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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of the Secretary and Executive Management Operations and Support' (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Operations and Support (O&S) appropriation funds the Departmental Management Operations Office of the Secretary and Executive Management's operating salaries and expenses. This appropriation provides resources that enable OSEM [Office of the Secretary and Executive Management] offices to provide central leadership, management, direction, and oversight over all of the Department's Components. The nine offices funded by the OSEM include the Office of the Secretary, Office of Policy (PLCY), Office of Public Affairs (OPA), Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA), Office of Partnership and Engagement (OPE), Office of the General Counsel (OGC), Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (CISOMB), and the Privacy Office (PRIV). The O&S appropriation also provides funding for reimbursable detailees the OSEM provides to DHS Components and other Federal agencies."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Analysis and Operations' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "Analysis and Operations provides resources supporting the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the Office of Operations Coordination. Even though these two offices are distinct in their missions, they work together and with other DHS Components to support the Department's mission of protecting the Homeland. The mission of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis is to equip the Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE) with the intelligence and information it needs to keep the Homeland safe, secure, and resilient; in support of the Secretary, other government officials, and State, local, and private sector partners. The mission of the Office of Operations Coordination is to provide steady state and crisis action information sharing, situational awareness, and operations coordination to assist the Secretary across the enterprise and during continuity operations; in order to prevent, protect, respond to, and recover from terrorist threats/attacks or threats from other man-made or natural disasters."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'United States Citizenship and Immigration Services' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is comprised of the following mission-oriented programs that support achievement of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. [1] 'Employment Status Verification': The Employment Status Verification (E-verify) program enables authorized employers to quickly and easily verify the work authorization of their newly hired employees. [...] [2] 'Immigration Examinations Fee Account': The Immigration Examinations Fee Account (IEFA) is the primary funding source for USCIS. Fees collected from immigration benefit applications and petitions are deposited into IEFA and are used to fund the cost of processing immigration benefit applications and associated support benefits, as well as to cover the cost of processing similar benefit requests for applicants without charge, such as refugee and asylum applicants. [3] 'H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account': The H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account supports activities related to the adjudication of employment-based petitions for nonimmigrant workers seeking an H-1B visa. This program allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. [4] 'Fraud Prevention and Detection Account': The Fraud Prevention and Detection Account supports activities related to preventing and detecting fraud in the delivery of all immigration benefit types. The program leads efforts to identify threats to national security and public safety, detect and combat immigration benefit fraud, and remove systematic and other vulnerabilities."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of Health Affairs' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Office of Health Affairs (OHA) requests $111.319 million, 103 positions and 96 FTEs [full-time employees], for operations, mission support, salaries, and associated management and administration costs for OHA in FY2018.1 OHA is the principal authority for health and medical issues at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). OHA provides biological and chemical defense, medical, public health, and scientific expertise to support the DHS mission to safeguard the Nation. In FY 2017, OHA conducted a comprehensive review of its programs, resources, and missions. The FY 2018 request reflects the outcome of this organizational review: programmatic resources realigned functionally for a more effective and efficient organization. The functional activities form the framework of the Office's national biodefense architecture, chemical defense activities, and support DHS occupational health and operational medicine. The strategy of the FY 2018 request supports a functional realignment of programs into field operations, national operations support, situational awareness, technology enhancements, and preparedness and response operations."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of Inspector General' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is comprised of the following mission-oriented programs that support achievement of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. [1] 'Mission Support': The Mission Support program provides enterprise leadership, management, and business administrative services that sustain the day-to-day back office operations. Key capabilities include managing the agency's performance, finances, workforce, physical and personnel security, acquisition of goods and services, information technology, property and assets, communications, legal affairs, and administration."