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• Emergency Preparedness Manual for Early Childhood Programs

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  "This manual is intended to assist early childhood education programs in making a plan that will help keep their program, center, or home safe during an emergency. The manual is designed to be a workbook-style document that includes information about emergency preparedness as well as corresponding worksheets that allow you to customize an emergency plan for your program, center, or home. As you go through the manual, consider the points below as a way to guide you through the process of creating your emergency preparedness plan."

  United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• Active Fire Mapping Program

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  "The Active Fire Mapping Program is an operational, satellite-based fire detection and monitoring program managed by the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Active Fire Mapping program provides near real-time detection and characterization of wildland fire conditions in a geospatial context for the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Canada. Detectable fire activity across all administrative ownerships in the United States and Canada are mapped and characterized by the program."

  United States. Forest Service
• Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003: Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism

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  The annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report, released April 2004 by the Secretary of State and the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f(a), which requires the Department of State to provide Congress a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the criteria of Section (a)(1) and (2) of the Act.

  United States. Department of State
• Floodwater After a Disaster or Emergency

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  "Floodwater and standing waters can be dangerous and can make you vulnerable to infectious diseases, chemical hazards, and injuries. Protect yourself and your loved ones from the risks brought by floodwater by following these steps."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Ali Hasan Al-Majid Al-Tikriti (Chemical Ali)

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  This link contains records provided through the FBI Vault on Ali Hasan Al-Majid Al-Tikriti (Chemical Ali), former Iraqi Defense Minister, Interior Minister, military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, and former governor of Kuwait.

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Pet Safety: Emergency Preparedness

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  "Being prepared when a disaster or emergency hits can reduce the impact of the disaster on your Family and decrease the fear, anxiety, and stress that your Family experiences. Following these helpful tips will assist your Family in being ready to respond to a crisis when it unexpectedly strikes home. If you have horses, livestock, birds, reptiles, or other small animals, remember to include ALL of your animals in your disaster/emergency preparedness planning."

  U.S. Army Public Health Center
• Intellectual Property Rights: Fiscal Year 2015 Seizure Statistics

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  From the Document: "Products that infringe U.S. trademarks and copyrights or are subject to exclusion orders issued by the United States International Trade Commission threaten the health and safety of American consumers and pose risks to our economy and our national security. Continued enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) mitigates the financial and welfare risks posed by imports of such illicit products. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, IPR seizures increased nearly 25 percent to 28,865 from 23,140 in FY 2014. The total estimated manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of the seized goods, had they been genuine, increased 10 percent to $1,352,495,341. Tactical interagency collaboration with the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) resulted in 538 arrests, with 339 indictments, and 357 convictions."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Office of Trade
• Intellectual Property Rights: Fiscal Year 2014 Seizure Statistics

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  From the Document: "Products that infringe on U.S. trademarks, copyrights, and patents threaten the health and safety of American consumers, our economy, and our national security. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) continued Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement against these illicit imports mitigates the financial and welfare risk. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 the number of IPR seizures decreased nearly 5% to 23,140 from 24,361 in FY 2013. The manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of the goods had they been genuine decreased 30% to $1,226,347,540. Tactical interagency collaboration with the HSI-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) resulted in 683 arrests, with 454 indictments and 461 convictions."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Office of Trade
• Intellectual Property Rights: Fiscal Year 2013 Seizure Statistics

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  From the Document: "Products that infringe on U.S. trademarks, copyrights, and patents threaten the health and safety of American consumers, our economy, and our national security. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) continued Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement against these illicit imports mitigates the financial and welfare risk. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 the number of IPR seizures increased nearly 7% to 24,361 from 22,848 in FY 2012. The manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of the goods had they been genuine, increased 38% to $1,743,515,581. Tactical interagency collaboration led by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center led to 693 arrests, 411 indictments, and 465 convictions for IPR crimes in FY 2013. Additionally, 1,413 domain names distributing counterfeit merchandise were seized, 35 exclusion order enforcement actions were completed and 20 shipments of circumvention devices were seized."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Office of Trade
• International Boundary & Water Commission [website]

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  From the About: "The mission of the IBWC [International Boundary & Water Commission] is to apply the rights and obligations which the Governments of the United States and Mexico assume under the numerous boundary and water treaties and related agreements, and to do so in a way that benefits the social and economic welfare of the peoples on the two sides of the boundary and improves relations between the two countries."

