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Director Ridge Addresses U.S. Conference of Mayors [September 26, 2002]
This transcript includes the September 26, 2002 remarks of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He discusses the ongoing debate of the government's reorganization, the new Department of Homeland Security, and funding for the department.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2002-09-26
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Report on Expenditures from the Emergency Response Fund: Second Update to Third Quarterly Report (Amounts as of July 31, 2002)
Reports on Expenditures from the Emergency Reponse Fund are quarterly reports sent to the Congress on the use of the Emergency Response Fund (ERF) appropriations provided by the 2001 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States (P.L. 107-38).
United States. Office of Management and Budget
2002-09-25
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Threat Level Returns to 'Elevated' [September 24, 2002]
This is the September 24, 2002 joint statement of Attorney General John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Adviser Tom Ridge announces the decision to return the threat level to an elevated risk of terrorist attack. "The lowering of the threat level is not a signal to government, law enforcement or citizens that the danger of a terrorist attack is passed. Returning to the elevated level of risk is only an indication that some of the extra protective measures enacted by government and the private sector may be reduced for the time being. We emphasize that the United States and its interests are still at a significant risk of terrorist attack. Detained al Qaeda operatives have informed U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials that al Qaeda will wait until it believes Americans are less vigilant and less prepared before it will strike again. For this reason, and for the safety and security of our nation, Americans must continue to be defiant and alert; undaunted and prepared to respond to a significant risk of terrorist attacks. The American people serve as our strongest defense against terrorism. We ask all citizens to be aware of any suspicious activity and to report it to local authorities or the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2002-09-24
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Serial No. 107-231: Combating Terrorism: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, September 24, 2002
The purpose of this hearing is to discuss the availability and protection of fissile material for use in nuclear weapons. "To be sure, acquiring and building a nuclear device involves complex technical challenges and requires more visible infrastructure than terrorists generally prefer, but the growing public record of attempts by Osama bin Laden and others to purchase fissile fuel and other radiological material demonstrates a determination we dare not underestimate or dismiss. The threat also lurks here at home, where nuclear weapons labs, civilian generating facilities and even medical waste storage sites stand as tempting targets for those seeking to spread radioactive terror.... The shape and scope of current threat reduction programs to staunch the availability of dangerous nuclear materials are being discussed by conferees on the 2003 defense authorization bill. In the coming months we need to hear from the administration, from our government and private partners in this efforts, and from scientists on how effectively the threat of nuclear terrorism is being addressed." Statements, witnesses and submissions: Amatzia Baram, Danielle Bryan, Matthew Bunn, Rose Gottmoeller, Khidhir Hamza, Rensslear Lee, Christopher Payne, Christopher Shays, Dennis Kucinich, Janice Schakowsky, and John Tierney.
United States. Government Printing Office
2002-09-24
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Middle East Peace Talks [Updated September 24, 2002]
"Since the founding of Israel, Arab-Israeli conflict marked every decade until the 1990s. With each clash, issues separating the parties multiplied and became more intractable. The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 provided a home for the Jewish people, but the ensuing conflict made refugees of thousands of Arab residents of the formerly British Palestine, with consequences troubling for Arabs and Israelis alike. The 1967 war ended with Israel occupying territory of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Egypt and Syria fought the 1973 war, in part, to regain their lands. In 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon to prevent terrorist incursions; it withdrew in 1985, retaining control of a 9-mile 'security zone' over which Lebanon seeks to reclaim. Middle East peace has been a U.S. and international diplomatic goal throughout the years of conflict. The 1978 Camp David talks, the only previous direct Arab-Israeli negotiations, brought about the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Migdalovitz, Carol
2002-09-24
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Federal Research and Development Organization, Policy, and Funding for Counterterrorism [September 19, 2002]
The Office of Homeland Security (OHS), created by Executive Order 13228, does not list R&D among its major responsibilities, but R&D is a topic of one of the interagency Policy Coordination Committees attached to the Homeland Security Council (HSC), OHS's interagency group. The director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was not named to participate in OHS activities, but an OSTP staff member is filling the HSC interagency R&D policy coordination role. Proposals have been made to expand the interagency Technical Support Working Group and the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which have funded counterterrorism R&D in the past.
