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Breakfast Session

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: FA1
• Duncan, Stephen M; Coomber, Patricia
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Risk Management for Trrorist Threats

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: FB1
• Zimet, Elihu
• Risk management for Homeland and National Security involves the calculus of funding preventative systems andd procedures based upon potential threat likelihood and consequences. ...

Automation to Support Risk Assessment and Management at DHS

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: FB2
• Dennis, Stephen
• DHS is pursuing a portfolio of research and development projects known as the Threat Assessment Portfolio, conducting a range of cross-cutting analytic automation research to address...

Force Protection Sensor Technology in an Asymmetrical World

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: FC1
• Jennings, Mike
• This paper addresses on ongoing material solutions for a deployable flyaway suite force protection system. This suite is a force multiplier for forces currently performing force...

Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance for Border Patrol

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: FC2
• von Berg, Dale C Linne
• Existing and emerging electro-optical, infrared, and hyperspectral sensor technologies show great promise for enabling the development and development of real-time airborne systems...

Imaging at Terahertz Frequencies

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: FC3
• Rosker, Mark
• Despite a century of research, the terahertz (1012 Hz) still remains the most immature and underutilized part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This talk will discuss the emerging...

Congressional Perspective

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: KN1
• McCaul, Michael
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Administration Perspective, DOD's Role in Homeland Security and Defense

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: KN2
• Verga, Peter
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Keynote Presentation: Risk Management with Case Studies Toward Homeland Security: Guiding Principles for Risk Assessment and aManagement with Case Studies

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: KN3
• Haimes, Yacov Y
• Systems-based definitions of risk, vulnerability, threat, intent, and capability--that build on the centrality of the state-space theory to the homeland as a system--are introduced...

Optical Wireless Surveillance and Access Control Network

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P1
• Le, Han Q; Wang, Yang; Wang, Yi; Manapuram, Ravikiran; Hu, Bian
• A low-cost design of an optical wireless network of multiple transmitters and receivers based on the CDMA-architecture for perimeter surveillance and access control and is described....

Passive MWS for Transport Aircraft

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P10
• Danino, Meir
• Passive Missile Warning Systems (MWS) detects the radiation emitted by the hot plume of the missile. Analysis of Mid Infra Red (MIR) band (3-5 micron) vs. the Solar Blind Ultra...

Low Cost Passive Remote Sensor of Chemicals for Expendable UAVs

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P11
• Zehr, Robert T; Holland, Stephen K; Lewin, Greg C; Laufer, Gabriel
• An inexpensive passive remote sensor of weapon and toxic industrial chemicals is developed for expendable UAVs. Detection and identification are achieved by a "cross-reactive" sensor...

Detection of Trace Organics and Bacteria Endospores in Water Using UV Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF)

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P12
• Makoui, Anali; Sharikova, Anna; Killinger, Dennis
• Monitoring water contamination and trace species is of great importance. Our lab has developed two highly sensitive LIF detection systems currently used to detect traces of bacteria...

Alkali Lasers for Homeland and National Security

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P13
• Knize, Randall; Zhdanov, Boris; Ehrenreich, Thomas
• Alkali vapor lasers show the promise of demonstrating diffraction limited high power in the near and mid IR. These lasers could be used for missile defense and for protection from...

Human characterization and tracking using pyroelectric sensors

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P14
• Feller, S D; Burchett, J B; Hao, Qi; Fang, Jian-Shuen; Shankar, M; Guenther, B D; Brady, D J
• A network of common pyroelectric motion sensors that can track and identify human targets has been developed using low-cost, commercially available components. Significantly cheaper...

REAL: High-power, eye-safe, scanning lidar for aerosol cloud detection and tracking

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P15
• Mayor, Shane D; Spuler, Scott M
• The Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL) is well-suited for detection and tracking of otherwise invisible aerosol clouds in urban areas.

Fiber Keying for Optical Network Intrusion Monitoring

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P2
• Soller, Brian J; Froggatt, Mark E; Gifford, Dawn K; Wolfe, Matt S
• We describe a technique by which the Rayleigh scatter signature of optical fiber can be used as a key to monitor the security of a fiber network.

A Real-Time Distributed Fiber Strain Sensor for Long-Distance Perimeter Intruder Detection

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P3
• Geng, Jihong; Zou, Yunlu; Staines, Sean; Blake, Mike; Jiang, Shibin
• A real-time distributed fiber sensor is described, which is based on Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry using our propriety fiber laser technology. The sensor offers...

Ultra-Sensitive Remote Fiber Sensing by Radio-Frequency Current Modulation of a Diode Laser

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P4
• Chow, Jong H; Littler, Ian C; McClelland, David E; Gray, Malcolm B
• We present long-range interferometric remote fiber sensing, demonstrating unprecedented picostrain sensitivity over a broad acoustic frequency range, by simultaneously overcoming...

Terahertz and MM Properties of Textiles

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• Optical Solutions for Homeland and National Security (OSHS) 2005 paper: P5
• Dougherty, Joseph P; Rapach, Charles; Visnansky, Andrew; Jubic, Gregory
• We will report on terahertz absorbtion and reflective properties of some common textiles. The terahertz properties will be compared with infrared data.