The twelfth annual IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST ’12), will be held 13 - 15 November in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. This conference brings together innovators from leading academic, industry, business, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, and government programs to provide a forum to discuss ideas, concepts, and experimental results.

Cyber Security,
Attack and Disaster Preparation, Recovery, and Response,
Land and Maritime Border Security,
Biometrics & Forensics.
We are currently seeking technical paper, poster and tutorial session submissions in each of the areas noted above. Submissions should focus on technologies with applications available for implementation within five years. All areas will cover the following common topics:

Strategy and threat characterization, CONOPs, risk analysis,
Modeling, simulation, experimentation, and training, and
Testbeds, standards and evaluations.