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019, Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The strategic context presents the performance budget by tying together strategy, budget resource requests, programs, or PPAs [programs, projects and activities], and performance measures that gauge the delivery of results to our stakeholders. The Common Appropriation Structure (CAS) allows DHS to integrate the strategic programmatic view with our budget view of resources. With this structure, a significant portion of the Level 1 PPAs represent what DHS refers to as our mission programs. Mission support programs are also an important subset of our Level 1 PPAs that provide products and/or services to mission programs. Mission support capabilities include research and development, intelligence, training, and information sharing. Mission support programs may be cross-cutting and support multiple mission programs. Mission support also includes enterprise leadership, management and/or business administration services and describes the capabilities and activities that support the day-to-day management and back office functions enabling the Department to operate efficiently and effectively. Performance measures associated with our programs are presented in two measure sets, strategic and management measures."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Federal Law Enforcement Training Center' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) provide career-long training to law enforcement professionals to help them fulfill their responsibilities safely and proficiently. Over the past 46 years, FLETC has grown into the Nation's largest provider of law enforcement training. Under a collaborative training model, FLETC's Federal partner organizations deliver training unique to their missions, while FLETC provides training in areas common to all law enforcement officers, such as firearms, driving, tactics, investigations, and legal training. Partner agencies realize quantitative and qualitative benefits from this model, including the efficiencies inherent in shared services, higher quality training, and improved interoperability. FLETC's mission is to train all those who protect the homeland, and therefore, its training audience also includes State, local, and tribal departments throughout the United States. Additionally, FLETC's impact extends outside our Nation's borders through international training and capacity-building activities. To ensure the training it offers is up-to-date and relevant to emerging needs, FLETC's curriculum development and review process engages experts from across all levels of law enforcement, and FLETC partners extensively with other agencies and stakeholders in training research and the exchange of best practices to ensure it offers the most effective training subject matter, technologies, and methodologies."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Analysis and Operations' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Proposed Legislative Language: "For necessary expenses of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the Office of Operations Coordination, as authorized by title 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.), [$265,719,000]; $252,405,000, for operations and support; of which not to exceed $3,825 shall be for official reception and representation expenses; of which not to exceed $2,000,000 is available for facility needs associated with secure space at fusion centers, including improvements to buildings; and of which [$110,091,000] $77,915,795 shall remain available until September 30,[2018] 2019. 'Note.--A full-year 2017 appropriation for this account was not enacted at the time the budget was prepared; therefore, the budget assumes this account is operating under the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (P.L. 114-254). The amounts included for 2017 reflect the annualized level provided by the continuing resolution'."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Customs and Border Protection' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is responsible for securing America's borders to protect the United States against terrorist threats and prevent the illegal entry of inadmissible persons and contraband, while facilitating lawful travel, trade, and immigration. Along over 5,000 miles of border with Canada; 1,900 miles of border with Mexico; and approximately 95,000 miles of shoreline, CBP is responsible for preventing the illegal movement of people and contraband. The FY 2019 President's Budget provides $16.7B in total budget authority to support CBP's mission. This represents an increase of $362.9M over the FY 2018 President's Budget."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Federal Emergency Management Agency': Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2018 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is comprised of [various] programs that support achievement of the DHS strategic missions, goals, and objectives. Procurement, Construction, and Improvements programs are indented below the mission-oriented programs they support. Additionally, applicable fees and funds are also indented below the mission-oriented programs to which they most closely align."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the principal criminal investigative agency within U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ICE is responsible for enforcing U.S. immigration law by identifying, arresting, detaining, and removing illegal aliens from the U.S. ICE has over 20,000 employees deployed across all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and 50 foreign countries. For FY 2019, ICE requests $8.6B in total budget authority. This represents an increase of $626.1M over the FY 2018 President's Budget. The FY 2019 President's Budget continues the funding policies as set forth in the FY 2018 President's Budget and fully supports the priorities of the Secretary. This includes an increase of over 3,000 new positions to support 20 percent of the 10,000 Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) and commensurate support staff mandated in Executive Order (EO) 13768 Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States. The FY 2019 President's Budget also provides the necessary mission support, facilities, infrastructure and technology to enforce our Nation's customs and immigration laws."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Coast Guard' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The strategic context presents the performance budget by tying together strategy, budget resource requests, programs, or PPAs [programs, projects, and activities], and performance measures that gauge the delivery of results to our stakeholders. The U.S. Coast Guard has one discretionary appropriation, Operations and Support, to which it's publically [sic] reported measures align. These measures are presented in two measure sets, strategic and management measures, and are listed under descriptions for the six U.S. Coast Guard mission programs."