Homeland Defense

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
HD
Pronunciation
/ˈhoʊmˌlænd dɪˈfɛns/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
Military

Examples in Context

  1. It has become possible to envision a new paradigm by which a large group of wireless nodes can participate in tasks such as high-rate mobile multimedia data transfer, environmental sensing and sampling, homeland security and defense, and health monitoring.
  2. Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the fbi, the cia, the homeland security, and the Department of defense to develop a terrorist threat integration center, to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location.
  3. The Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, said that it and the Defense Department had offered to help curb the risk from the incident.

Other meanings of HD