S. 2452, the Lieberman substitute agreed to by the Governmental Affairs Committee, would give broader R&D authority to a national homeland security department.
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Knezo, Genevieve Johanna
2002-09-19
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Intelligence Issues for Congress [Updated September 17, 2002]
"The U.S. Intelligence Community continues to adjust to the post-Cold War environment. Congressional and executive branch initiatives have emphasized enhancing cooperation among the different agencies that comprise the Community by giving greater managerial authority to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). Priority continues to be placed on intelligence support to military operations and on involvement in efforts to combat narcotics trafficking and, especially since September 11, 2001, international terrorism. Growing concerns about transnational threats are leading to increasingly close cooperation between intelligence and law enforcement agencies. This relationship is complicated, however, by differing roles and missions as well as statutory charters."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Best, Richard A.
2002-09-17
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Department of Homeland Security: Appropriations Transfer Authority [Updated September 16, 2002]
"The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as proposed by President George W. Bush and Members of Congress, involves in large part the transfer to the new department of existing functions carried out by many different agencies and programs. Along with the authority to transfer functions, the legislative proposals include authority to transfer the personnel, assets (including appropriations), and other items connected with these functions. The proposals for appropriations transfer authority for the new department have engendered controversy with regard to the appropriate balance between providing executive flexibility and retaining congressional control over spending. [...] With regard to general transfer authority, which would be provided to the Secretary of Homeland Security following the establishment of the department and would cover transfers between accounts within the department's budget, the Administration proposed permanent authority, subject to a 5% limit on the amount that may be transferred from any appropriation and a 15-day notice-requirement to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The House Appropriations Committee, and leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee, strongly objected to the proposed general transfer authority, maintaining that sufficient transfer authority could be provided on an ongoing basis through the annual appropriations process. As passed by the House on July 26, 2002, H.R. 5005 would reduce the general transfer authority limit to 2% and sunset the transfer authority after 2 years. The Senate began consideration of H.R. 5005 on September 3. Lieberman amendment #4471, a substitute amendment offered by Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, does not contain a grant of general transfer authority."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Keith, Robert
2002-09-16
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Homeland Security and the Reserves: Threat, Mission, and Force Structure Issues [September 10, 2002]
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many have suggested expanding the use of the reserves, particularly the National Guard, for homeland security. Over the past two decades, the reserves have shifted much of their peacetime effort from training for wartime tasks to participating in current active force missions. Denying the active forces access to these reserve resources, due to a restructuring of reserves toward homeland security missions, most likely would reduce the readiness of U.S. forces, at least in the near term. At present, some reservists can be enticed to join or remain in the reserves by, among other incentives, real-world missions which are part of real overseas contingencies. On the other hand, homeland security duty could attract some recruits not drawn to foreign travel, but energized by participating in direct defense of American soil. Adequate homeland security may not need forces of the size of the entire Army National Guard (360,000 personnel), let alone contributions from the other reserve components. In coping with such a nation-state, whether it is linked with terrorism or not, the mobilization potential of reserve components configured for intense, modern conventional conflict could well be crucial--as it has been for many countries around the world, including the United States, since the era of modern industrial war began in the late 19th Century.
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Goldich, Robert L.
