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From Drugs to Bugs: The National Guard's Expanding Role in the National Security Strategy
"The National Guard continues to expand its role in the National Security Strategy with increased involvement in Counter Drug operations and the mission to defend the Homeland. This research discusses the National Guard's involvement as a Department of Defense Agency in two of the Nation's biggest concerns, the insidious drug problem and the Asymmetrical Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction use within the borders of the United States. The status of the National Guard under the individual Governor's control and the natural link between the military and civilian agencies provide a cost effective means to assist in countering the drug problem and reacting to a weapons of mass destruction attack."
Army War College (U.S.)
Bloomquist, Robert D.
2000-03-15
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Federal Emergency Response Apparatus: A Need for Change
In the next decade, the United States, as the only world superpower, will face a strategic environment characterized by significant uncertainty and ambiguity. Inherent in this environment will be new, asymmetric threats to our national security, both at home and abroad. Transnational terrorist and criminal organizations, using the latest technology, will gain increased access and ability to employ weapons of mass destruction (WMD) within our borders. The Federal Response Plan is an over-complicated attempt at coordinating numerous federal departments and agencies for effective response to domestic crisis situations. Early warning and preemption would certainly be the best response to WMD attack, but bureaucratic rivalry within the U.S. Intelligence Community hinders the focus necessary to consistently achieve that goal. This paper examines and recommends changes to the federal domestic crisis response apparatus, in a search for greater efficiency and unity of effort in preparing the nation for WMD attack.
Army War College (U.S.)
Sellers, Charles M.
1999-04-06
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Privacy Impact Assessment Update for the Alien Criminal Response Information Management System (ACRIMe) & Enforcement Integrated Database (EID)
"The Alien Criminal Response Information Management System (ACRIMe) is an information system used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to receive and respond to immigration status inquiries made by other agencies about individuals arrested, subject to background checks, or otherwise encountered by those agencies. The Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) is an ICE case management system that captures and maintains information related to the investigation, arrest, booking, detention, and removal of persons encountered during immigration and criminal law enforcement investigations and operations conducted by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. ICE is combining ACRIMe and EID data via the ICE Integrated Decision Support (IIDS) System, a reporting sub system of EID, to enable and enhance comprehensive reporting about criminal aliens throughout the alien identification, apprehension, and removal process. To effectuate this reporting, ICE is modifying ACRIMe to expand its user base within the agency, implementing new user functionality in ACRIMe and EID, and updating IIDS to support enhanced reporting of ACRIMe and EID data. ICE is further expanding ACRIMe support for the Secure Communities initiative. ICE is conducting this PIA update to address these modifications and enhancements."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Privacy Office
2010-09-29
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National Security & Veterans Affairs: Homeland Security
This webpage lists a variety of reports about homeland security funding by agency, state, tribes and other demographic information. Additionally there are reports about border patrol arrests.
U.S. Census Bureau
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Deployable Operations Group: A Model for a National Unified Interagency Rapid Response Command
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created after the attacks on September 11, 2001 to consolidate all the domestic agencies responsible for protecting America's borders and national infrastructure under a single department. Since the attacks, nationwide preparedness efforts have established numerous federal rapid response teams, which are coordinated during a federal interagency response under the National Incident Management System. This hastily formed interagency command can become clumsy, because normally each of these rapid response teams is managed and functions under their independent agency. The U.S. government has unparalleled capability and capacity to respond to crisis events, but this arrangement lacks unity of command which hinders coordination and unity of effort. The newly updated National Response Framework (NRF) and recently developed Maritime Operational Threat Response (MOTR) process provide a strategic and upper operational skeleton for interagency coordination, but do not provide the degree of unity of effort needed to avoid duplication and inefficiency in a time critical response. If each of the highly capable and independent rapid response teams scattered throughout the federal government were managed under a single body, instead of through their parent agencies, the national response effort could have increased interoperability and harmonization. This paper describes how incorporating multi-agency rapid response forces under a single unified command could better coordinate the domestic All-Hazards federal rapid response."
Naval War College (U.S.). Joint Military Operations Department
Cooper, Eric M.