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Transportation Security Administration' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Executive Summary: "For FY 2019, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) requests $7,726.1M in total gross budget authority. This represents an increase of $143.8M over the FY 2018 President's Budget. This budget request continues the funding policies as set forth in the FY 2018 President's Budget for TSA and fully supports the priorities of the Secretary. These policies include: 1) maintaining frontline screening operations, 2) transitioning to new technologies while continuing to maintain current screening equipment, and 3) creating efficiencies and optimizing limited resources. The reductions taken in the FY 2018 President's Budget, including the reduction of Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams, the elimination of the Law Enforcement Officer Reimbursement Program, and decreases to TSA's major equipment investments, continue in this budget request."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Secret Service' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The U.S. Secret Service carries out a unique, integrated mission of protection and investigations. The Secret Service protects the President, Vice President, former Presidents and their spouses, foreign visiting heads of state and government, and National Special Security Events (NSSEs); safeguards the Nation's financial infrastructure and payment systems to preserve the integrity of the economy; investigates financial, and cybercrimes; and protects the White House Complex, the Vice-President's residence and other designated buildings within the Washington, D.C. area."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'United States Citizenship and Immigration Services' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The strategic context presents the performance budget by tying together strategy, budget resource requests, programs, or PPAs [programs, projects, activities], and performance measures that gauge the delivery of results to our stakeholders. The Common Appropriation Structure (CAS) allows DHS to integrate the strategic programmatic view with our budget view of resources. With this structure, a significant portion of the Level 1 PPAs represent what DHS refers to as our mission programs. A mission program is a group of activities acting together to accomplish a specific high-level outcome external to DHS and include operational processes, skills, technology, human capital, and other resources."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security 'Office of Inspector General' Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Document: "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts and supervises independent audits, inspections, and investigations and recommends ways for DHS to carry out its vital responsibilities in the most effective, efficient, and economical manner possible. The OIG seeks to deter, identify, and address fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and waste of taxpayer funds invested in homeland security. The OIG is an independent entity to which employees, contractors, and the public can report fraud, waste, and abuse that affects the Department. Results of its findings are reported to the DHS Secretary, Congress, and the public, when appropriate. The OIG seeks to ensure improved transparency, accountability, and efficiency across the Department."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Session 6 - Pandemic Flu Preparedness - Konkel
This is the city of Wichita, Kansas's emergency preparedness plan for combating pandemic flu season.
Wichita (Kan.)
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Clinical Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Infections When Novel Coronavirus is Suspected: What to Do and What Not to Do
"The emergence of novel coronavirus in 2012 […] has presented challenges for clinical management. Pneumonia has been the most common clinical presentation; five patients developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Renal failure, pericarditis and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) have also occurred. Our knowledge of the clinical features of coronavirus infection is limited and no virus-specific prevention or treatment (e.g. vaccine or antiviral drugs) is available. Thus, this interim guidance document aims to help clinicians with supportive management of patients who have acute respiratory failure and septic shock as a consequence of severe infection. Because other complications have been seen (renal failure, pericarditis, DIC, as above) clinicians should monitor for the development of these and other complications of severe infection and treat them according to local management guidelines. As all confirmed cases reported to date have occurred in adults, this document focuses on the care of adolescents and adults. Paediatric considerations will be added later. This document will be updated as more information becomes available and after the revised Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines are published later this year (1). This document is for clinicians taking care of critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). It will be helpful if you work in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) that has limited resources -- i.e. limited access to mechanical ventilation, invasive hemodynamic monitoring and arterial blood gas analyzers -- or if you have limited access to specialty training. It is not meant to replace clinical training or specialist consultation but rather to strengthen your current clinical management of SARI and link you to the most up-to-date guidance. This document is organized into four sections, which correspond to clinical management steps. Section 1 focuses on the early recognition and management of patients with SARI and includes early initiation of supportive and infection prevention and control measures, and therapeutics. Section 2 focuses on management of patients who deteriorate and develop severe respiratory distress and ARDS. Section 3 focuses on the management of patients who deteriorate and develop septic shock. Section 4 focuses on ongoing care of the critically ill patient and best practices to prevent complications."