2002-09-10
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Homeland Security: Human Resources Management [Updated September 5, 2002]
"Responding to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the discovery of anthrax in Washington, DC, and other cities, the Administration and Members of Congress proposed legislation to establish a Department of Homeland Security. President George W. Bush's proposal was submitted to Congress on June 18, 2002 by Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. It was subsequently introduced as H.R. 5005 by Representative Dick Armey on June 24, 2002. The bill was referred to various House committees having jurisdiction over its provisions, and those committees marked up the legislation during the week of July 8, 2002. The House Select Committee on Homeland Security marked up the bill on July 19, 2002, and reported it on July 24, 2002. The House passed H.R. 5005 on a 295-132 vote on July 26, 2002. In the Senate, on May 2, 2002, Senator Joseph Lieberman introduced S. 2452 to create a Department of National Homeland Security. During business meetings of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on July 24 and 25, 2002, the committee agreed to a Lieberman amendment in the nature of a substitute to S. 2452. On September 3, 2002, the Senate debated the motion to proceed to debate on the homeland security bill and on a 94-0 vote agreed to begin debate the next day. On September 4, 2002, Senator Lieberman offered the amendment agreed to by the Governmental Affairs Committee as a substitute for H.R. 5005."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Schwemle, Barbara L.
2002-09-05
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Homeland Security; Management Positions for the Proposed Department [Updated September 3, 2002]
"Congress is currently considering proposals, H.R. 5005 and S. 2452, to create an executive department that will address the national need for homeland security. The proposals would transfer organizational units, functions, and personnel from several departments and agencies. A hierarchy of positions would be established to manage the department and its activities. Some would be newly created, and some would be drawn from those transferring agencies. This report analyzes the proposals in light of the provisions for appointment of that managerial hierarchy. It identifies the positions to be created and the apparent effect on current positions in the transferring agencies."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Hogue, Henry B.
2002-09-03
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Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy [September 3, 2002]
"International terrorism has long been recognized as a foreign and domestic security threat. The tragic events of September 11 in New York, the Washington, D.C., area, and Pennsylvania have dramatically re-energized the nation's focus and resolve on terrorism. This issue brief examines international terrorist actions and threats and the U.S. policy response. Available policy options range from diplomacy, international cooperation, and constructive engagement to economic sanctions, covert action, physical security enhancement, and military force. The September 11th terrorist incidents in the United States, the subsequent anthrax attacks, as well as bombings of the U.S.S. Cole, Oklahoma City, World Trade Center in 1993, and of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, have brought the issue of terrorism to the forefront of American public interest. Questions relate to whether U.S. policy and organizational mechanisms are adequate to deal with both state-sponsored or -abetted terrorism and that undertaken by independent groups. Terrorist activities supported by sophisticated planning and logistics as well as possible access to unconventional weaponry raise a host of new issues. Some analysts' long-held belief that a comprehensive review of U.S. counterterrorism policy, organizational structure, and intelligence capabilities is needed has now become a mainstream view."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Perl, Raphael; Lee, Rensselaer W., 1937-
2002-09-03
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Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication [2002 Edition]
This book is part of the course material for a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) course. "The purpose of this [document] is to introduce the reader to communication principles and tools as they relate to what we have called emergency risk communication. The principles in this course borrow from (1) font of classical rhetoricians, (2) wealth of modern crisis, issues management, communication and psychological theory and, (3) lessons learned form the real and often painful world of experience, old-fashioned trial and error. [This document] is an introductory course that addresses a number of topics critical to successful public, partner and stakeholder communication during an emergency situation. This is not an in depth course on risk communication, issues management, crisis or disaster communication. It is an amalgamation of all of these incorporating from their theory and practical applications." This document "is the attempt by science- or public health professionals to provide information that allows an individual, stakeholders, or an entire community to make the best possible decisions during a crisis emergency about their well being, and communicate those decisions, within nearly impossible time constraints, and ultimately, to accept the imperfect nature of choices as the situation evolves."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2002-09
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Tripolar Stability: The Future of Nuclear Relations Among the United States, Russia and China
The purpose of this work is to identify policy and strategy issues associated with long-term nuclear threat reduction. For fiscal year 2002, the ASCO commissioned this follow-on paper. Its purpose is to explore the emerging nuclear dynamic among the United States, Russia, and China in the context of the new strategic framework pursued by the Bush Administration. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union brought with them the end of the bipolar nuclear standoff and the East-West divide in international politics. What will succeed bipolarity? Multipolarity is one possibility, with a diffusion of power and nuclear weapons among multiple power centers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Unipolarity is another, with a growing gap in the power differential between the United States and other powers, major and minor. A third possibility is tripolarity, in which the competition for influence and nuclear security between the United States and the Soviet Union is replaced by a three-way competition among the United States, Russia, and China. Is this a realistic possibility? How might it come to pass? Would this be a stable world? How should the new strategic framework and the strategy for stability being pursued by the Bush administration be informed by this analysis of tripolarity? Note: This document has been added to the Homeland Security Digital Library in agreement with the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (PASCC) as part of the PASCC collection. Permission to download and/or retrieve this resource has been obtained through PASCC.
