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Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI)
This Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) webpages provides information on the Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI). "The world is changing in ways that can have major effects on the emergency management community. Thinking more broadly and over a longer timeframe will help us understand these changes and their potential impacts. FEMA launched the Strategic Foresight initiative (SFI) to promote broader and longer term thinking on those changes and their effects. FEMA is only one member of the broad emergency management community. Therefore, the SFI engages all levels of government, non-profits, businesses and individuals. The diverse group improves our understanding of various issues. The SFI also serves as a tool to develop strategies and plans. By understanding the potential future environment, organizations will better understand and anticipate risk and take advantage of opportunities. For example, the SFI may identify new requirements and emerging capabilities. This could support decisions about investments, planning efforts, and exercises. The SFI can also help establish a research agenda for the field of emergency management."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Community Emergency Response Team Triage: Handling Mass Casualty Situations [video]
"Medical triage is the key to doing the most good for the most people whenever there are more victims than rescuers, resources are limited, and time is critical. This training video provides an overview of the medical triage process and portrays the steps that CERT [Community Emergency Response Team] members need to follow to provide victims the most effective lifesaving support available until professional responders arrive on scene. This video will support the materials presented in the CERT Basic Training course Unit 3: Disaster Medical Operations Part 1. CERT trainers will be able to use the material presented in the video to start a dialogue about the potential challenges CERT members may face."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Community Emergency Response Team Training: Disaster Psychology [video]
"CERT [Community Emergency Response Team] participants, trained to support the first responders during a disaster, will be challenged in many ways during and after response operations. However, if CERT members are prepared for the stress, they will be more successful and helpful during the event and more able to rebound when the crisis is over. This training video provides an overview of stress reactions and strategies for dealing with people under stress during a disaster, including the needs of disaster workers themselves. This video will support the material presented in the CERT Basic Training course Unit 7: Disaster Psychology. It will help CERT members learn more about how to deal effectively in a crisis and how to help others cope."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Community Emergency Response Team Training: Safety in the After-Disaster Environment [video]
"CERT [Community Emergency Response Team] members can prepare to work in a post-disaster area by understanding more about the potential hazards, by preparing their own safety kit and by wearing the right gear. The purpose of this training video is to prepare the CERT members for the kinds of hazards they may experience after a disaster and to help them stay safe as they work in the disaster area. This video will support the materials presented in the 'CERT Basic Training' course Unit 5: Light Search and Rescue Operations. CERT trainers will be able to use the materials presented in this video to start a dialogue about the potential challenges CERT members may face."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of the Under Secretary for Management' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for Management for operations and support, as authorized by sections 103 and 701 through 705 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 113; 6 U.S.C. 341 through 345), [$727,771,000] '$696,131,000', of which not to exceed $2,000 shall be for official reception and representation expenses, and of which $227,516,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2019."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Science and Technology' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "S&T [DHS Science and Technology Directorate] requests 431 positions, 455 FTE [full-time employees], and $627.324M of total discretionary funding in FY 2018, a decrease of $144.366M from the FY 2017 annualized Continuing Resolution (CR). S&T has prioritized Administration and Secretarial priorities within available resources based on the Department's Integrated Product Team (IPT) process, which prioritized capability gaps from around the Department that require research and development, and the internal S&T Portfolio and Analysis Review. The proposed strategic reductions will ensure that S&T is rightsized for the future and allow S&T to focus on the highest priority needs of the Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE), such as border security and immigration technology."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Science and Technology Directorate' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The strategic context presents the performance budget by tying together strategy, budget resource requests, programs, or PPAs, [programs, projects, and activities] and performance measures that gauge the delivery of results to our stakeholders. The Common Appropriation Structure (CAS) allows DHS to integrate the strategic programmatic view with our budget view of resources. With this structure, a significant portion of the Level 1 PPAs represent what DHS refers to as our mission programs. Mission support programs are also an important subset of our Level 1 PPAs that provide products and/or services to mission programs. Mission support capabilities include research and development, intelligence, training, and information sharing. Mission support programs may be crosscutting and support multiple mission programs. Mission support also includes enterprise leadership, management and/or business administration services and describes the capabilities and activities that support the day-to-day management and back office functions enabling the Department to operate efficiently and effectively. Performance measures associated with our programs are presented in two measure sets, strategic and management measures."