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Mission vision statement:

To mobilize the American effort for preventing terrorist and other attacks, preparing for disasters, and assuring the resilience of civil society and the critical networks and functions that are essential to preserving a free and prosperous nation. We achieve this by providing active leadership, removing barriers, and providing incentives for the sustained engagement of the American people, the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and our international partners.

Goals:

  1. Counter terrorists and other malicious actors.
  2. Protect critical human, physical, and cyber infrastructure and the services they provide.
  3. Prevent illicit access to and movement of dangerous capabilities and material.
  4. Prevent loss of life and property from natural and manmade hazards (shared goal with Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering From Disasters).
  5. Foster a prepared, informed, and empowered citizenry and local communities (shared goal with Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering From Disasters).
  6. Build and sustain robust critical systems, networks, and functions.
  7. Ensure levels of readiness to rapidly respond and recover (shared goal with Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering From Disasters).

The content you see is the actual work product of the QHSR study groups. Please note: this is not final, vetted DHS policy.

  1. Mission vision statement: To mobilize the American effort for preventing terrorist and other attacks, preparing for disasters, and assuring the resilience of civil society and the critical netwo...

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  1. Goals

    by gwolfe from Railroad Sector Coordinating Counsel (RSCC) on August 10, 2009 at 09:33AM

    Goals should be well defined and success should be measurable. We suggest the following additions: Adopt an integrated risk based approach to analyze, plan and respond to homeland security thre...

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    • Mission

      by gwolfe from Railroad Sector Coordinating Counsel (RSCC) on August 10, 2009 at 09:21AM

      Disagree. The mision statement should include: The Government should provide for homeland security by fully and uniformly supporting the domestic efforts of critical infrastructure owners/operator...

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      • Mission

        by gwolfe from Railroad Sector Coordinating Counsel (RSCC) on August 10, 2009 at 09:20AM

        Disagree, The mision statement should include: The Government should provide for homeland security by fully and uniformly supporting the domestic efforts of critical infrastructure owners/operator...

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        • Mission Vision Statement: It is the mission of the United States Homeland Security division of Counterterrorism and Domestic Security Management to provide continuous mobilization of the United...

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          • On The Threat of Economic Espionage And Cyber Terrorism

            by kwilson from Citizens Advisory Coalition on August 08, 2009 at 01:58PM

            When it comes to dealing with the extant danger of economic or military espionage, one of our best assets is E-Verify. To this end, E-Verify should noit only assume top priority to the Department ...

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            • FPS Portal

              by comodt from Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, Minneapolis, MN on August 07, 2009 at 10:37PM

              The FPS Portal is a wonerful tool for facilitating interagency communications.

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              • We must ake a strong distinction between malicious actors versus normal citizen protest. There is a current movement to demonize those who just diagree with the administration. This is totally dif...

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                • Coordinated regional response/assistance

                  by bgeorge from Pasadena police Department on August 07, 2009 at 04:14PM

                  We should ensure that organizations are training for a coordinated/consistent response to a major incident with their allied/partnering agencies.

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                  • Why human rights matter

                    by jwalsh from UNC Charlotte on August 07, 2009 at 02:43PM

                    "Efforts to achieve these objectives must always respect human rights. Human rights are an integral and valuable part of the American political tradition. Respecting human rights--especially the r...

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                  • Surface the TSA's role, reign it in

                    by JDLH from Self on August 07, 2009 at 05:17AM

                    Specifically mention transportation and/or the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the Counterterrorism goals, especially #1 (Counter malicious actors), #2 (Protect infrastructure), an...

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