Ryan is a little bit more like Matt Damon's Jason Bourne, but also like Claire Danes's character in Homeland, less macho, more cerebral and analytical – he's faced with a creepy Homeland-type sleeper cell on US soil: it's not al-Qaida though, but an old-fashioned threat from the Russkies.
Philips says there's huge biometric potential for use by homeland security types to identify people or to replace credit cards, since no two vein structures are alike.
Previously, SAIC was involved in homeland security-type contracts ranging from designing luggage inspection machines to cleaning up the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1980 and investigating the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
"At this time, we know of no specific or credible threats of an attack on the U.S. homeland of the type that occurred in Paris tonight," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement.
Last month, he made a success of the Festival of Mongolia, a New York celebration of his homeland that diplomatic types did not expect to draw 25,000 people, as it already has in total.
It falls under the type 'transplanted homeland politics', which occurs when homeland conflicts enter the receiving country (for the typology see Koopmans et al. 2005, pp. 126 7).
An administration official added, "The puzzle pieces were not being fitted to any type of homeland plot".
This well-bred colt has shown good speed in decent company in his homeland and looks the type to relish a big field and strong pace on faster going.
Now, the impending return of some 3.5m displaced southerners to their ravaged homelands threatens a new type of trouble.
Among the controls, gender, age, occupation, origin and home links have significant effects on either or both types of homeland engagement.
Any SEC action in this regard should focus disclosures on the types of homeland security information that would be most valuable to the companies themselves (engaging management on these issues), to investors (ensuring true security of their investments) and to the nation (improving homeland security).
