The Department of Homeland Security

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The Department of Homeland Security

• Office of State and Local Government Coordination

21 May 2016
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Mission

• Prevent terrorist attacks within the U.S.
• Reduce Americas vulnerability to terrorism
• Minimize the damage from potential attacks and
  natural disasters

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Organization

• DHS combines 22 federal agencies into four policy
  directorates
• Border and Transportation Security
• Emergency Preparedness and Response
• Information Analysis and Infrastructure
  Protection
• Science and Technology
• The fifth directorate focuses on Management
• The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service and
  Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Service
  exist as distinct entities

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Organization Chart
Executive Secretary
Commandant of Coast Guard
Legislative Affairs
Secretary ---------------------------------- Deput
y Secretary
Inspector General
Public Affairs
General Counsel
State and Local Coordination
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Citizenship Immigration Service Ombudsman
Director, Bureau of Citizenship Immigration
Services (1)
Special Assistant to the Secretary (private
sector)
Director of the Secret Service
Privacy Officer
Small Disadvantaged Business
National Capital Region Coordination
Chief of Staff
International Affairs
Shared Services
Counter Narcotics
Under Secretary Science and Technology
Under Secretary Information Analysis and
Infrastructure Protection
Under Secretary Border Transportation Security
Under Secretary Emergency Preparedness and
Response
Under Secretary Management
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Border and Transportation Security
Asa Hutchinson

• Secure the borders and ports-of-entry of the
  United States
• Protect its transportation infrastructure
• Administer the nations immigration and customs
  laws
• Protect federal buildings
• Enforce agricultural laws at the nations borders
• Help build security preparedness at the state and
  local levels
• Balance security with preserving individual and
  economic freedoms

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Emergency Preparedness and Response
Mike Brown

• Coordinate and support Federal, state and local
  readiness and response efforts for all disasters,
  including terrorist attacks
• Provide disaster preparedness educational
  programs for communities and citizens
• Expand and enhance current capabilities of the
  Strategic National Stockpile pharmaceuticals and
  critical medical equipment
• Improve readiness and capabilities of the
  National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) teams
• Partner with other Federal emergency training
  institutions, standardize training curriculum and
  provide single portal for accessing the programs,
  including terrorism training programs

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Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection

• Identify and assess current and future threats to
  the homeland
• Map those threats against our vulnerabilities
• Issue timely warnings
• Take preventive and protective action

Frank Libutti
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Science and Technology
Charles McQueary

• Partner with operational end-users to identify
  requirements and develop field capabilities to
  counter threats and enhance mission operations
• Engage government, academic and private sectors
  in innovative research, development, rapid
  prototyping and systems development
• Provide a rapid, efficient and disciplined
  process for systems engineering and development
• Provide the nation with an enduring research and
  development capability dedicated to homeland
  security

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Management

• The Management Directorate is responsible for
• Budgeting, appropriations, expenditure of funds,
  accounting finance, procurement
• Human resources and personnel, including
  personnel security
• Information technology
• Facilities, property, equipment, and other
  material resources
• Identification and tracking of performance
  measurements relating to the responsibilities of
  the Department

Janet Hale
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United States Coast Guard (USCG)

• Maritime Homeland Security
• National Defense
• Protection of Natural Resources
• Prevention and response to oil hazardous
  material spills
• Protect against illegal fishing destruction of
  natural resources
• Maritime Mobility
• Waterways management, ice-breaking, aids to
  navigation
• Maritime Safety
• Search Rescue
• Commercial recreational boating safety

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United States Secret Service (USSS)
W. Ralph Basham

• Protect the President and other government
  leaders
• Plan, coordinate and implement security for
  designated national special security events
  (NSSE)
• Protect U.S. currency from counterfeiters and
  safeguarding Americans from credit card fraud
• Emphasize prevention through protective
  intelligence and threat assessment
• Apply dual mission to protect nations key assets
  and critical infrastructure

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Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
(BCIS)