World Health Organization
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Supporting the Financial Resilience of Citizens Throughout the COVID-19 Crisis
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has wide implications for the socio-economic fabric worldwide. In addition to health fears, citizens are facing a host of financial uncertainties stemming from the temporary closure of businesses, schools, public facilities and quarantines, as well as instability in the stock market and retirement income uncertainties. These can result in lost income, trouble paying bills, and meeting other financial obligations, as well as the risk of falling victim to scams and fraud. Policy makers worldwide need to increase the awareness of citizens about effective means to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential long-term consequences for their financial resilience and well-being."
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Hospital Preparedness: Multidisciplinary Pandemic Influenza Planning
"Hospitals' planning processes for pandemic preparedness should incorporate multiple disciplines, including such departments as materials management, security, occupational health, and other relevant departments or disciplines."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Pandemic Flu How Does Seasonal Flu Differ from Pandemic Flu?
Side-by-side comparison of seasonal and pandemic flu.
North Dakota. Department of Health
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Pandemic Flu History
This web page provides a history of pandemic flu in the United States since 1918.
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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Influenza Pandemic Preparedness: A Concept Plan to Prepare for the Contingency of a Major Global Pandemic of Influenza
"The WHO and health authorities worldwide have recognized that the world is under threat of a major pandemic of influenza which could potentially have serious effects on the health of the human population. Major pandemics have occurred in 1889, 1918/19, 1957 and 1968 and another major pandemic may well occur in the near future. The 1918/19 pandemic of influenza was one of the most devastating epidemics of an infectious disease to have affected mankind. This pandemic was directly responsible for over 20 million deaths, more than perished in conflict in the preceding Great War, and mainly affected previously healthy young adults. In South Africa the pandemic killed over 300 000 persons, overwhelming the ability of the authorities to dispose of the corpses, in addition to the total paralysis of the healthcare facilities for treating patients. Following on this epidemic there was, also, considerable post-epidemic morbidity in the form of encephalitis lethargica. Unfortunately science has not yet developed the tools to be able to predict when and where a future major pandemic will occur or what the impact of it will be. For this reason countries throughout the world have been invited to prepare contingency plans in the event of a future major pandemic. Were such an event to occur in the future, this would result in a vast demand for vaccine which could result in inequitable distribution as well as major demands for drugs such as antivirals and antibiotics.The WHO has established an influenza pandemic task force to prepare a blueprint plan to guide governments in preparing for the next pandemic. Account will need to be taken of this document when it does appear, probably towards the end of this year, in finalizing a definitive pandemic preparedness plan."
National Institute for Virology (South Africa)
Schoub, Barry D.
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Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan [Lithuania]
"Influenza and other acute respiratory infections (hereafter - ARI) cause the most harm to residents' health and stipulate most social and economic waste of all communicable diseases. Increase of population incidence and mortality during influenza epidemic condition not only influenza and pneumonias, but also cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, the exacerbation of which is instigated by influenza infection. After increasing incidence of pneumonia and other chronic diseases, more patients are hospitalised. Different complications occur mostly and are more dangerous for elderly people and people suffering from chronic diseases. During influenza epidemic about of 80% of cause the death of elderly people (65 years and elder). There are registered from 40 to 190 thousand cases of influenza annually (in average - 100 thousand). Yearly about 500 million of people worldwide get sick with influenza."
