Key Missions and Goals in the 2012 Department of Homeland Security Strategic Plan

Key Missions and Goals in the 2012 Department of Homeland Security Strategic Plan

According to Zappile (2014), the Department of Homeland Security was developed after the 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States. One of the missions of the department based on the 2012 strategic plan is to prevent terrorism and increase security. This mission is linked to three goals (Oliver et al., 2019). The goals include preventing terrorist attacks, protecting against and preventing the unlawful use and purchase of biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological capabilities and materials, and reducing the threat to the country’s crucial leadership, critical events, and infrastructure. The second mission is managing and securing the United State’s borders. This mission includes three goals (Oliver et al., 2019). The goals include securing the United States sea, land, and air approaches and borders, expediting and safeguarding lawful travel and trade, and dismantling and disrupting transnational criminal organizations and other illegal actors. The third mission is to enforce and administer the United States immigration laws. The mission’s goals include effectively governing and strengthening the immigration system and preventing illegal immigration.

The fourth mission is to secure and safeguard cyberspace. The main goals of this mission include reinforcing the reliance on and security of critical infrastructure, safeguarding the federal civilian government IT initiative, strengthening the ecosystem, and improving incident response, law enforcement, and reporting competencies (Oliver et al., 2019). The critical infrastructure’s resilience and security are strengthened by enhancing the exchange of intelligence and information on threats to critical infrastructure and developing real-time situational awareness, identifying and comprehending the flowing impacts and interdependencies among critical infrastructure frameworks, partnering with critical infrastructure operators and owners to ensure the delivery of essential functions and services, reducing vulnerabilities and promoting resilient designs of critical infrastructure, and collaborating with the private sector and agencies to develop and identify effective cyber security best practices and policies.

Securing the federal civilian government IT enterprise includes ensuring that the government standards and policies are effectively and consistently measured and implemented, equipping the networks used by civilian governments with innovative cyber security protections and tools, and coordinating the government acquisition of cyber security technology to increase cost-effectiveness (Oliver et al., 2019). Strengthening the ecosystem includes developing skilled cyber security professionals, driving cost-effective and innovative security solutions, services, and products throughout the cyber ecosystem, advancing global engagement to promote global standards, capacity building and collaboration, transitioning and conducting research and development, facilitating a reliable cyber security infrastructure, enhancing public awareness, and promoting best practices in cyber security.

The fifth mission is strengthening national resilience and preparedness. The main goals linked to this mission include enhancing national preparedness, ensuring effective emergency response, mitigating vulnerabilities and hazards, and enabling rapid recovery (Oliver et al., 2019). Enhancing national preparedness includes developing and sustaining fundamental capabilities to prevent, protect against, respond to, mitigate, and recover from all threats, empowering communities and individuals to maintain and strengthen their preparedness, and assisting federal bodies in creating effective continuity programs that are improved, implemented, and updated regularly. The effectiveness of emergency response is ensured by providing appropriate and timely disaster assistance, ensuring effective communications of emergencies, conducting unified, effective incident response operations, and providing accurate and timely information.

According to Oliver et al.(2019), mitigating vulnerabilities and hazards includes preventing incidents by ensuring and establishing compliance with regulations and standards, reducing vulnerability through regulations, standards, resilient design, disaster reduction, and effective mitigation measures, and promoting private and public sector understanding and awareness of risks that may affect the community. Rapid recovery is enabled by supporting and allowing the communities to rebuild smarter, stronger, and safer environments and ensuring the restoration and continuity of essential functions and services.

References

Oliver, W. M., Marion, N. E., & Hill, J. B. (2019). Introduction to Homeland Security: Policy, organization, and administration. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Zappile, T. (2014). Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Richard Stockton College, Galloway, New Jersey, U.S.A.

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Willard M. Oliver, Nancy E. Marion, Joshua B. Hill, 2015
Jones and Bartlett
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