Emergency Management

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Emergency Management Homeland Security Interface

• Samuel Musa
• National Defense University

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Innovation Opportunities

• Many innovations have been produced as a result
  of the intersection/boundaries of
  multi-disciplines
• Interdisciplinary fields of study and Centers of
  Excellence have grown in academia to take
  advantage of these opportunities
• Emergency Management and Homeland Security are
  two distinct fields that could benefit from an in
  depth study of their intersection

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Innovation is at the Boundaries
Risk Assessment Methodology
Homeland Security
Emergency Management
Hazards
Command, Control Communications
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Process
Intelligence Community
Threat Indicators
Risk Assessment
FBI
Vulnerabilities
Innovation
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Higher Education

• Strategic Thinking
• Policy Implications
• Science and Technology
• Leadership Skills

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New NDU Program

• Masters Degree in Strategic Security Studies with
  a concentration in ST Policy and Leadership
• Pilot program starting in September 2009
• Students from DHS ST, OIP, TSA, FEMA,USCG, and
  Secret Service

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Potential CISA Masters Curriculum with Homeland
Security ST Policy and Leadership Concentration
Spring
Fall

• Geostrategy
• Strategic thought

• Power, Ideology and Legitimacy

Core Strategy

• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Strategic Leadership for Homeland Security

Homeland Security Policy and Leadership

• Foundations of Homeland Security

• ST for Homeland Security
• Elective

• Science and Technology Strategy
• ST Policy, Organizations and Operations

ST Policy

• Thesis Research
• Thesis Writing

• Methods of Argumentation and Analysis
• Thesis Research

ST Research (Target Capabilities List)
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Benefits of Program

• Potential career development path for senior ST
  policy and leadership positions
• Assess long term DHS research requirements and
  measure costs and risks associated with given
  areas of technology
• Enlighten prudent assessments of
  technology-dependant proposals
• Facilitate discourse among ST staff throughout
  DHS
• Prepare leaders to orient themselves
  strategically and apply critical thinking to
  homeland security challenges of the future

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Backup Charts
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Core Strategy Curriculum

• Analyze 21st century geopolitical environment
  characterized by rise of non-state armed groups
  and uneven erosion of state sovereignty.
• Evaluate roles of power and ideology, rise of
  newly empowered and politicized ideological
  movements, and bases for authority and
  legitimacy.
• Understand relationship between political
  objectives, strategy, and all instruments of
  national power.
• Develop skills to think critically and
  strategically, to differentiate between policy
  and analysis, and to apply knowledge to practice
  in collaborative and complex circumstances with
  diverse partners.

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Homeland Security Policy Leadership Curriculum

• Understand the foundations and doctrine of
  Homeland Security including threat definition and
  assessment, means for securing the Homeland,
  organization and coordination issues, and
  constraints on roles and missions. Areas covered
  include Homeland security strategies, plan
  development, working vocabulary, and methodology
  for project assessment
• Think critically about strategic challenges in
  homeland security, identify solutions, and
  develop strategies for effective utilization of
  national resources and capabilities
• Analyze critical infrastructure protection from
  historical perspectives processes, players and
  resources threat, gaps and opportunities
  overview the National Infrastructure Protection
  Plan (NIPP), including specific sector plans
• Build organizational responses to vulnerability
  and hazards and towards resilience in the Target
  Capabilities List (TCL)
• Apply principles and practices of Project
  Management to Homeland Security

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ST Curriculum

• Analyze key technologies and scientific research
  that will shape homeland security in the coming
  decades
• Understand key parameters of a science and
  technology strategy including environment and
  operational requirements, infrastructure,
  critical skills resource strategy and
  implementation
• Understand the role of ST in the development of
  homeland security policy. Relevant issues include
  technology adaptation in complex organizations,
  gaps between operations and technology
  development, relations between technologists and
  policymakers, trade-offs in senior level decision
  making, and the limited role of technology in the
  need to bring to bear capabilities other than
  technology in order to win homeland security
  conflicts
• Understand how we evaluate technology research,
  test evaluation, peer reviews, research and
  technical selection methodology, metrics, and
  implementation plans
• Understand methods of analysis and argumentation
  for decision-makers focusing on modern complex
  security challenges such as terrorism. Analyze
  logic of arguments, approach of different natural
  sciences, social sciences, mathematics, law, and
  politics

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Potential Electives

• CISA 6934Science, Technology and National
  Security
• CISA6932 Science and Policy of Biowarfare
  Bioterrorism
• IRMC 6201(3 credit day)Cyber Security for
  Information Leaders
• IRMC 6507(3 cr day) Homeland Security
  Information Management
• IRMC 6503(3 cr day) Homeland Security Tools and
  Techniques
• NDU 6001 (day) Science and Technology for
  National and Homeland Security (To be modified)
• Science and Technology Policy, Organization
  Operations(To be developed)
• Science and Technology Strategy (To be developed)

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Potential ST Course I

• Science and Technology Strategy
• Environment and Operational Requirements
• Technologies that would meet requirements in 5,
  10, 20 years
• ST Infrastructure
• Critical ST skills and path to achieve needed
  workforce
• Resourcing Strategy
• Implementation Plans

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Potential ST Course II

• Technology Adaptation in Complex Organizations
• Gaps between Operations and Technology
• Relationships between Technology Leaders and
  Policy Makers