2008-05-22
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Assessing the Fight Against Al Qaeda, Hearing Before the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Second Session, April 9, 2008
From the opening statement of Silvestre Reyes: "Today we will focus on an issue at the top of this committee's agenda, the threat from al Qaeda in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. We believe that Osama bin Laden and his most senior deputies use the largely ungoverned border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan as a safe haven to plan terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies. I think that today's open session is an important companion to the committee's classified work on this very important subject to our country. This is one of the biggest threats that we face, and the American people deserve to know about it. The committee plans to hold additional hearings on al Qaeda, both open and closed, in the coming months in order to focus on this threat and on our progress in countering it. Today we will receive testimony from three experts on al Qaeda. The first is Mr. Peter Bergen, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security. He is also the author of numerous books on al Qaeda. Mr. Bergen is both a widely recognized expert on al Qaeda and is one of the few Westerners to have actually met and interviewed Osama bin Laden." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Silvestre Reyes, Leonard L. Boswell, Robert E. Cramer, Anna G. Eshoo, and John F. Tierney.
United States. Government Printing Office
2008
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Effective Counterinsurgency: The Future of the U.S.-Pakistan Military Partnership, Hearing Before the Full Committee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, Hearing Held, April 23, 2009
From the opening statement of Ike Skelton: "This Congress, this Administration, are committed to developing a mutually beneficial long-term and consistent relationship with the country of Pakistan. Pakistan may well pose the most complex security challenge facing us. The terrorist havens continue to thrive in Pakistan's border area, providing refuge to Al Qaeda, and negatively impacting stability in Afghanistan. Terrorist and insurgent forces on Pakistan's territory also contribute to Pakistan's own internal instability, which is further compounded by the country's economic crisis, and civilian government, with limited powers. At the same time, Pakistan continues to possess enough fissile material for about 55 to 90 nuclear weapons, and tensions with its nuclear-armed neighbor, India, have increased. So how do we strengthen the U.S.-Pakistan military partnership to better address these challenges? In my opinion, the Administration's recent Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy is a step in the right direction. However, the strategy alone does not guarantee success. Implementation of the strategy, benchmarks to measure progress, and accountability are all critical, as well as close cooperation with our Pakistani partners in all of these areas." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: John M. McHugh, Ike Skelton, David W. Barno, David Kilcullen, and Shuja Nawaz.
United States. Government Printing Office
2010
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Test Results for Mobile Device Acquisition Tool: Mobilyze 1.1
This document reports the results from testing of the Mobilyze 1.1. "The Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) program is a joint project of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research and development organization of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) and Information Technology Laboratory. CFTT is supported by other organizations, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division Electronic Crimes Program, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Secret Service. [...] This report is divided into five sections. The first section is a summary of the results from the test runs. This section is sufficient for most readers to assess the suitability of the tool for the intended use. The remaining sections of the report describe how the tests were conducted and provide documentation of test case run details that support the report summary. Sections 2 and 3 provide a justification for the selection of test cases and assertions from the set of possible cases that are defined in the test plan for smart phone forensic tools. The test cases are selected, in general, based on features offered by the tool. Section 4 lists the hardware and software used to run the test cases. Section 5 contains a description of each test case, test assertions used in the test case, the expected result and the actual result."
National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
2011-01
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For Ray Downey: Third Annual Report to the President and Congress of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction
This third annual report represents three years of focused deliberation and cumulative recommendations for protecting the United States against terrorism in five specific areas: state and local response; health and medical capabilities; immigration and border control; security against cyber attacks; and roles and missions on the use of military. These issues were chosen because they need the most attention in order to implement an effective national strategy.
Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (U.S.)
