Center for International Security Studies at Maryland

    School of Public Policy

    Expertise Key Words:
    Iraq violence:International security, arms control, nuclear weapons proliferation, managing bioterror risk, Russia, Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin.

    Contact Information:

    Work phone(s)    

    Home phone    

    E-mail(s)    

    301-405-4578

    202-244-9142

    jsteinbr@umd.edu

    Show all information about John D. Steinbruner




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