Posts Tagged ‘color-coded’

• HSPD 3 scrapped

  • February 12th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, color-coded, Homeland Security Presidential Directive, HSPD 3, National Terrorism Advisory System, NTAS, security, Threat Advisory System

  And just like that, the color-coded terrorist warning system has gone away. Actually, it wasn’t quite that abrupt. This article notes that the threat warning levels formulated in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 3 (HSPD 3) was used less and less during the past few years. Although the threat level changed 16 times since its 2002 introduction, two recent attempted attacks passed without a change in the threat level.