• Immigrant and nonimmigrant sponsorship
• Adjustment of immigrant status
• Work authorization and other permits
• Naturalization of qualified applicants for
  citizenship
• Asylum or refugee processing
• Visa issuance to foreign nationals

Eduardo Aguirre, Jr.
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Office of International Affairs

• Promote information and education exchange with
  nations friendly to the United States in order to
  promote sharing of best practices and
  technologies relating to homeland security
• Identify areas for homeland security information
  and training exchange where the United States has
  a demonstrated weakness and another friendly
  nation or nations have a demonstrated expertise
• Plan and undertake international conferences,
  exchange programs, and training activities
• Manage international activities within the
  Department in coordination with other Federal
  officials with responsibility for
  counter-terrorism matters

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Office of National Capitol Region Coordination

• Mission
• Oversee and coordinate Federal programs for, and
  relationships with, State, local, and regional
  authorities in the National Capital Region
• Functions

• Coordinate
• Assess
• Advocate

• Provide information
• Receive input
• Serve as a liaison

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Office of the Private Sector

• The Director of the Office of the Private Sector
  is responsible for
• Outreach
• Direct line of communication between DHS and the
  Private Sector
• 25 million business in the United States
• BENS, BRT, NAM, NFIB, US Chamber of Commerce,
  etc.
• Sharing
• Information
• Best Practices
• Economic Impact
• Evaluate unintended consequences of DHS policies
• Private Sector Senior Advisory Committee

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• DHS 1St Year Anniversary

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Grant Funding

• Since March 1, 2003 DHS has allocated or
  awarded approximately 8 billion to state, tribal
  and local governments to prevent, prepare for,
  respond to and recover from acts of terrorism and
  all hazards
• FY2003 Grant Funding
• 566 million for State Homeland Security Grant
  Program I
• 750 million for Assistance to Firefighter Grant
  Program
• 100 million for Urban Area Security Initiative I
• 165 million for Emergency Management Performance
  Grants
• 150 million for Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant
  Program

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FY 2003 Grant Funding (Contd)

• 1.3 billion for State Homeland Security Grant
  Program II
• 200 million for protection of critical
  infrastructure during Operation Liberty Shield
• 700 million for Urban Area Security Initiative
  II
• 79.6 million for Interoperability of
  Communications Equipment
• 25 million for Emergency Operation Centers (EOC)
  
• 18.8 million for Citizen Emergency Response Teams

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FY 2004 Budget

• The President signed the first appropriations
  bill in the history of DHS, October 1st, 2003
• FY04 DHS budget is over 30 billion including
• 14.4 billion for Border and Transportation
  Security
• 5.5 billion for Emergency Preparedness and
  Response
• 834 million for Information Analysis and
  Infrastructure Protection
• 913 million for Science and Technology
• 6.94 billion for the U.S. Coast Guard
• 1.34 billion for the Secret Service

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FY 2004 Preparedness Funding

• Over 4 billion for in Homeland Security Grants
  for assistance to our nations first responders
• State Homeland Security Grants
• 1.7 billion
• Urban Area Security Initiative
• 725 million
• Firefighter Assistance Grants
• 750 million
• State and Local Law Enforcement Terrorism
  Prevention
• 500 million

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FY 2004 Preparedness Funding (Contd)

• Emergency Management Performance Grants
• 180 million
• Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants
• 150 million
• Urban Search and Rescue
• 60 million
• Citizen Corps
• 40 million

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FY 2005 Proposed Budget

• FY05 budget is over 40 billion including
• 15.76 billion for Border and Transportation
  Security
• 7.4 billion for Emergency Preparedness and
  Response
• 1.04 billion for Science and Technology
• 865 million for Information Analysis and
  Infrastructure Protection
• 7.47 billion for the U.S. Coast Guard
• 1.36 billion for the Secret Service

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Proposed 2005 Preparedness Funding