2001-12-15
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Immigration Enforcement: Immigration-Related Prosecutions Increased from 2017 to 2018 in Response to U.S. Attorney General's Direction, Report to the Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives
From the Highlights: "In 2017 and 2018, the Attorney General directed federal prosecutors to prioritize prosecutions of immigration-related offenses, including improper entry into the United States, illegal reentry after a prior removal from the country, and alien smuggling, among other offenses. Most individuals prosecuted for such offenses are arrested by DHS's U.S. Border Patrol and referred to DOJ's [Department of Justice] USAOs [U.S. Attorney's Offices] for prosecution in federal court. GAO [Government Accountability Office] was asked to review the actions DOJ, DHS, and the federal judiciary took in response to the 2017 and 2018 memoranda. GAO reviewed (1) how DOJ prioritized prosecutions of immigration-related offenses in response to the Attorney General's memoranda, (2) what DHS and DOJ data from fiscal years 2014 through 2018 indicate about such prosecutions, and (3) resources that DOJ, DHS, and the federal judiciary used to support increased immigration-related prosecutions."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2019-12
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U.S.-GCC Security Relations, I: Differing Threat Perceptions
"Support for Washington's tough containment policy toward Iraq and Iran remains strong at top leadership levels in the Gulf. However, among educated elites and the man in the street, it is softer. The distance in views between the government and the populace on security concerns may be widening. In Saudi Arabia, there is a widespread view that Saudi Arabia (as distinct from Kuwait) was not threatened by Iraq in October 1994. In this view, Saddam's mobilization on the border was designed to call attention to Iraq's sanctions plight, and the United States over-reacted. Among the educated elite in the GCC states, sympathy for the Iraqi people is strong. So too are fears that continued sanctions, while failing to remove Saddam, could turn the Iraqi populace against the Gulf states that support sanctions. Conspiracy theories accuse the United States of keeping Saddam in power, or at least doing little to remove him, while using the Iraqi threat to strip the Arab Gulf states of their wealth through purchases of unnecessary military hardware. The idea that the United States has used the Iraqi threat to acquire a monopoly of military sales to the Gulf is widespread. More disturbing is growing anti-American sentiment, especially in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, where the the oil industry and the U.S. military are concentrated. Educated Arabs are beginning to blame the United States, with its strong military presence in the Gulf, for bolstering governments open to charges of corruption and maldistribution of wealth and perceived as suppressing even modest dissent."
National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies
Marr, Phebe
1995-08
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How to Stop the Bear: Strategy of Small States
"Keeping in mind limited resources available to weak states, and overwhelming misbalances of power, this study looks for an optimal strategy of a small and weak state that increases prospects of protracting the war, decreases the utility of the aggressor's military capabilities, and threatens to deny an aggressor his political objectives. This thesis concentrates on weak states deterrence strategy. Weak and small states with defensive national security goals but inadequate military strength have always preferred deterrence to fighting. The essence of deterrence is to persuade an actual or potential adversary that they are better off taking different rather actions than fighting. Deterrence succeeds where the potential adversary is persuaded to believe that his planned actions will fail, or that any military action would be result in dire consequences, hence asserting that he is better off not attacking. According to Arreguín-Toft (2009) in order to succeed, the materially weaker side needs (1) social support, (2) sanctuary (either physical, such as tough terrain, or political, such as a weakly defended interstate border), (3) an idea capable of making self-sacrifice seem both necessary and noble (e.g., nationalism), and (4) a strategy capable of tying all three advantages into a single effort. With these four assets, weaker opponents can delay, effectively denying their nominally stronger adversaries the ability to use their advantages in technology, materiel, and numbers to obtain expected political objectives; imposing sufficient costs to force strong opponents to reconsider the expected benefits of victory."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Chikovani, Lela
2010-12
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Customs and Border Protection's Implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative at Land Ports of Entry
This Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report "addresses Customs and Border Protection's [CBP] implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative [WHTI] at land ports of entry and actions needed to be better prepared to fully enforce the new document requirement. It is based on interviews with employees and officials of relevant agencies and institutions, direct observations, and a review of applicable documents." According to the audit, "CBP is not prepared to fully enforce the WHTI document requirement at land ports of entry" and it has "also has not finalized the operating procedures its officers will use to process noncompliant travelers under full enforcement including the conditions requiring travelers be sent to secondary inspection areas, and the minimum inspection requirements and detailed steps needed to verify a noncompliant traveler's identity and citizenship."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2010-11-29
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Russia's Counterproductive Counterterrorism, Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, First Session, June 12, 2019
This is the June 12, 2019 hearing on "Russia's Counterproductive Counterterrorism" before the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). From the opening statement of Richard Hudson, CSCE Commissioner, the hearing was convened to "examine the Kremlin's counterterrorism policies and practices, [...] to better understand what those practices are, how they developed over time, whether they're effective, and to what extent they dovetail, or not, with U.S. interests." According to the Commissioner's statement it is important for the U.S. to maintain a clear sense of Russian counterterrorism practices because "(1) Russia seeks to claim the mantle of leadership on this issue internationally [...] [and] (2) Russia's actions in this space have impact far beyond Russia's borders." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Mariya Y. Omelicheva, Rachel Denber, and Michael Carpenter.
