U.S. to Unveil New Terror-Alert System for Home-Grown Threats
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson speaks at a Defense One 'leadership briefing' in Washington, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, on the agency's efforts to tackle growing terrorism threats in the U.S. and abroad.
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The U.S. will modify its warning system to alert citizens and companies about terrorist threats, replacing a two-tiered system with one it says is better suited to modern threats such as the attacks in California last week.
The challenge is to effectively communicate potential threats that are part of a new pattern of attacks by terrorists -- whether inspired or directed -- by foreign groups, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said at a conference in Washington Monday.