United States Department of Defense

creation of the Department of Homeland Security. This paper will discuss the interaction between the concepts of homeland security and homeland defense and will outline the…

Intelligence Community concerning information sharing, integrating intelligence, and following through on potential intelligence leads. This led to organizational changes with the establishment of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The Intelligence Community consists of 16 organizations, led by the DNI. Each organization works within the DNI’s policy framework. The DNI established IC policy…

across a transcript as the speaker for a discussion held by Hudson on defense technology in a globalized market. Weinstein identified that "one of the most important work -- parts of the work we do here at Hudson is assessing present and future threats to national security and securing our nation's most important military assets and advanced technologies," ( CQ Transcriptions, par 2). He explains much of how Hudson works towards defense technology and preventing that this technology be used by…

other, external stakeholder organizations. This paper identifies a few historical challenges that the Department of Defense and other federal agencies faced in the past, how those organizations sought to overcome those challenges, and how these solutions can apply to other public organizations. Historical Challenges Communication and operational synchronization within the Department of Defense are two particularly notable historical challenges. During the conflict in Vietnam…

SUBJECT: Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected vehicle (MRAP) The Purpose of this paper is to address the Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicle and its fielding issues, all its hazards. This paper will also talk about the efforts to mitigate the hazards from current usage in the field. The protection this vehicle can provide almost doesn’t out way the lives it can take with the hazards involved with it. Some background on the MRAP and what it was made for. The MRAP was designed in a…

Progress Assignment Risky Management is what some would note as the bread and butter in Homeland Security and Homeland Defense. There are many aspects which are vital to the protection of America’s personnel, infrastructure and resources. However, risk management is one of the most important tools in the box to protect America. Risk management provides a unique opportunity for an organization to identify and evaluate their vulnerabilities. It also affords an organization the ability to…

miles a minute in your brain about the risk. Your thinking, “is this safe? How safe is this? What are the risk to doing this?” Every day the Department of Homeland Security is doing this risk assessment on everything in its control. These assessments are being done on facilities, areas, events and personnel that it is ultimately responsible for. The Department of Homeland Security has a formula to assign a level to the assessments being done. Risk Assessment Basics There are many forms of risk…

remains whether this is a good idea. As of January 24, 2013, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta removed the military’s ban on woman serving in combat roles and on December 3, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ash Crater proceeded with Panetta’s request and completed this process (“Pentagon Says Women Can Now Serve in Front-Line Ground Combat Positions”, 2015). This has created a great amount of controversy between the United States armed forces. It is evident that U.S. military is striving to…

23rd of January in 2013 was a historic day for women in the United States, because the Department of Defense lifted the ban that didn’t allow women to fight in combat. During the 2012-13 year, over 214,098 women were serving in illegally. On this day, they were finally allowed to serve in combat positions. After the 23rd of January 2013, the Department of Defense recognized the contributions that women have made to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and have since realized that we don’t…

As the DHS keeps on asserting itself as an effective department for hazard protection, it would need to overcome the problem of the alpha male notion to make it work effective. This follows the fact that each agency under the DHS wants to prove superior to the others and thus resulting into wolf packs. The alpha males might display instances of fighting once a rival wolf crosses their path since each agency wants to be a leader rather than a pack member. As a result, the inner fighting between…