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A New Take on National Imperatives
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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)
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ST is the advocate for CBRN countermeasures
Recover
Respond
Prevent
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ST Research Agenda

• Homeland Missions
• Bio-Countermeasures
• Chemical Countermeasures
• Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures
• Standards
• SAFECOM
• Threat and Vulnerability, Testing and Assessment
• Critical Infrastructure Protection

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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
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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

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Federal Stewardship
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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