  International Boundary & Water Commission, United States & Mexico
• H. Rept. 115-452: Strengthening Oversight of Iran's Access to Finance Act, Report Together with Minority Views to Accompany H.R. 4324, December 7, 2017

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  "The Committee on Financial Services, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4324) to require the Secretary of the Treasury to make certifications with respect to United States and foreign financial institutions' aircraft-related transactions involving Iran, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."

  United States. Government Publishing Office
• Hospital Personal Protective Equipment Planning Tool

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  "The Hospital Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Planning Tool is designed to help hospitals determine approximate minimum PPE needs based on special pathogen category and a number of facility specific variables. Calculators are included for Ebola Virus Disease/Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (EVD/VHF) as well as special respiratory pathogen such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome/Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (MERS/SARS), and for pandemic influenza. The tool does not provide information for less virulent pathogens. It is not intended as a clinical tool and should be used as a pre-incident planning tool and NOT during an outbreak."

  United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
• Questions and Answers: The National Veterinary Stockpile and the 24 Hour Push Pack

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  "The National Veterinary Stockpile (NVS) program, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), provides support to States, Tribes, and Territories responding to damaging animal disease outbreaks. Within 24 hours, the NVS can provide veterinary countermeasures--including certain types of animal vaccines, antivirals, supplies, equipment, and response services--to animal health officials in affected areas. [...] One of the services NVS provides is shipping the '24 Hour Push Pack' when needed to combat a damaging animal disease outbreak. [...] A 24 Hour Push Pack is the initial shipment of supplies. The shipment will arrive within 24 hours of APHIS' approval to deploy resources. The requestor only needs to provide basic information about the situation, and we will coordinate the transport of supplies needed to respond to a damaging animal disease."

  United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• Biosecurity for Pigs with Outdoor Access

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  "Pigs raised with outdoor access are more likely to be exposed to disease than pigs raised indoors, but there are simple biosecurity steps you can take to reduce the chance of disease entering your farm or spreading on your farm. Biosecurity is best when it becomes a part of your daily routine."

  United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• Cutters, Boats, and Aircraft of the U.S. Coast Guard

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  "Professionally and proficiently operated by the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard, the service's cutters, aircraft, and boats are standing by 24/7 to respond to safety and security threats in all weather conditions, day or night. As the lead federal agency in the maritime domain for law enforcement, incident response, homeland security, and disaster management, these specialized capabilities enable the Coast Guard to save lives, protect the environment, enforce federal laws on the high seas, and defend the homeland. In recent years, the Coast Guard realized several achievements with recapitalizing its assets. [...] Despite these milestones, fleet and aircraft recapitalization timelines lag service need, endangering the ability to be 'Always Ready' to prepare for, respond to, and quickly recover from major incidents. Moving forward, the Coast Guard will thoughtfully pursue and achieve a balanced and executable acquisition program for the deteriorating offshore, coastal, and inland assets."

  United States. Coast Guard
• Field Force Operations: Student Guide

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  This is the Student Guide associated with the Center for Domestic Preparedness Field Force Operations training.

  United States. Center for Domestic Preparedness
• Learning Internet of Things Security 'Hands-On'

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  "The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a wide range of processes: sensing, computation, communication, time, context, and data, to name only a few. How do all of these function as a system when using commercially available components that can be purchased from anywhere and at a low cost, and with little or no component pedigree available? To provide some practical answers to the these questions, we purchased components and created a set of small use cases to see how it all interoperated. We additionally wanted to ask what this means in terms of security, given many reports warning that IoT often lacks security features. Said another way, what could we glean from buying cheap parts, creating our own use cases with them, and learning how to exploit the vulnerabilities of those off-the shelf parts? The answer is a lot."

