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Over the past decade the United States has made efforts in keeping food safe for the consumer. Specifically by enacting the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic act.1 Since nearly 80% of food supply in the U.S is controlled by the FDA,1 preventable problems arise daily including food-borne illnesses and contaminated food. Shortly after these reoccurring events, consumers convinced congress to put into…

The United States transportation industry is one of the largest consumer markets. The market domains within the transportation industry are major contribution to the continual expansion of the industry. The transportation business is massive, incorporating everything from metropolitan transport, train systems and buses that people use to commute back and forth to work and school, from the rail and trucking systems that transport products nationwide and ships that move products from port to port…

National Security Act of 1947 stated “…No United States intelligence information may be provided to the United Nations or any organization affiliated with the United Nations...” Briefly defend this position from an ethical perspective. Whenever the National Security Act of 1947 were precisely constituted, it would have been addressed the National Subversives Security Act since it constituted the administrative model for revolutionists to the United States. Constitution and our nation to…

Crime data, crimes committed in the United States and the data collected of those crimes, are collected by two major systems and sources: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, which is also known as the UCR/NIBRS Program, and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) headed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The UCR/NIBRS Program This national system of uniform crime statistic (UCR) data collection was developed in 1930, and it the main source…

Next the paper will examine whether the national organizational structure tasked with cyber operations needs to be reorganized and subsequently require a change to the United States Code (USC). Finally, the paper will discuss that if a reorganization is required, which agency should be in charge of cyber security for the United States. Cyber Geography The emergence of the cyber domain has been uniquely different than the traditional domains of air, land, and maritime. Theories about both…

challenges of climate change. The first year, my panel was in the hotel across the street. Then we were moved to the main hotel, but up in the attic. And then this year, we were on the main-stage, in prime time with three current or former heads of state. Our allies are around the world are taking the threat of climate change more and more seriously. The one place that isn’t, is here, in the U.S.…

nuclear and high yield explosives. We will discuss the creation of the organization, the Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO), the DTRA reach back capabilities and the In the mid 1990’s, terroristic attacks became an issue of the Department of Defense. Acts of terrorism were occurring all over the world. These attacks like from the bombing of the World Trade Center…

The compositional dichotomy of virtual space creates a dynamic that, among other things, can cause states to lack a unified language and vision of virtual warfare. A large part of this division is driven from their divergent interests and relative power. An anecdote of this was showcased at the Budapest Conference on Cyberspace (2012) as well as the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai (2012), when both conferences were back-to-back episodes of continual disagreements…

and accounting arm of the Department of Defense, therefore, it is a federal government agency. Located around the globe, DFAS has over 12,000 employees. The majority of employees work at one of the five primary sites located in Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Rome, New York; or Limestone, Maine. Additionally, there are satellite offices in Texarkana, Europe, and Japan as well as pay offices located at 38 military bases across the United States.…

Natanz nuclear facility (Hayden, 2016). Decreasing enrichment efficiency by approximately 30%, this was the first instance of a cyber version of August 1945 when the United States decided to drop two nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima (Holloway, 2015). Without losing a single soldier on the battlefield, a (speculated) nation-state was able to set back Iranian nuclear efforts for years, sending a strong signal to Tehran and the rest of the world that cyberspace is open for…