Institute for Defense Analyses
Roberts, Brad
2002-09
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Transformation Concepts for National Security in the 21st Century
The famous Confederate General Stonewall Jackson noted that "To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of the victory is the secret of successful war." This observation is at the very heart of the current discussion and experimentation on how the transformed joint services of the United States should employ force in the 21st century. The services are exploring concepts such as Effects Based Operations and Rapid Decisive Operations to move swiftly and strike vigorously to secure victory in the coming decades. At the same time the nation and its armed forces are developing new concepts of homeland security to defend the country in the war on terrorism. The chapters in this compilation represent some of the thinking by students at the U.S. Army War College, considering the nature and direction of transformation concepts that deal with these issues. This is the second volume of essays written by the students in the Advanced Strategic Arts Program at the U.S. Army War College. Like last year's volume, it addresses the question of transformation, but this time within the larger framework of joint concepts and capabilities that are likely to drive processes within the Army and other services over the coming decade.
Army War College (U.S.)
Murray, Williamson
2002-09
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United States and East Asia After 9/11
"The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States have the potential to profoundly alter the nature of US relations with its allies and non-allies alike, The opportunity provided by the loose coalition against terrorism is to leverage US leadership to forge better long-term working relationships with a multitude of states, The danger is that strong US leadership will be interpreted as global hegemony, which will be resisted by other states, even including our allies, This report offers an assessment of views of East Asian governments and peoples on the ongoing anti-terrorism campaign Because the terrorism and response to terrorism is very recent, the sources for this study are primarily official and unofficial statements of East Asian governments, unsystematic surveys of Asian media reactions and public opinion polls, and discussions with East Asian specialists and policy makers." Note: This document has been added to the Homeland Security Digital Library in agreement with the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (PASCC) as part of the PASCC collection. Permission to download and/or retrieve this resource has been obtained through PASCC.
Institute for Defense Analyses
Hassig, Kongdan Oh
2002-09
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U.S. Department of Energy Evaluation Report: The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program - 2002
"While the Department had taken a number of positive steps to improve its unclassified cyber security program, many of its critical information systems remained at risk. Cyber protection efforts continued to suffer from program management, planning, and execution weaknesses. As with our initial review, we noted the Department had not: 1) Consistently implemented a risk-based cyber security approach; 2) Assured continuity of operations through adequate contingency and disaster recovery planning; 3) Strengthened its incident response capability by reporting all computer incidents; 4) Ensured that employees with significant security responsibilities had received adequate training; and, 5) Adequately addressed configuration management and access control problems. These vulnerabilities existed because the Department had not strengthened its cyber security policy and guidance, implemented a cyber security performance measurement system, and established an effective self-assessment program. Persistent problems placed the Department's critical systems at risk of unauthorized or malicious use and increased the potential for compromise of sensitive operational and personnel-related data."
