We will pursue the following strategies to strengthen the DHS international affairs enterprise in support of homeland security missions:. Description: Technology and homeland security are inextricably linked. A vast array of interdependent information technology networks, systems, services, and resources enable communication, facilitate travel, power our homes, run our economy and provide essential government services.
These systems provide enormous benefits to our society and economy, but they also create new risks and vulnerabilities. DHS must endeavor to keep pace with technology and leverage research and development toward homeland security goals. Description: In an era of decreasing budgets and resources, partners across the Department must strive to find and develop innovative solutions for training, exercising, and evaluating capabilities.
Achieving baseline proficiency and maintaining high levels of readiness in homeland security-related individual and collective skills and knowledge are critical to a unified partnership of law enforcement, first responders, and other front-line operators. We will pursue the following strategies to train and exercise frontline operators and first responders:. Description: To support priority security requirements in a sustainable way, we must become more efficient and effective across a large and federated structure.
As a Department, we must eliminate duplicative processes, develop common platforms, and purchase single solutions. In addition, the safety and security of our country can only be achieved through the hard work and dedication of our employees, with a diverse array of backgrounds, experiences, skills, and ideas.
Our workforce serves as the foundation to ensure continued growth of our collective ability to prevent and respond to the threats facing the nation. An Agency Priority Goal is a near-term result or achievement that agency leadership wants to accomplish within approximately 24 months that relies predominantly on agency implementation as opposed to budget or legislative accomplishments.
Click below to see this agency's FY Priority Goals. Combatting Transnational Criminal Organizations. Statement: Decrease the ability of targeted transnational criminal organizations to conduct illicit activities impacting the southern border and approaches region of the United States. There is no single structure under which transnational organized criminals operate; they vary from hierarchies to clans, networks, and cells, and may evolve to other structures.
The region includes approximately 2, miles of land border with Mexico, 3, miles of coastline along California, the Gulf of Mexico, and Florida, as well as the airspace spanning U.
This threat is based on their ability to generate massive illicit profits, which they have been known to use to suborn public officials and law enforcement, and perpetuate drug-related violence and other crimes, such as kidnappings and extortion. Customs and Border Protection, U. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the U. Coast Guard, and to prioritize and target threat streams operating in the Southern Border and Approaches region, as well as combat TCO activity and splinter organizations present within the U.
Daily actions are taken to counter and degrade threats posed by TCOs, but true disruptions and dismantlements of operations are hard won battles. Disruptions and dismantlements incapacitate threats from targeted TCOs, represent the best and most enduring successes against these criminal organizations, and demonstrate gains to border security made possible through coordinated law enforcement campaigns.
Since new threats continuously present themselves, new lists are created throughout each year that targets the highest priority threats. Enhance Disaster Preparedness and Response. By September 30, , 70 percent of states and territories will achieve an intermediate or above proficiency toward meeting the targets established through their Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment THIRA.
Description: FEMA continues to allocate resources to supplement whole community investment to prepare for the greatest challenge in emergency management—a catastrophic disaster. In order to successfully respond to and recover from a catastrophic event, the whole community, including FEMA, state and local governments, and individuals that may be affected, need to build and sustain capabilities and implement the National Preparedness System to achieve the National Preparedness Goal of a secure and resilient Nation.
Strengthen aviation security counterterrorism capabilities by using intelligence driven information and risk-based decisions.
Enforce and administer our immigration laws through prioritized detention and removal of criminal aliens. Ensure resilience to disasters by strengthening disaster preparedness and response capabilities. Skip to main content. Primary tabs View active tab Show Changes. Mission: The Department of Homeland Security will: Prevent terrorism and enhance security; Secure and manage our borders; Enforce and administer our immigration laws; Safeguard and secure cyberspace; and Strengthen national preparedness and resilience.
What are Themes? Themes list the issue or policy areas that are used to group similar goals and objectives. National Defense. Each objective is tracked through a suite of performance goals, indicators and other evidence that facilitate planning, management, reporting, and evaluation.
Agency Priority Goals are a limited number of specific performance targets, usually 2—8, that advance progress toward longer-term outcomes. Agency Priority Goals are near-term results or achievements that leadership wants to accomplish within approximately 24 months. These goals rely predominantly on agency implementation as opposed to budget or legislative accomplishments. Success Stories What are Success Stories? Success Stories highlight the impact agencies are having using performance management tools on helping them better achieve their mission.
Overview The Department of Homeland Security has a vital mission : to secure the nation from the many threats we face. Performance Data Verification and Validation Process The Department recognizes the importance of collecting complete, accurate, and reliable performance data since this helps determine progress toward achieving program and Department goals and objectives.
Performance Measure Checklist for Completeness and Reliability The Performance Measure Checklist for Completeness and Reliability is a means for Component Performance Improvement Officers PIOs to attest to the quality of the information they are providing in our performance and accountability reports. The Department worked to ensure the broadest possible outreach to critical state, local, tribal and territorial partners as well as the general public, including through: Stakeholder call for comment events; Collaborative National QHSR Dialogue; and Stakeholder Executive Committee Meetings.