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Management Directorate' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The FY 2019 Presidents Budget includes $1.8B; 2,119 positions; and 1,883 full-time equivalents (FTE) for the Management Directorate (MGMT). Major investments include $171.1M in new development funds for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Headquarters Consolidation at St. Elizabeth's and $39.0M for Financial Systems Modernization. MGMT is responsible for Department-wide mission support services and oversight functions, including information technology, budget and financial management, procurement and acquisition, human capital, security, logistics and facilities, and oversight of the Working Capital Fund. Importantly, MGMT works to eliminate redundancies, reduce support costs, and provide enterprise customer service to DHS Components to help ensure the Department is able to protect the Homeland in a unified and efficient manner."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'National Protection and Programs Directorate' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The strategic context presents the performance budget by tying together strategy, budget resource requests, programs, or PPAs [programs, projects and activities], and performance measures that gauge the delivery of results to our stakeholders. The Common Appropriation Structure (CAS) allows DHS to integrate the strategic programmatic view with our budget view of resources. With this structure, a significant portion of the Level 1 PPAs represent what DHS refers to as our mission programs. A mission program is a group of activities acting together to accomplish a specific high-level outcome external to DHS and include operational processes, skills, technology, human capital, and other resources."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of the Secretary and Executive Management' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security for operations and support, as authorized by section 102 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 112), and executive management of the Department of Homeland Security, as authorized by law, [$136,451,000]$130,307,000: 'Provided', That not to exceed $45,000 shall be for official reception and representation expenses.[: 'Provided further', That all official costs associated with the use of government aircraft by Department of Homeland Security personnel to support official travel of the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary shall be paid from amounts made available for the Immediate Office of the Secretary and the Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary.] 'Note.--A full-year 2017 appropriation for this account was not enacted at the time the budget was prepared; therefore, the budget assumes this account is operating under the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (P.L. 114-254). The amounts included for 2017 reflect the annualized level provided by the continuing resolution.'"
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Customs and Border Protection' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is comprised of [various] mission-oriented programs that support achievement of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. Some programs are indented to show that this is the Procurement, Construction, and Improvements program that supports the related programs. In addition, some fees and funds are indented below the program it most closely aligns to as a funding source."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'National Protection and Programs Directorate': Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) leads the efforts to protect the nation's critical infrastructure against cyber and physical threats, including terrorist attacks, cyber incidents, natural disasters, and other catastrophic incidents. In support of these activities, the FY 2018 President's Budget provides $1.8 billion in discretionary funds, including $971 million to improve security of U.S. cyber infrastructure through collaboration with public, private, and international partners; $197 million to protect infrastructure; $163 million to ensure emergency communications are available to Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial entities, and $263 million for the office of Biometric Identity Management."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Federal Emergency Management Agency' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The strategic context presents the performance budget by tying together strategy, budget resource requests, programs, or PPAs [programs, projects and activities], and performance measures that gauge the delivery of results to our stakeholders. The Common Appropriation Structure (CAS) allows DHS to integrate the strategic programmatic view with our budget view of resources. With this structure, a significant portion of the Level 1 PPAs represent what DHS refers to as our mission programs. A mission program is a group of activities acting together to accomplish a specific high-level outcome external to DHS and include operational processes, skills, technology, human capital, and other resources. FEMA's mission programs are presented below. The Mission Support program was also included for it has publically [sic] reported measures. Performance measures associated with these programs are presented in two measure sets, strategic and management measures."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Proposed Legislative Language: "For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for operations and support to enforce immigration and customs laws, including the purchase and lease of up to 3,790 (2,350 for replacement only) police-type vehicles, $7,512,563,000; of which not to exceed $11,475 shall be for official reception and representation expenses; of which not less than $45,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2019, for maintenance, construction and lease hold improvements at owned and leased facilities; of which not less than $2,018,873,000 is for homeland security investigations operations, including overseas vetting units; of which not less than $4,860,814,000 shall be for enforcement, detention, and removal operations, including transportation of unaccompanied minor aliens."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Transportation Security Administration' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is comprised of [various] mission-oriented programs that support achievement of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. Procurement, Construction, and Improvements programs are indented below the mission-oriented programs they support. Additionally, applicable fees and funds are also indented below the mission-oriented programs to which they most closely align."