United States. Department of Energy. Office of Inspector General
2002-09
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Joint Force Quarterly: Summer 2002, Issue 31 [September 2002]
"NDU Press produces Joint Force Quarterly in concert with ongoing education and research at National Defense University in support of the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. JFQ is the Chairman's joint military and security studies journal designed to inform and educate national security professionals on joint and integrated operations; whole of government contributions to national security policy and strategy; homeland security; and developments in training and joint military education to better equip America's military and security apparatus to meet tomorrow's challenges while protecting freedom today."
National Defense University Press
2002-09
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European Legal Cooperation Against Terrorism
From the Document: "Attached are 24 reports prepared by the foreign law specialists of the Law Library of Congress that provides an analysis of how European countries and European transitional organizations have responded to the September 11 attacks. The reports describe the legal framework in European countries relating to the fight against terrorism, prior to and post September 11. [...] The Law Library reports cover 12 of the 15 Member States of the EU, and ten of the 13 countries that are candidates for its membership. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, outside the United Kingdom, but part of the British Isles, are separately reported on as well."
Law Library of Congress (U.S.)
2002-09
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan for Homeland Security
This document represents the results of strategic planning for homeland security efforts. It reflects the deliberations of the Agency's senior leadership since November 2001 as well as initial discussions with other Federal agencies and organizations, including the Office of Homeland
Security. The strategic plan for homeland security describes expansion of activities that EPA is already pursuing under existing programs and new initiatives in direct response to potential threats and vulnerabilities. The goals of this strategic plan are organized into four mission-critical areas:
1. critical infrastructure protection, 2. preparedness, response, and recovery,
3. communication and information, and 4. protection of EPA personnel and infrastructure. EPA has developed specific tactics to accomplish each goal and, for many goals, detailed activity lists and time frames for their completion. For almost every tactic, a key initial activity will be coordinated with participation from the new Department of Homeland Security, other Federal agencies, and EPA's partners at the state, local, and tribal levels. In acting
cooperatively, all organizations benefit from varying perspectives and expertise, thus ensuring the most efficient use of resources.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
2002-09
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Critical Balance: Individual Rights and National Security in Uncertain Times
Among the many effects of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 has been a vigorous debate about certain civil liberties. Should suspected terrorists be treated differently from other suspects in court? Should the activities and whereabouts of noncitizens in the United States be regulated more strictly? Should we begin to require national identity cards? Several of these issues have gone beyond the stage of discussion, as suspected terrorists have been detained and brought to trial and as new legislation is passed and old legislation reinterpreted to permit stricter scrutiny of communications and financial transactions. Issues and concerns include: the government's actions under the United States Patriot Act; the government's aggressive use of laws that currently exist to detain in prison possible terrorists and those suspected of aiding them or of having useful information about them; and trials against suspected terrorists.
United States. Department of State
Blitz, Mark
2002-09
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Surveillance Society and the Conflict State: Leveraging Ubiquitous Surveillance and Biometrics Technology to Improve Homeland Security
The thesis examines the emergence of surveillance and biometrics technologies as a pragmatic baseline supporting the goals of homeland security. Assessment of existing catalysts of the world condition, conflict states, terrorist and criminal networks have facilitated increased U.S. and international attention to the field of surveillance and biometric technology. This study scrutinizes surveillance, biometric techniques, strategies, and prevailing present day applications. It contrasts the evolving requirements for improved security with a balanced consideration of civil liberties and privacy. The authors address developmental issues surrounding the hypothesis for a ubiquitous surveillance grid to monitor and combat terrorism, crime, and other contributing illicit behaviors. The authors recommend that federal, state, local, and corporate agencies unite in improving homeland security by implementing the deterrence, detection, monitoring, and response actions that these technologies have to offer.
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Makarski, Richard E.; Marreno, Jose A.
