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1
A New Take on National Imperatives
2
General DHS Organizational Structure
  • Coast Guard
  • Secret Service
  • Citizenship Immigration Ombudsman
  • Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Legislative Affairs
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General
  • State Local Coordination
  • Private Sector Coordination
  • International Affairs
  • National Capital Region Coordination
  • Counter-narcotics
  • Small and Disadvantaged Business
  • Privacy Officer
  • Chief of Staff

Secretary (Ridge) Deputy Secretary (Loy -
Nominated)
Management (Hale)
Information Analysis Infrastructure
Protection (Libutti)
Border Transportation Security (Hutchinson)
Emergency Preparedness Emergency
Response (Brown)
Science Technology (McQueary)
3
ST is the advocate for CBRN countermeasures
Recover
Respond
Prevent
4
ST Research Agenda
  • Homeland Missions
  • Bio-Countermeasures
  • Chemical Countermeasures
  • Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures
  • Standards
  • SAFECOM
  • Threat and Vulnerability, Testing and Assessment
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection

5
ST RDTE Execution
Plans, Programs, and Budgets Defines
Needs Identifies Gaps Prioritizes
Programs Security Missions CBRN/HE
Countermeasures Information Analysis Critical
Infrastructure Protection Interoperability Standar
ds Homeland Missions (USCG, USSS, BTS, EPR)
Operational End Users
Operational End Users
Capability Push/Market Pull
Delivering Capabilities to Operational End-Users
6
Academic community is an important partner
  • Adding important cross-cutting research component
    to ST through university-based Homeland-Security
    Centers
  • Applying cutting-edge science and technology to
    real-world problems through HSARPA projects
  • Encouraging the development of the first and next
    generation of researchers in areas relevant to
    homeland security through the DHS Scholars and
    Fellows program

7
Federal Stewardship
8
People Homeland Security Scholars Fellows
  • 2003 Class
  • 50 Scholars and 50 Fellows in engineering, math,
    computer science, social sciences, life and
    physical sciences
  • 2004 Class (2/19)
  • New competition
  • Quality internships
  • Alumni network
  • Post-doctoral program

9
Building University Programs
  • Link university capabilities with HS mission
  • Ensure merit based selection process
  • Encourage meaningful partnerships
  • Build a model for collaboration between Centers
  • Engage Undergrad., Grad students and Post Docs
  • Link faculty and students to ongoing Natl and
    Fedl lab research
  • Coordination with other agencies

10
Selecting An Academic Center
  • Prioritize topics informed by HS legislation
  • Inform Universities of needs and goals
  • Mission orientation
  • Role of Partnerships
  • Network of Centers
  • Develop merit review procedures External area
    expert review internal relevance review

11
Risk Based Economic Modeling
  • Developed tools to be available to future Centers
  • Subject area addresses a clear and enabling
    priority
  • Exploits university strength in interdisciplinary
    research
  • Emphasizes shared roles of engineering, hard
    sciences and the social sciences
  • Real potential to attract new disciplines and
    expertise to homeland security

12
Selection Chronology
  • Mid-August Call for White Papers on Risk Based
    Economic Modeling 72 received and reviewed by
    external and internal reviewers
  • Early September 12 invited to submit full
    proposals by early October and reviewed by
    external and internal reviewers
  • Late October Site visits to 4 institutions
  • Early November Recommendation forwarded for
    approval
  • November 25 Public and Federal Register
    announcement of USC as first Center of Excellence

13
Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic
Analysis of Terrorism Events
  • Will develop modeling capabilities that cut
    across general threats and targets, represented
    by application areas such as electrical power,
    transportation and telecommunications
  • Will develop tools for planning responses to
    emergencies, to save lives and reduce economic
    impacts
  • Headed by faculty with USCs School of
    Engineering and School of Policy, Planning and
    Development
  • Team includes experts from across the country,
    and partnerships with universities including New
    York University, University of Wisconsin at
    Madison, and others

14
Possible Future HS-Centers
  • BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT
  • Agro-terrorism countermeasures addressing
    foreign animal diseases and food
    contamination(25 proposals received 2/9/04
    awards in April)
  • OTHERS UNDER CONSIDERATION
  • Behavioral research on terrorism and
    countermeasures
  • Public perceptions responses to terrorism
  • Response technologies and operations
  • System deployment information management of
    sensor networks

15
Educational Activities
  • Three areas Public education post-secondary
    responder training.
  • Significant activity in responder training, but
    largely uncoordinated
  • Public education recognized to be high priority,
    but not yet effectively addressed
  • Colleges universities aggressively establishing
    HS courses, programs degrees, with limited
    involvement of impacted constituencies

16
Other Likely ST Initiatives
  • Joint Programs With Other Agencies (EPC, NSF)
  • Security Related Curriculum Development
  • Outreach Efforts (e.g. K-12 public education
    underrepresented institutions)
  • Workshops and Conferences
  • Research and Education Linkages with
    International Community

17
USC Proposal
  • Demonstrated linkage with HS mission and
    flexibility to adapt to new areas of need
  • Meaningful partnerships with U of
    Wisconsin-Madison, NYU, and others
  • Prior success in building collaborations between
    Centers on and off campus
  • Clear plans for involving Undergrad, Grad
    students and Post Docs, and the use of distance
    learning for outreach
  • Early, meaningful involvement of national labs,
    industry and state and local public safety
    agencies
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