  National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)

  Kolias, Constantinos; Stavrou, Angelos; Voas, Jeffrey M. . . .
• United States Coast Guard (USCG) [website]

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  This is the official website for the U.S. Coast Guard, now combined with the Department of Homeland Security. Features include links to other government websites as well as various Coast Guard links.

  United States. Coast Guard
• Building Sustainability in Demonstration Projects for Children, Youth, and Families

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  "This toolkit is designed to provide ideas and linkages to other resources that will enable demonstration sites to build on their success and sustain effective efforts beyond the life of the grant. It offers case study examples and a variety of tools communities may want to use as they consider plans for sustaining, replicating or 'scaling-up' reform efforts. This toolkit is one of several resources developed to strengthen and sustain the capacity of OJJDP [Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention] sites served by SITTAP [Systems Improvement Training and Technical Assistance Project] to achieve and sustain their systems reform goals and effectively address the related challenges. Other toolkits will address topics such as: Building Community Partnerships; Using Data Effectively; and Family-Centered, Culturally Competent Partnerships. These resources are also designed to educate and inform other communities and the field about how they can more effectively pursue community-based systems reform."

  Institute for Educational Leadership (Washington, D.C.)

  Kaufman, Martha
• Hazard Assessment Template

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  "This Internet tool helps to construct websites that identify potential hazards for specific locations. Website users identify the location by address, owner name, or by clicking in the map. The tool queries the hazards data to determine the hazards zone(s) for the location. Typical users include planning and permitting departments, residents applying for building permits, hazard mitigation officials, and natural resource planners. The tool's functionality can be set up for any location that has the required data and resources."

  Coastal Services Center (U.S.)
• Department of Homeland Security: FutureTECH

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  This webpage provides information about the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) FutureTECH Program whose objective "is to establish mutually-beneficial partnerships with the private sector, national laboratories, university community and other Research and Development (R&D) organizations to develop technologies/capabilities that address the long-term needs of the Department and its stakeholders. FutureTECH enables the private sector and others to peer into the critical research/innovation focus areas of interest to the Science and Technology Directorate. FutureTECH identifies and focuses on the future needs of the Department as fully deployable technologies and capabilities, in many cases, are not readily available in the private sector or federal government space."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Homeland Security: SECURE (System Efficacy through Commercialization, Utilization, Relevance and Evaluation) Program

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  This webpage provides information about the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) SECURE Program which "is an efficient and cost-effective program to foster cooperative win-win partnerships between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the private sector. The Department works with the private sector to develop products, systems or services aligned to the needs of its operating components, first responders and critical infrastructure/key resources owners and operators, representing in many cases, large potential available markets. The Department posts detailed operational requirements in the form of an Operational Requirements Document (ORD) on this site to articulate specific requirements in conjunction with a conservative estimate of the Potential Available Market (PAM) of a given product, system, or service. Private sector entities possessing technologies or products aligned to these requirements can use this valuable information to generate a business case and develop (at their cost) a fully deployable product or service after their verification of market potential. The Department assures that a product or service has demonstrated operational performance that meets a given private sector entity's published specifications through our review of recognized third-party independent testing data. This enables the private sector, through the free market system, to develop products and services that capture significant revenue opportunities and demonstrates to potential purchasers that the product does what it claims to do."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security
• Healthcare Coalition Recovery Plan Template

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  "Both the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and HPP-PHEP [Hospital Preparedness Program - Public Health Emergency Preparedness] Cooperative Agreement Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) emphasize the role of HCCs [Health Care Coalitions] during the recovery phase of a disaster. This template provides general headers and descriptions for a sample pre-disaster HCC Recovery Plan that can be modified after an incident to become a disaster-specific plan. The resources used to develop this template include sample HCC plans, Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities, and the ASPR [Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response] Healthcare COOP & Recovery Planning Concepts, Principles, Templates, & Resources."