Strategic Goal: Mission 1: Prevent terrorism and enhance security. Statement: Prevent terrorism and enhance security. Goal 1. Statement: Prevent Terrorist Attacks Description: The Department remains vigilant to new and evolving threats in order to protect the Nation from a terrorist attack. We will pursue the following strategies to prevent terrorist attacks: Analyze, fuse, and disseminate terrorism information by sharing information with, and utilizing threat analysis alongside, stakeholders across the homeland security enterprise.
We remain committed to integrating critical data sources, such as those for biometric data, by consolidating or federating screening and vetting operations. We will also continually increase and integrate domain awareness capabilities, as well as improve our ability to fully utilize vast amounts of intelligence and other information—the so-called "big data" challenge—while rigorously protecting privacy and civil rights and civil liberties.
Deter and disrupt operations by leveraging the intelligence, information sharing, technological, operational, and policy-making elements within DHS to facilitate a cohesive and coordinated operational response. We will also develop intelligence sources and leverage research and analysis to identify and illustrate the tactics, behaviors, and indicators potentially associated with violent extremism as well as factors that may influence violent extremism, and jointly develop with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners training for frontline law enforcement officers on behaviors that may be telling regarding violent extremist activity.
Strengthen transportation security by using a multi-layered risk-based approach to detect malicious actors and dangerous items at various entry and exit points in the travel and trade system.
We will also improve coordination with foreign governments and stakeholders to expand pre-departure screening and enhance transportation security operations among willing partners to mitigate risks from overseas. Counter violent extremism by: 1 supporting community-community-based problem solving and integration efforts, as well as local law enforcement programs; and 2 working with our partners to share information with frontline law enforcement partners, communities, families, and the private sector about how violent extremists are using the Internet and how to protect themselves and their communities.
Priority Goal: Strengthen aviation security counterterrorism capabilities by using intelligence driven information and risk-based decisions. We will pursue the following strategies to prevent and protect against the unauthorized acquisition or use of chemical biological, radiological, and nuclear materials and capabilities: Anticipate chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear emerging threats by identifying and understanding potentially dangerous actors, technologies, and materials, and prioritizing research and development activities including: 1 analyses of alternative technology options; 2 assessments of complex issues such as the relative risk of different chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats; 3 experimentation and operational test and evaluation of technologies proposed for acquisition; 4 detailed technical characterization of potential biological threat organisms; 5 the creation of consensus standards that enable cost-effective progress across many fields; and 6 the determination of nuclear material characteristics through nuclear forensics techniques.
Identify and interdict unlawful acquisition and movement of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear precursors and materials by leveraging investigative and enforcement assets towards domestic and international movement of these materials and by engaging in information sharing with all stakeholders to monitor and control this technology.
Detect, locate, and prevent the hostile use of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials and weapons by 1 combining authorities and assets with other departments and agencies; 2 building the U. To this last point, DHS will deploy technologies that enable early detection of biological agents prior to the onset of symptoms, pursue more rapid responder capabilities, and increase the capacity and effectiveness of local public health, medical, and emergency services.
Protect key leaders, facilities, and National Special Security Events by 1 working with partners across the homeland security enterprise to coordinate intelligence, information sharing, security, and response resources; 2 protecting the President, the Vice President, visiting heads of state, major Presidential candidates, and other designated protectees; 3 protecting federal facilities, employees, and visitors; and 4 assessing risk and coordinating support to partners during major special events across the Nation through the Special Events Assessment Rating.
FY Strengthen aviation security counterterrorism capabilities by using intelligence driven information and risk-based decisions. Strategic Goal: Mission 2: Secure and manage our borders. Statement: Secure and manage our borders. Goal 2. Air, Land, and Sea Borders and Approaches Description: Flows of people and goods around the world have expanded dramatically in recent years. We will pursue the following strategies to secure U.
Using a variety of intelligence, automated tools, and information collected in advance of arrival for passengers and cargo at air, land, and seaports, DHS screens, identifies, and intercepts threats at points of departure before they reach our borders.
In the approaches to the United States, DHS maintains domain awareness efforts to establish and maintain a common operating picture of people, vehicles, aircraft, and marine vessels approaching our borders, as well as interdiction capabilities to achieve a law enforcement resolution.
Using this information, law enforcement organizations such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement will investigate illegal exports and exit. Statement: Safeguard and Expedite Lawful Trade and Travel Description: The vast majority of people and goods entering and exiting the United States represent law-ful trade and travel. We will pursue the following strategies to safeguard and expedite lawful trade and travel: Safeguard key nodes, conveyances, and pathways by establishing and enforcing security standards and plans that maintain or restore infrastructure capabilities to be resilient from attacks and natural disasters; this includes facilities at ports of entry, modes of transportation, and pathways.
Manage the risk of people and goods in transit by employing a risk-segmentation approach that identifies low-risk and high-risk people and goods moving within legal channels as far from the homeland as possible, and then expediting low-risk, lawful movement to and through the United States.
