Historically, the federal government's role has been to provide assistance when local and state capabilities are overwhelmed.
Grant funds will help states enhance the integrity of driver's licenses (DL) and identification documents (ID), improve state issuance capabilities, as well as system security.
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The Administration has been trying to lull Congress and the American people with assertions that we would have a five-to-ten-year warning period if a rogue state decided to develop these capabilities.
Putting aside the holes in the GAO's "preliminary report", the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly observed that federal, state, and local response capabilities were overwhelmed by the size and scope of Hurricane Katrina.
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Microelectronics manufacturing capabilities including the latest state-of-the-art equipment needed to build custom computer chips and subminiature microwave devices.
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The state-of-the-art dynamic lighting system from PCK is unique to Empire State Building and allows customized light capabilities from a palette of over 16 million colors in limitless combinations along with effects previously not possible such as ripples, cross-fades, sparkles, chasers, sweeps, strobes and bursts.
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More recent analyses have made it clear that the United States is losing its monopoly on advanced military capabilities to states and non-state actors alike.
We do know that, just as they have over the course of history, new technologies will continue to change our quality of life, improving the state of mankind by giving us previously unthinkable capabilities.
As part of the CRI, the CDC and state public health personnel assess local emergency-management plans, protocols and capabilities for 72 Metropolitan Statistical Areas and four non-MSA large cities.
Xinhua quoted a State Council circular as saying that the regulations were meant to "safeguard state sovereignty" while promoting the "healthy development" of local information-gathering capabilities.
We have already acknowledged that Katrina revealed problems in national response capabilities, stretching back more than a decade, and demonstrated the need for more comprehensive federal, state, and local planning for catastrophic events.
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