United States. Government Publishing Office
2019
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CBP, ICE, TSA, and Secret Service Have Taken Steps to Address Illegal and Prescription Opioid Use
From the Document: "We determined that from fiscal years 2015 through 2018, in the midst of a growing opioid epidemic, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and United States Secret Service (Secret Service) appropriately disciplined employees whose drug test results indicated illegal opioid use, based on their employee standards of conduct and tables of offenses and penalties. Additionally, during the same period, components either have implemented or are taking steps to evaluate whether employees using prescription opioids can effectively conduct their duties. For example, components established policies prohibiting the use of prescription opioids that may impact an employee's ability to work, in addition to requiring employees to report such prescription opioid use. Components have also implemented or are in the process of implementing measures to evaluate the fitness for duty of employees using prescription opioids. These policies establish consistent standards components can use to ensure they are allowing employees to use legally prescribed opioids, while also ensuring their workforce is capable of effectively performing their duties."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-11-21
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China's Use of Power and Implications for the United States Military
From the Thesis Abstract: "Over the last two decades, with US military forces primarily focused on conflict in the Middle East, China's power projection proliferated from the Indo-Pacific region and spread Beijing's influence across all US geographic combatant command (COCOM) areas of responsibility (AORs). China's efforts put US national interests and security at risk and challenged the presence of US hard power resources in regions outside the sustainable operational reach of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). To fill the gap in the PLA's capabilities, China fostered relationships outside its immediate borders and challenged the Western-dominated status quo across the globe."
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. School of Advanced Military Studies
Schmidt II, Donald A.
2019-05-23
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Management Letter for U.S. Customs and Border Protection's FY 2010 Consolidated Financial Statements
This Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit report "presents the management letter for U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) FY [fiscal year] 2010 consolidated financial statements audit. It contains observations related to internal controls that were not required to be reported in the Independent Auditors' Report on the financial statements. The independent public accounting firm KPMG LLP (KPMG) conducted the audit of CBP's FY 2010 financial statements and prepared this management letter. Material weaknesses and other significant deficiencies were reported, as required, in KPMG's Independent Auditors' Report, dated January 25, 2011. KPMG is responsible for the attached management letter dated March 7, 2011, and the conclusions expressed in it. We do not express opinions on CBP's financial statements or internal control, or provide conclusions on compliance with laws and regulations."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2011-03
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Winning the Invisible War: An Agricultural Pilot Plan for Afghanistan
"When this paper was undertaken in the summer of 2007, one of its purposes was to sound the alarm over Afghanistan and the critical need for comprehensive action across all sectors of society to prevent that country from becoming a failed state. The second purpose was to lay out the major areas that needed immediate attention, largely within the civil side of reconstruction and development. The third was to propose specific pilot plans for rejuvenating the agricultural sector. These plans were developed by experienced American farmers and other experts with long careers in government, agriculture, and development. The principle participants are co-authors. Now, six months later, it appears that the Bush administration and NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] are taking that warning seriously. At least three studies are underway: one at Central Command; a second at the State Department; and a third at NATO. Those studies need not take much time to finish. The issues are clear. At the strategic level, what happens in Afghanistan and beyond its borders can have even greater long-term consequences than how the struggle to bring a measure of stability and order to Iraq turns out. Failure would be disastrous for the United States and the region. Afghanistan could again become a breeding ground for insurgency and terrorism, possibly worse than before the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001. The thriving drug trade also presents major national security and domestic criminal dangers. And what happens in Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan will influence and be influenced by conditions in Afghanistan."
National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy. Center for Complex Operations
Borcherdt, Edward; Carson, Austin; Kennefick, Frank
2008-03
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H. Doc. 116-46: Designation of Funding as an Emergency Requirement
From the Document: "In accordance with section 504 of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 (H.R. 3401; the 'Act'), I hereby designate as emergency requirements all funding so designated by the Congress in the Act pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as outlined in the enclosed list of accounts. The details of this action are set forth in the enclosed memorandum from the Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget."
United States. Government Publishing Office
Trump, Donald, 1946-
2019-07-02
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Contemporary Security and Defense Issues in the Caribbean
From the Foreword: "The Caribbean is often overshadowed by other problems in the Western Hemisphere. To some degree, this is understandable. Drug-fueled violence from organized crime and local gangs have made Central America and Mexico some of the most dangerous places in the world. Remnants of communist insurgents continue to plague Colombia and Peru. Corruption charges threaten to unseat the President of Brazil as they have in Guatemala. Warming temperatures threaten the potable water sources for millions in Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia. [...] The Perry Center has assembled a collection of essays regarding the contemporary security and defense challenges that face Caribbean nations. The essays examine a myriad of complex threats: corruption, loss of control of sovereign territory, organized crime activities, gangs, and drug trafficking. The essays also address problems that frequently don't generate as much attention as the violent activities of criminal groups: global warming, border disputes, and maritime boundaries."