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Coast Guard' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) operates as a multi-mission organization in support of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. Most of its assets and personnel are not dedicated to a single mission, but have the responsibility to carry out several of USCG's 11 statutory missions using risk-based decision-making to allocate these resources."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Domestic Nuclear Detection Office' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) requests $330.440 million, 158 positions, and 144 FTEs [full-time employees] in FY 2018. DNDO leads the development of the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA), implements its domestic portion, and leads the integration of United States Government technical nuclear forensics capabilities. The FY 2018 request funds activities to protect the United States from radiological/nuclear (R/N) terrorism by developing, acquiring, and deploying detection technologies, supporting operational law enforcement and homeland security partners, and by integrating technical nuclear forensic programs and advancing the state-of-the-art in nuclear forensics technologies. To address gaps in the GNDA and dramatically improve the performance of R/N detection and technical nuclear forensics technologies, the request also funds basic, applied, and developmental research to identify, explore, develop, and demonstrate innovative technologies."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Secret Service' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The U.S. Secret Service carries out a unique, integrated mission of protection and investigations. The Secret Service protects the President, Vice President, former Presidents and their spouses, foreign visiting heads of state and government, and National Special Security Events (NSSEs); safeguards the Nation's financial infrastructure and payment systems to preserve the integrity of the economy; investigates financial, and cybercrimes; and protects the White House Complex, the Vice-President's residence and other designated buildings within the Washington, D.C. area."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of the Secretary and Executive Management Operations and Support' (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Operations and Support (O&S) appropriation funds the Departmental Management Operations Office of the Secretary and Executive Management's operating salaries and expenses. This appropriation provides resources that enable OSEM [Office of the Secretary and Executive Management] offices to provide central leadership, management, direction, and oversight over all of the Department's Components. The nine offices funded by the OSEM include the Office of the Secretary, Office of Policy (PLCY), Office of Public Affairs (OPA), Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA), Office of Partnership and Engagement (OPE), Office of the General Counsel (OGC), Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (CISOMB), and the Privacy Office (PRIV). The O&S appropriation also provides funding for reimbursable detailees the OSEM provides to DHS Components and other Federal agencies."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'United States Citizenship and Immigration Services' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is comprised of the following mission-oriented programs that support achievement of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. [1] 'Employment Status Verification': The Employment Status Verification (E-verify) program enables authorized employers to quickly and easily verify the work authorization of their newly hired employees. [...] [2] 'Immigration Examinations Fee Account': The Immigration Examinations Fee Account (IEFA) is the primary funding source for USCIS. Fees collected from immigration benefit applications and petitions are deposited into IEFA and are used to fund the cost of processing immigration benefit applications and associated support benefits, as well as to cover the cost of processing similar benefit requests for applicants without charge, such as refugee and asylum applicants. [3] 'H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account': The H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account supports activities related to the adjudication of employment-based petitions for nonimmigrant workers seeking an H-1B visa. This program allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. [4] 'Fraud Prevention and Detection Account': The Fraud Prevention and Detection Account supports activities related to preventing and detecting fraud in the delivery of all immigration benefit types. The program leads efforts to identify threats to national security and public safety, detect and combat immigration benefit fraud, and remove systematic and other vulnerabilities."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of Health Affairs' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Office of Health Affairs (OHA) requests $111.319 million, 103 positions and 96 FTEs [full-time employees], for operations, mission support, salaries, and associated management and administration costs for OHA in FY2018.1 OHA is the principal authority for health and medical issues at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). OHA provides biological and chemical defense, medical, public health, and scientific expertise to support the DHS mission to safeguard the Nation. In FY 2017, OHA conducted a comprehensive review of its programs, resources, and missions. The FY 2018 request reflects the outcome of this organizational review: programmatic resources realigned functionally for a more effective and efficient organization. The functional activities form the framework of the Office's national biodefense architecture, chemical defense activities, and support DHS occupational health and operational medicine. The strategy of the FY 2018 request supports a functional realignment of programs into field operations, national operations support, situational awareness, technology enhancements, and preparedness and response operations."