2002-09
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Post-Unified Korean Foreign Policy Options: Regional Implications
Following the prospective unification of Korea, presumably under Seoul's guidance, the government would face the choice between policies of alignment and nonalignment with each major Pacific power. This choice will be influenced by historical predispositions, the path of reunification, Korea's domestic situation, and its relations with each power. As long as the present North Korean threat continues to plague the political and security considerations of South Korea, the ROK has no other viable alternative than the U.S.-ROK security alliance. However, after the elimination of the North Korean threat, a unified Korea will be able to redefine its foreign policy options. Currently, given the predominance of the ongoing war on terrorism, the foreign policy options of a unified Korea are not a top consideration for Washington. This permits the People's Republic of China to play a larger role in the reunification process, which could predispose a unified Korea to tilt toward China. In order for the United States to anticipate and prepare for this event, this thesis analyzes foreign policy options of a unified Korea and the possible political, economic, and military ramifications within the realm of international relations that could conceivably occur with the unification of North and South Korea.
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
DeJong, Laura S.
2002-09
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Performance Plan: Fiscal Year 2003 (Final-September 2002)
This revised plan represents the Department of State's renewed focus on sound strategic planning and effective measurement of performance. In this document, the reader is presented with the following key sections: Benefit to the American Public: This section attempts to clarify the value of the Department of State to the American public, outlining seven concrete areas where the daily work of the Department has a direct impact on the lives of the American people. President's Management Agenda: This section presents a high-level overview of the Department's progress on the five cross-cutting initiatives outlined in the President's Management Agenda. Strategic Goal Executive Summaries: The bulk of this 2003 Performance Plan contains concise summaries of each Department strategic goal. These summaries include an overview of the strategic goal as well as concrete program examples explaining how the Department actively pursues these goals. For each strategic goal, tangible performance goals (outcomes) are also described. Finally, key indicators for each performance goal are stated with trended performance from 1999 through 2001 and projected performance for 2002 and 2003. Resources by Strategic Goal: The final section depicts the Department's resources by each strategic goal. This categorization is included to begin to associate dollars and personnel utilized to achieve each strategic goal. The Department's 2003 Performance Plan is a work in progress. In this document, the Department has taken the first step of transforming long and often opaque past Performance Plans and creating a concise, readable, and transparent document that better communicates the Department's performance story. With a more consolidated document, the Department's next step is to focus on the quality of the projected performance and the performance indicators used to measure these desired outcomes. The 2003 Department Performance Plan can also be found on-line at www.state.gov.
United States. Department of State
2002-09
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National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace [Draft]
"President Bush directed the development of a National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace to ensure that America has a clear road map to protect a part of its infrastructure so essential to our way of life. On the pages that follow is a draft of that road map, developed in close collaboration with key sectors of the economy that rely on cyberspace, State and local governments, colleges and universities, and concerned organizations. These public-private partnerships that formed in response to the Presidents call have developed their own strategies to protect the parts of cyberspace on which they rely. They are made available online today. Other groups, representing other sectors, have recently formed, and have begun the process of developing strategies. Town hall meetings were held around the country, and fifty three clusters of key questions were published to spark public debate. Even more input is needed. This unique partnership and process is necessary because the majority of the country's cyber resources are controlled by entities outside of government. For the Strategy to work, it must be a plan in which a broad cross-section of the country is both invested and committed."
United States. President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
2002-09
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Phased Facility Security Program Development Handbook: Homeland Security Advisory System
This document intends to lessen the risk of any incidents or threats to Department of Commerce (DOC) personnel or facilities and to provide a safe and secure working environment. Homeland Security Presidential Directive-3 (PD-3) was issued on March 12, 2002. Homeland Security PD-3 developed a National Homeland Security Advisory System to provide a comprehensive and effective means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to federal, state, and local authorities and to the American people. The Department of Commerce incorporated Homeland Security PD-3 initiatives into the Department's Phased Security Advisory System on June 30, 2002. This system provides warnings in the form of a set of graduated "Threat Conditions" or Alert Levels that would increase as the risk of the threat increases. The DOC Phased Security Advisory System creates a common vocabulary, context, and structure. At each Alert Level, DOC managers and employees will implement their corresponding Phased Security Alert Plan to reduce vulnerability or increase response capability during a period of heightened alert. The DOC Office of Security recognizes, however, that bringing some facilities up to the DOJ minimum security standards in all areas may not be feasible because of the nature of an existing lease, the unwillingness of a landlord to modify a lease, or a major structural problem. Each facility's security requirements and feasibility of meeting those requirements must be addressed on a building-by-building basis. The DOC/OSY stands committed to provide professional security services to DOC managers to determine individual facility security requirements by providing an Analytical Risk Management Security Survey.