William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
Paterson, Patrick J.; Earle, Walter
2016-08
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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney Aboard Air Force One En Route El Paso, Texas [May 10, 2011]
In this May 10, 2011 press briefing, Press Secretary Jay Carney provides information and takes questions on President Obama's upcoming speech in Texas on immigration; security and patrol on the U.S. border; the U.S. debt; and U.S.-Pakistan counterterrorism cooperation in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2011-05-10
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Environmental Assessment: Sierra Fire Protection District, Fire Station #36 (formerly #40) Thomas Creek
"Sierra Fire Protection District (District) has applied to the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for Federal financial assistance to construct the Thomas Creek Fire Station (proposed project) in Washoe County, Nevada. The assistance would be provided to the District as the grantee through the Assistance to the Fire Fighters Grant Program (EMW-2009-FC-01357). The proposal is for the District to build an 8,000 square foot fire station in a specific location to reduce response times to 65% of the District population. The current sixteen minute response time would be cut by 50% to less than eight minutes. The nearest District back up engine is currently twenty minutes away. This project would provide for faster initial response times and reduce the arrival of a back-up engine from twenty to less than eight minutes. Washoe County Nevada is located along the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Western Nevada. The county covers an area of 6,600 square miles in the northwest section of the state bordering California and Oregon, and has a population of over 420,000. The county seat is the City of Reno. Reno is located 448 miles north of Las Vegas. The Sierra Fire Protection District provides fire and paramedic service to a population of20,000 people living in a 214 square mile extreme fire danger wildland urban interface area along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Washoe County, Nevada. The new station would improve firefighter safety, structural fire and wildland interface response, as well as paramedic and emergency medical service to the most underserved section of the core area of the District. Response from the new station would provide for faster paramedic service, better support to neighboring jurisdictional fire and EMS [Emergency Medical Services] agencies automatic and mutual aid requests and improve overall community safety."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2011-01
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Remarks by the President in State of Union Address [January 25, 2011]
In this January 25, 2011 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama presents an agenda to restore the nation's economy and "win the future." President Obama discusses the need to maintain America's leadership by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building America's global competition. He also speaks of the need to reform the way government works and to take responsibility of the deficit. On national security, President Obama discusses the passage of the New START treaty, diplomatic efforts regarding Iran and North Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fight against al Qaeda and their affiliates. In regards to immigration, the President states the need to "protect our borders, enforce our laws and address the millions of undocumented workers who are now living in the shadows."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2011-01-25
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Privacy Impact Assessment for the Immigration Benefits Background Check Systems
"As part of its benefits adjudication process and as required by law, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) conducts background checks on petitioners and applicants who seek certain immigration benefits. These background checks consist of four separate checks against systems within Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In order to facilitate the collection and transmission of information necessary to complete background check processes, USCIS maintains five information technology electronic systems: the Fingerprint Masthead Notification System (FMNS), the Customer Identity Capture System (CICS), the FD-258 Tracking System - Mainframe (FD-258 MF), the Benefits Biometrics Support System (BBSS), and the Interagency Border Inspection System (IBIS) Manifest. USCIS is conducting this privacy impact assessment (PIA) because FMNS, CICS, FD-258 MF, BBSS, and IBIS Manifest collect, use, and share personally identifiable information (PII). This PIA replaces the previously published USCIS PIA for the 'Background Check Service (BCS)' which describes planned background check-related systems that were never implemented. Upon publication of this PIA, the BCS PIA will be retired."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Privacy Office
2010-11-05
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L-Band Wide Area Surveillance Radar Design Alternatives
"Wide area surveillance systems are becoming more important for border and homeland security, earth resources monitoring and mitigation of natural disasters such as floods and seismic activity. As the frequency spectrum is being utilized for communications and business networking, the available bandwidth for these important efforts is more difficult. Historically, airborne surveillance radars have been fielded at either UHF or S-Band for airborne vehicle detection, and at X-Band for surface vehicle imaging and moving target detection. This paper will examine the impact of new technologies on the design of L-Band surveillance radars that employ solid state active arrays, multiple phase center apertures and adaptive processing to enable fixed and moving target detection from air and space platforms. The operational advantage of the use of small apertures on business jets, medium apertures on high altitude platforms and very large apertures in space will be contrasted."