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of Inspector General' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is comprised of the following mission-oriented programs that support achievement of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. [1] 'Mission Support': The Mission Support program provides enterprise leadership, management, and business administrative services that sustain the day-to-day back office operations. Key capabilities include managing the agency's performance, finances, workforce, physical and personnel security, acquisition of goods and services, information technology, property and assets, communications, legal affairs, and administration."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Federal Law Enforcement Training Center' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) provide career-long training to law enforcement professionals to help them fulfill their responsibilities safely and proficiently. Over the past 46 years, FLETC has grown into the Nation's largest provider of law enforcement training. Under a collaborative training model, FLETC's Federal partner organizations deliver training unique to their missions, while FLETC provides training in areas common to all law enforcement officers, such as firearms, driving, tactics, investigations, and legal training. Partner agencies realize quantitative and qualitative benefits from this model, including the efficiencies inherent in shared services, higher quality training, and improved interoperability. FLETC's mission is to train all those who protect the homeland, and therefore, its training audience also includes State, local, and tribal departments throughout the United States. Additionally, FLETC's impact extends outside our Nation's borders through international training and capacity-building activities. To ensure the training it offers is up-to-date and relevant to emerging needs, FLETC's curriculum development and review process engages experts from across all levels of law enforcement, and FLETC partners extensively with other agencies and stakeholders in training research and the exchange of best practices to ensure it offers the most effective training subject matter, technologies, and methodologies."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Customs and Border Protection' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is responsible for securing America's borders to protect the United States against terrorist threats and prevent the illegal entry of inadmissible persons and contraband, while facilitating lawful travel, trade, and immigration. Along over 5,000 miles of border with Canada; 1,900 miles of border with Mexico; and approximately 95,000 miles of shoreline, CBP is responsible for preventing the illegal movement of people and contraband. The FY 2019 President's Budget provides $16.7B in total budget authority to support CBP's mission. This represents an increase of $362.9M over the FY 2018 President's Budget."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Federal Emergency Management Agency': Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is comprised of [various] programs that support achievement of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. Procurement, Construction, and Improvements programs are indented below the mission-oriented programs they support. Additionally, applicable fees and funds are also indented below the mission-oriented programs to which they most closely align."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Coast Guard' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The strategic context presents the performance budget by tying together strategy, budget resource requests, programs, or PPAs [programs, projects, and activities], and performance measures that gauge the delivery of results to our stakeholders. The U.S. Coast Guard has one discretionary appropriation, Operations and Support, to which it's publically [sic] reported measures align. These measures are presented in two measure sets, strategic and management measures, and are listed under descriptions for the six U.S. Coast Guard mission programs."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of Inspector General' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts and supervises independent audits, inspections, and investigations and recommends ways for DHS to carry out its vital responsibilities in the most effective, efficient, and economical manner possible. The OIG seeks to deter, identify, and address fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and waste of taxpayer funds invested in homeland security. The OIG is an independent entity to which employees, contractors, and the public can report fraud, waste, and abuse that affects the Department. Results of its findings are reported to the DHS Secretary, Congress, and the public, when appropriate. The OIG seeks to ensure improved transparency, accountability, and efficiency across the Department."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Hospital Preparedness: Multidisciplinary Pandemic Influenza Planning
"Hospitals' planning processes for pandemic preparedness should incorporate multiple disciplines, including such departments as materials management, security, occupational health, and other relevant departments or disciplines."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan [Lithuania]
"Influenza and other acute respiratory infections (hereafter - ARI) cause the most harm to residents' health and stipulate most social and economic waste of all communicable diseases. Increase of population incidence and mortality during influenza epidemic condition not only influenza and pneumonias, but also cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, the exacerbation of which is instigated by influenza infection. After increasing incidence of pneumonia and other chronic diseases, more patients are hospitalised. Different complications occur mostly and are more dangerous for elderly people and people suffering from chronic diseases. During influenza epidemic about of 80% of cause the death of elderly people (65 years and elder). There are registered from 40 to 190 thousand cases of influenza annually (in average - 100 thousand). Yearly about 500 million of people worldwide get sick with influenza."
Republic of Lithuania
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Environmental Justice Annual Implementation Progress Report (FY 2016)
From the Introduction: "On February 11, 1994, President William Jefferson Clinton issued Executive Order (EO) 12898, 'Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations,' requiring each covered agency to 'make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations.' [...] This report summarizes the Department's progress toward achieving the goals of EO 12898 during fiscal year (FY) 2016."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