Republic of Lithuania
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Maine: Pandemic Influenza Operations Plan
This webpage provides the most recent version of Maine's Pandemic Influenza Operations Plan. It includes the Base Plan and respective Functional Annexes. Taken from website: "Beginning in 2005, Maine CDC and others developed their Pandemic Influenza Operations Plan based on the probability of the occurrence of a pandemic strain with a much higher severity index rate such as H5H1 rather than H1N1 of 2009, which had a much lower severity index. The Plan has been revised and designed to be adaptable and scalable to facilitate a customized response depending on the severity and transmissibility of the circulating novel virus. Also of note in this revision: (1) The Plan includes a refinement of both the Maine Levels and Maine Pandemic Periods, which serve as a more precise set of 'trigger points' for suggested actions relevant to a pandemic in Maine (2) The Post Pandemic Recovery Period is more fully developed (3) The planning Assumptions have been updated (4) The Lessons Learned derived from the H1N1 Pandemic of 2009 experience have been identified and incorporated in to the Plan to strengthen Maine's readiness for, response to, and recovery from a future pandemic event and (5) Several new Supplements have been added to the Plan to enrich the reference, and to be consistent with the HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan."
Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
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Resurgence of Al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq
"The Syrian civil war has allowed al-Qaeda to recover from its setbacks up to 2010. Its main affiliate in the region seems to be testing a new strategy of collaboration with other salafist-jihadist groups and a less brutal implementation of Sharia law in areas its controls. In combination, this might allow the Al Nusrah Front to carve out the sort of territorial control of a region (or state) that al-Qaeda has sought ever since its eviction from Afghanistan. On the other hand, Syria has also seen a civil war between two al-Qaeda inspired factions (Al Nusrah and the Iraq-based Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and there are indications of limits to al-Qaeda's ability to cooperate with other anti-Assad factions and gain popular appeal. The extent that the Syrian civil war offers the means for al-Qaeda to recover from its earlier defeats will determine whether the organization has a future, or if it will become simply an ideology and label adopted by various Islamist movements fighting their own separate struggles."
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Ibrahim, Azeem
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Homeland Security Affairs Journal [website]
"Homeland Security Affairs is the online journal of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the Naval Postgraduate School and is the nation's preeminent peer-reviewed journal providing a forum to propose and debate strategies, policies, and organizational arrangements to strengthen U.S. Homeland Security. The instructors, participants, alumni, and partners of CHDS represent the leading subject matter experts and practitioners in the field of Homeland Security. E-published by issue, Homeland Security Affairs captures the best of their collective work, as well as that of scholars and practitioners throughout the nation, through peer-reviewed articles on new strategies, policies, concepts and data relating to every aspect of Homeland Security. These articles constitute not only the 'smart practices' but also the evolution of Homeland Security as an emerging academic and professional discipline."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
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Environmental Justice Annual Implementation Progress Report (FY 2016)
From the Introduction: "On February 11, 1994, President William Jefferson Clinton issued Executive Order (EO) 12898, 'Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations,' requiring each covered agency to 'make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations.' [...] This report summarizes the Department's progress toward achieving the goals of EO 12898 during fiscal year (FY) 2016."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Supporting State Behavioral Health Systems During COVID-19 Response and Recovery
From the Background: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is having immediate and long-term impacts on behavioral health (i.e. mental health and substance use disorder) systems in all states. Governors and their senior health and human services advisors play an essential role in incorporating a behavioral health strategy into the state COVID-19 response and recovery approach. [...] This paper identifies for Governors the key issues that are currently challenging state behavioral health systems, along with actions that state agencies may consider to support and sustain behavioral health services. Many of the issues identified below are still emerging and state and federal actions will require ongoing follow up to determine outcomes."
National Governors' Association
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Department of Homeland Security 'Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction': Budget Overview (Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Justification)
From the Component Overview: "The strategic context presents the performance budget by tying together strategy, budget resource requests, programs, or PPAs, and performance measures that gauge the delivery of results to our stakeholders. The Common Appropriation Structure (CAS) allows DHS to integrate the strategic programmatic view with our budget view of resources. With this structure, a significant portion of the Level 1 PPAs represent what DHS refers to as our mission programs. A mission program is a group of activities acting together to accomplish a specific high-level outcome external to DHS and include operational processes, skills, technology, human capital, and other resources. The Capability and Operational Support and the Capability Building programs for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) have publically reported measures. These measures are presented in two measure sets, strategic and management measures. Strategic measures communicate results delivered for our agency goals and are considered our Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA) measures. Additional management measures are displayed to provide a more thorough context of expected program performance for the Component related to its budgetary plans."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
