Featured Article: Defining “Surety” Within the Interagency

● ehill ● June 26, 2019 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Defining “Surety” Within the Interagency by Punna Khanna Hayes The fundamental differences between nuclear weapons, chemical agents, and biological select agents and toxins (BSAT) and the different ways in which interagency personnel interact with these materials necessitate different variations in protocols for their handling. These differences and handling… Read More

Featured Article: The Looming Crisis in Afghan Local Government

● ehill ● February 7, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: The Looming Crisis in Afghan Local Government by Daniel R. Green While much of the debate about the war in Afghanistan focuses on troop levels and the pace of the drawdown, a similar reduction of the U.S. civilian interagency may have more far-reaching consequences. Although located primarily in… Read More

Featured Article: Securing the U.S. Food Supply…

● ehill ● November 15, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Securing the U.S. Food Supply: The Quintessential Interagency Task by Cindy A. Landgren The general public puts little thought into the vast, interconnected infrastructure that constitutes the fabric of life in the U.S. Nevertheless, large segments of that infrastructure are susceptible to failure—potentially even catastrophic failure—through both accidental… Read More

Featured Article: Interagency Approaches to Reduce Agroterrorism Threats

● ehill ● November 8, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Closing the Barn Door: Interagency Approaches to Reduce Agroterrorism Threats by David F. Grieco Despite billions of dollars spent in the U.S. on national defense, one key area has been historically overlooked. In the twenty-first century, perhaps the greatest national security threat requiring careful interagency coordination is not… Read More

InterAgency Journal 6-2 (Spring 2015)

● ehill ● May 20, 2015 ● InterAgency Journal (IAJ) ● 2 comments

Inside this issue: Features Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Interagency by John Mark Mattox Cape Ray Diplomacy: How a U.S. Merchant Vessel Took Center Stage in Foreign Relations by Chi K. Cheung Improving the Intelligence Community’s Contribution to Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction by Timothy W. Fisher Closing the… Read More

Multi-agency exercise prepares for nuclear incident

● ehill ● May 18, 2015 ● IA News ● No Comments

In early May, the Department of Defense hosted a multi-agency exercise to prepare agency experts to respond to home-grown terrorists and a nuclear incident...

Partnerships essential to bio threat prevention

● ehill ● September 10, 2012 ● IA News ● No Comments

Greg Delawie, State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, recently spoke about the need for partnerships in addressing biological threats and biodefense, including biological weapons and infectious disease...

Aging air tankers undermine interagency efforts

● ehill ● March 30, 2012 ● IA News ● No Comments

Recent reports have raised concerns about the U.S. Forest Service's aging fleet of air tankers, which has dwindled to just 11 air tankers. The shrinking fleet may undermine interagency agreements...

IAP 1(October 2010)- Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Advisor Projects in Afghanistan

● mhwiggins ● November 10, 2010 ● InterAgency Papers (IAP) ● No Comments

by Karisha Kuypers, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and
Professor David A. Anderson, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

To assist the nation in rebuilding its agricultural economy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has provided advisors who have worked on Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Based largely on their end-of-tour reports, this paper examines and evaluates the challenges, successes, and modes of interaction of USDA advisors with their PRT and Afghan colleagues and concludes with recommendations for the future.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)