Air Force Research Laboratory (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio)
Davis, Mark E.; Himed, Braham
2005-04-14
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JTF - WMD Elimination: An Operational Architecture for Future Contingencies
"When the U.S. military initiated the attack into Iraq to begin OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) in the spring of 2003, one of the main objectives was to find, exploit and eliminate Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program and capabilities. However, as forces sped north across the Kuwaiti border, they did so with an ad hoc organization that was hastily assembled and marginally trained to accomplish this task. Despite having approximately 1.5 million men and women on active duty, the U.S. military does not have a standing force trained and prepared to execute the WMD exploitation and elimination mission. The purpose of this paper is to review the organizations that were developed and assigned this mission for OIF, and determine how the Department of Defense should organize to accomplish this task in future operations. Based upon lessons learned from OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM and the ongoing threat of WMD proliferation among state and non-state actors, the author proposes that a standing Joint Task Force is needed to execute this mission to provide for U.S national security and strategic interests. A recommended organizational structure, operational concept, employment scenarios and required resources are provided."
Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.)
Currie, Jim
2004-04-28
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Shift in the National Drug Strategy: Implications for the SOUTHCOM AOR
"This study reviews the national strategy under the Bush Administration, the emerging national strategy under President Clinton and DoD's implementation in the Latin American region. A discussion of the impact on Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) follows with regard to budget, affected programs and theater strategic objectives. Possible implications for the future of this region and the impact on U.S. national security interests are addressed. The study suggests that the drug problem is a long term commitment requiring U.S. support throughout the source-transit-demand spectrum. The U.S. must continue to provide with the necessary resources through a multi-lateral approach because the trafficker has no regard for international borders."
Naval War College (U.S.)
Semrau, William J.
1994-06-17
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Federal User Fees: Key Aspects of International Air Passenger Inspection Fees Should be Addressed Regardless of Whether Fees Are Consolidated, Report to Congressional Requesters
"International air passengers arriving in the United States are subject to an inspection to ensure they possess legal entry and immigration documents and do not bring in contraband, such as illegal drugs, counterfeit goods, or harmful pests and prohibited agriculture products. With the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003, the customs, immigration, and agriculture inspections activities were integrated into one program led by DHS's office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). However, the three fees-whose collections totaled about $1 billion in fiscal year 2006-linked to these inspections remain statutorily distinct and are coadministered by CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), both within DHS, and the Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). GAO was asked to examine how the fees are set, collected, and distributed, and the benefits and challenges of this process to agencies and stakeholders, including implications of consolidating these fees under the authority of DHS."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2007-09
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Reassessment of US Counter-Drug Strategy and Policy
"The War on Drugs has been waged for decades with little net effect on the flow of illicit drugs into the United States. High profit potential, poverty, and corruption within source countries coupled with steady US demand and porous borders have created what seems to have become a lasting condition. To-date, the immutable law of supply and demand has proven a more potent factor in governing the flow of illicit drugs than all the instruments of US national power combined. Current US strategy focuses a majority of effort on existential causes and on lower-level actors, expending resources without significantly affecting the drug trade itself. A shift in focus to profit, as the financial center of gravity, and to internal demand may have much greater impact on curtailing the drug trade and better serve long-term US national security interests. What is the nature of this war? What drives national policy? How do second and third order effects impact US interests and the way the United States is perceived? Is there a better alternative? This paper explores these issues in view of the current threat and in consideration of a future environment in which resources may be further constrained."
Army War College (U.S.)
Royal, Joel P.
2007-03-30
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Utilizing the Elements of National Power to Predict Ungoverned Space
"The greatest threat to stability in Africa is the increase in transnational terrorist groups and criminals that occupy the ungoverned spaces. African nations suffer from the inability of the African governments to secure their borders and protect their citizens. The situation creates problems not only for Africa but also for the remainder of the world. The way to mitigate the risk of transnational terrorists and other violent non-state actors is to take away the conditions that lead to ungoverned space. The United States must identify the African nations with the greatest potential for change. The way to identify these nations is to assess the strength of their national powers. Enhancing the diplomatic, informational, economic, and law enforcement powers of these nations will allow them to focus their personnel and resources towards the goal of removing ungoverned space from the African continent. Once these sanctuaries are removed, transnational terrorists will be identified and eliminated. The result will be a stable African continent whose nations are better established and better able to connect with the remainder of the global community."
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. School of Advanced Military Studies
Elrich, John E.
2007-05-07
