Critical Releases in Homeland Security: August 28, 2019

From the Introduction: "This document lays out the strategic vision and operational priorities of the CISA [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] Director. It provides a general approach for how we execute our responsibilities and serves as a reference point for our employees and partners to guide our work and create unity of effort. It aims to position us to successfully meet our mission in the coming years and decades. It serves as the interim strategy as we develop a longer-term strategic plan. The common framework of goals and outcomes helps organize our mission execution and inform management decisions--including operations planning, requirements generation, budget formulation, and performance management. These are high-level outcomes that we will constantly seek to achieve; specific actions and milestones will appear in operational and organizational plans. These goals and outcomes give us a constant foundation for capability and direction as threats and the mission space dramatically evolve."

From the Executive Summary: "The National Mitigation Investment Strategy ('NMIS' or Investment Strategy) is a single national strategy for advancing mitigation investment to reduce risks posed by natural hazards (for example, sea level rise, droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, earthquakes) and increasing the nation's resilience to natural hazards. The Investment Strategy's objective is to identify and measure the effectiveness of mitigation investments, and inform decisions on when and where to make investments. The Investment Strategy encourages the whole community-- including individuals--to invest in mitigation, pre- and post-disaster, by adopting the Investment Strategy's three shared goals. Supporting recommendations focus specifically on how the Federal Government and nonfederal partners can identify, support, influence, and align whole community mitigation investments. The MitFLG [Mitigation Framework Leadership Group] will coordinate the Investment Strategy implementation, carried out by the whole community. The MitFLG will periodically evaluate the success of implementation efforts."