United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Security
2002-09
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U.S. Government Interagency Structure to Combat Transnational Terrorism
This chapter analyzes the current status of the Governmental interagency system and processes vis-à-vis the current terrorist threat. It identifies how new terrorist organizations are different from past threats to the American homeland. It describes as well how their organizational structures can take advantage of traditional U.S. hierarchical structures. Finally, it proposes a potential method of defining the problem and organizing the U.S. Governmental structure to respond to this new threat. The proposal recommends an organizational concept using networks to combine the traditional strengths of existing departmental expertise within the U.S. Government with the advantages of interagency cells to enhance connectivity and coordination. This concept is designed to deal with the interagency complexity of operations we confront as well as sustain the long-term U.S. effort to conduct the global war on terrorism. By no means a perfect or easy solution, it provides a realistic option to consider for organizing the U.S. Government's response to international terrorism, with the ultimate goal of achieving unity of effort in defeating transnational terrorists that threaten the globe while protecting America's homeland and its citizens.
Army War College (U.S.)
Woods, George J., III
2002-09
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Army's Role in Homeland Security
This chapter will examine what the potential role of the Army should be in homeland security. The chapter will define the current problems of homeland security and its subcomponents and break out the homeland security mission areas for the Army. And in so doing, it will set a historical context and suggest relevance in what was already in place for homeland security prior to September 11. The Hart-Rudman Commission Reports indicated that the strategic environment had changed sufficiently over the recent past to demand that the federal government needed to address threats to American soil; and called for paying greater attention to homeland security. Those reports called for the paying of greater attention to homeland security. The final portion of the chapter will address the potential impacts of the Hart-Rudman recommendations on the Army, the security needs following the tragedies of September 11, and a future role for the Army in the daily business of homeland security.
Army War College (U.S.)
Shanahan, Daniel J.
2002-09
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Homeland Security 2002: Evolving Homeland Defense Infrastructure. Executive Summary Report
The second E-Gov Homeland Security 2002 Conference was held June 25- 26 in conjunction with the E-Gov 2002 Exposition in Washington, DC. The conference was focused on Evolving the Homeland Defense Infrastructure, and addressed the current policy and technology-related issues for ensuring our national homeland security. Sessions were organized into two tracks: (1) Creating an Infrastructure for Homeland Security and 2) Building Integrated Homeland Security Operations. Conference participants recognized the overriding importance of cultural change in developing effective homeland security programs.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
McGrath, Martha W.; Randolph, Terri; Charles, Judith
2002-09
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September 11 One Year Later: A Special Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State
This special release marked the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks with a collection of articles addressing terrorism and security issues. Articles include the following: "New Era in U.S. Strategic Thinking" by Robert J. Lieber; "Economic Cost of Terrorism" by Brian S. Wesbury; "Hope Is an Answer to Terror" by George Carpenter and Robert K. Pelant; "The Critical Balance: Individual Rights and National Security in Uncertain Times" by Mark Blitz; "Resilience and Renewal at the Pentagon" by Jacquelyn S. Portb; "Patriot's Progress: September 11 and Freedom in America" by Roger Rosenblatt. Completing the journal is a collection of additional resources, including a chronology of events from September 2001 through September 2002; an excerpt of a U.S. Agency for International Development report on rebuilding Afghanistan; a selected bibliography of books, documents, and articles on the September 11th attacks and response; and a list of internet sites with further information.
United States. Department of State
2002-09