• Over 3.5 billion for in Homeland Security
  Grants for assistance to our nations first
  responders
• State Homeland Security Grants
• 700 million
• Urban Area Security Initiative
• 1.45 billion
• Firefighter Assistance Grants
• 500 million
• State and Local Law Enforcement Terrorism
  Prevention
• 500 million

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Proposed 2005 Preparedness Funding (Contd)

• Emergency Management Performance Grants
• 170 million
• Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants
• 150 million
• Urban Search and Rescue
• 7 million
• Citizen Corps
• 50 million

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New Products Services

• Homeland Security Task Force on State, Tribal,
  County and City Grant Funding Created to assist
  and advise DHS on problem areas and viable
  solutions to allocation of preparedness funding
  to State, Tribal, County and City governments.
• Task Force Chair
• Governor Mitt Romney - Massachusetts Homeland
  Security Advisory Council (State and Local
  Officials Senior Advisory Committee Chair -
  SLSAC)

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New Products Services (Contd)

• National Incident Management System (NIMS)
  Launched March 1st , the NIMS provides a
  nationwide template for all levels of governments
  and private-sector organizations to work together
  effectively to prepare for, prevent, respond to,
  and recover from domestic incidents, regardless
  of cause, size or complexity.
• Flexibility
• modular
• scalable
• Standardization
• organizational structure
• Interoperability communication, equipment,
  processes, procedures and systems
• You may access the NIMS via DHS website at
  www.dhs.gov

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New Products Services (Contd)

• Homeland Security Information Network Built
  upon the system known as JRIES, the department is
  expanding its computer based counter terrorism
  communications network to all 50 states, 5
  territories, Washington D.C. and 50 other major
  urban areas. This effort will significantly
  strengthen the two-way flow of real time threat
  information from the Sensitive-but-Unclassified
  level to the Secret levels to state, tribal,
  local and private sector partners.
• SECURE The Strategic Communications Resources
  Effort (SECURE) to provide security clearances,
  and secure video and telephone communications to
  all the states and territories.

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New Products Services (Contd)

• Project SAFECOM The umbrella program within the
  Federal government to coordinate the efforts of
  local, tribal, State and Federal Public Safety
  agencies working to improve Public Safety
  response through more effective, efficient,
  interoperable wireless communications.
• U.S. VISIT United States Visitor and Immigrant
  Status Indicator Technology (U.S. VISIT) program
  is the Departments automated entry/exit system,
  which will expedite legitimate travelers, while
  making it more difficult for those intending to
  do us harm to enter our nation. Its full
  capabilities will now be installed the
  secondary areas of the 50 busiest land ports of
  entry by December 2004

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New Products Services (Contd)

• BioWatch DHS early warning detection system of
  certain airborne biological releases, whether
  they are due to intentional releases or from the
  natural environment. The proposed FY 2005 budget
  request is 118 million, which is 65 million
  above the existing funding level.
• National Disaster Medical System DHS is
  responsible for managing and coordinating the
  Federal response to major emergencies and
  federally declared disasters.
• NOBLE Training Center A DHS local hospital
  facility devoted entirely to medical training for
  WMD or mass casualty events.

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Products Services (Contd)

• Federal Law Enforcement Training Center DHS
  provides world class, interagency training and
  technical assistance of Federal, State, Tribal
  and local law enforcement entities.
• Homeland Security University Fellows   The
  Departments educational program to support the
  development and mentoring of the next generation
  of scientists as they study ways to prevent
  terrorist attacks within the U.S.
• Introduction to Community Emergency Response
  Teams Distance Learning Course DHS online course
  to introduce to citizens the concept of emergency
  response teams especially for those communities
  who have not yet formed regular CERT teams.

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Incident Response Exercises

• Events
• Dealing with many Presidentially declared
  disasters and emergencies from Alaska to New York
  to American Samoa including
• Midwest Tornadoes
• The Blackout/ Power Outage
• Hurricane Isabel
• South California Wild Fires
• Exercises
• TOPOFF II
• Determined Promised
• LIVEWIRE
• Unified Defense

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