  United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• Health Care Coalition Response Plan [Template]

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  "Both the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and HPP-PHEP [Hospital Preparedness Program - Public Health Emergency Preparedness] Cooperative Agreement Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) require Health Care Coalitions (HCCs) to develop a response plan. This template provides general headers and descriptions for a sample HCC Response Plan Template. The resources used to develop this template includes sample HCC plans and the Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities."

  United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals [website]

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  This is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals webpage. This webpage includes the 'Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, 2009' and subsequent updated tables to accompany the report. "The National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (National Exposure Report) is a series of ongoing assessments of the U.S. population's exposure to environmental chemicals by measuring chemicals in people's blood and urine, also called biomonitoring. The Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (Fourth Report) presents exposure data for 212 environmental chemicals for the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population." Additional information on the webpage includes Chemical Factsheets, Chemical Selection, Biomonitoring Summaries, Frequently Asked Questions and more.

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• 'Manhattan District History' [website]

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  From the Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technical Information webpage on the 'Manhattan District History': "General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, in late 1944 commissioned a multi-volume history of the Manhattan Project called the 'Manhattan District History'. Prepared by multiple authors under the general editorship of Gavin Hadden, a longtime civil employee of the Army Corps of Engineers, the classified history was 'intended to describe, in simple terms, easily understood by the average reader, just what the Manhattan District did, and how, when, and where.' The volumes record the Manhattan Project's activities and achievements in research, design, construction, operation, and administration, assembling a vast amount of information in a systematic, readily available form. The 'Manhattan District History' contains extensive annotations, statistical tables, charts, engineering drawings, maps, photographs, and detailed indices. Only a handful of copies of the history were prepared. The Department of Energy's Office of History and Heritage Resources is custodian of one of these copies. The history is arranged in thirty-six volumes grouped in eight books. Some of the volumes were further divided into stand-alone chapters. Several of the volumes and stand-alone chapters were never security classified. Many of the volumes and chapters were declassified at various times and were available to the public on microfilm. Parts of approximately a third of the volumes remain classified. […] Following is a listing of the books, volumes, and stand-alone chapters of the 'Manhattan District History' with links to pdf [portable document format] copies."

  United States. Department of Energy. Office of Classification; United States. Department of Energy. Office of History and Heritage Resources; United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science Education and Technical Information

  Hadden, Gavin, 1888-1956
• Ebola Outbreak 2014: Information Resources [website]

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  This National Library of Medicine website is about the 2014 Ebola outbreak and contains various resources concerning the outbreak. The purpose of this page is to provide individuals and organizations with information about the disease and resources available to those providing local and international services. Information resources include the following: 1) U.S. Federal Organizations; 2) U.S. Organizations; 3) International Organizations; 4) Free Resources from Publishers for Medical Responders; 5) Biomedical Journal Literature and Reports; 6) Social Media; 7) Health Resources for the Public; 8) Multi-Language Resources; and 9) Disclaimer.

  National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Disaster Information Management Research Center; National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Specialized Information Services Division; United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Homeland Security: Blue Campaign [website]

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  This the Document Library webpage for the Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign against human trafficking: "Join the fight to end human trafficking by raising awareness of this heinous crime in your community. We have a wide variety of human trafficking awareness materials to help educate the public to watch out for signs and indicators of trafficking and report suspected trafficking to law enforcement."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security
• SAMHSA's Disaster Kit [website]

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  "This toolkit arms disaster recovery workers with materials that aid in responding effectively to the general public during and after a disaster, and in dealing with workplace stress. The toolkit includes SAFE-T [Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage] practice guidelines, and suicide prevention wallet cards. It also includes guides for parents, caregivers, teachers, and others."

  United States. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• Naloxone Training Toolkit [website]

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  This webpage offers several PDFs on Naloxone and its use in emergency situations as well as training resources.

  United States. Indian Health Service