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1. Examine the Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security and their mission, operations, and operations are as follows:
Mission:
The vision of homeland security is to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and way of life can thrive.
Three key concepts form the foundation of our national homeland security strategy designed to achieve this vision:
1. Security
2. Resilience
3. Customs and Exchange
The Core Missions
There are five homeland security missions:
1. Prevent terrorism and enhancing security
2. Secure and manage our borders
3. Enforce and administer our immigration laws
4. Safeguard and secure cyberspace
5. Ensure resilience to disasters
Operations:
The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning is responsible for monitoring the security of the United States on a daily basis and coordinating activities within the Department and with governors, Homeland Security Advisors, law enforcement partners, and critical infrastructure operators in all 50 States and more than 50 major urban areas nationwide.
The Office is responsible for the following operations:
* Conducting joint operations across all organizational elements
* Coordinating activities related to incident management.
* Employing all Department resources to translate intelligence and policy into action
* Overseeing the National Operations Center (NOC), which collects and fuses information from more than 35 Federal, State, territorial, tribal, local, and private sector agencies
Information is shared and fused on a daily basis by the two halves of the Office that are referred to as the “Intelligence Side” and the “Law Enforcement Side.” Each half is identical and functions in tandem with the other, but requires a different level...