Maximize compliance with U. Statement: Disrupt and Dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations and Other Illicit Actors Description: Transnational criminal organizations are increasing in strength and capability.
We will pursue the following strategies to disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal organizations and other illicit actors: Identify, investigate, disrupt, and dismantle TCOs by: 1 targeting illicit financing activities that transnational criminal organizations depend on, such as money laundering, and increasing outbound inspection to deter practices such as cash smuggling; and 2 creating a deterrent effect from injecting the greatest amount of uncertainty and concern into criminal decision making by swiftly shifting assets, presence, technology, and tools, further targeting and focusing interdiction activities, and emphasizing strategic communications that project the effectiveness of homeland security capabilities.
Disrupt illicit actors, activities, and pathways by using intelligence to target and interdict illicit people and goods through a rapid response workforce as well as surveillance and enforcement assets to detect, identify, monitor, track, and interdict targets of interest, and board vessels. Goal 3. Statement: Strengthen and Effectively Administer the Immigration System Description: At the center of any good immigration system must be a structure able to rapidly respond to regulatory changes and the flow of demand around the world while at the same time safeguarding security.
We will pursue the following strategies to strengthen and effectively administer the immigration system: Promote lawful immigration by uniting families, providing refuge, fostering economic opportunity, and promoting citizenship.
We will also work to better assist high-skilled immigrants, streamline the processing of immigrant visas to encourage businesses to grow in the United States, and develop innovative programs to enable immigrants to reach their potential in the United States.
Effectively administer the immigration services system by: 1 providing effective customer-oriented immigration benefit and information services at home and abroad; 2 making all information needed to make immigration decisions available to appropriate agencies electronically and in real-time, including active individual case files and biometric information; and 3 ensuring that only eligible applicants receive immigration benefits through expanded use of biometrics, a strengthening of screening processes, improvements to fraud detection, increases in legal staffing to ensure due process, and enhancements of interagency information sharing.
Promote the integration of lawful immigrants in American society by enhancing educational resources and promoting opportunities to increase understanding of U. Priority Goal: Enforce and administer our immigration laws through prioritized detention and removal of criminal aliens.
Statement: Prevent Unlawful Immigration Description: The increased movement of people and goods across our borders provides many opportunities but also provides more places for illegal goods, unauthorized migrants, and threats to hide. We will pursue the following strategies to prevent unlawful immigration: Prevent unlawful entry, strengthen enforcement, and reduce drivers of unlawful immigration by: 1 increasing situational awareness of our borders; 2 ensuring that only those abroad who are eligible receive travel documents to the United States; and 3 identifying and removing criminal aliens, individuals who pose a threat to public safety, health, or national security, repeat immigration law violators, and other individuals prioritized for removal.
Arrest, detain, and remove criminals, fugitives, and other dangerous foreign nationals by leveraging federal information sharing and state, local, and federal criminal justice systems to take enforcement action based on priorities with regard to criminal aliens, and working with the Department of Justice to ensure more timely hearing of immigration cases and appeals.
FY Enforce and administer our immigration laws through prioritized detention and removal of criminal aliens. Goal 5. Statement: Enhance National Preparedness Description: National preparedness underpins all efforts to safeguard and secure the Nation against those threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.
Build and sustain core capabilities nationally to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from all hazards by conducting such activities as: 1 fostering capability development by providing tools and technical assistance; 2 providing planning and reach-back expertise; 3 using grant programs such as the State Homeland Security Grant Program and the Urban Area Security Initiative which collectively provide funds to state, local, tribal, territorial, and regional government and port, transit, and nonprofit entities ; and 4 promoting the use of the National Planning Frameworks.
Assist federal entities in the establishment of effective continuity programs that are regularly updated, exercised, and improved by administering the National Exercise Program, the cornerstone of a collective effort to test, improve, and assess national preparedness. Priority Goal: Ensure resilience to disasters by strengthening disaster preparedness and response capabilities. Statement: Mitigate Hazards and Vulnerabilities Description: DHS is uniquely positioned not only to support communities during a disaster, but also to enable partners to take steps that will decrease risk and mitigate future hazards before a disaster strikes.
We will pursue the following strategies to mitigate hazards and vulnerabilities: Promote public and private sector awareness and understanding of community-specific risks by providing credible and actionable data and tools to support risk-informed decision making and incentivizing and facilitating investments to manage current and future risk. Reduce vulnerability through standards, regulation, resilient design, effective mitigation, and disaster risk reduction measures by encouraging appropriate land use and adoption of building codes, while also applying engineering and planning practices in conjunction with advanced technology tools.
Prevent maritime incidents by establishing, and ensuring compliance with standards and regulations by licensing U. We will pursue the following strategies to ensure effective emergency response: Provide timely and accurate information to individuals and communities to support public safety and inform appropriate actions by the public before, during, and after emergencies. Conduct effective, unified incident response operations by following the National Response Framework, Second Edition; maximizing interagency coordination, information sharing, and preparation; and implementing initiatives to ensure a stable, flexible, and fully qualified disaster workforce.
Provide timely and appropriate disaster assistance through "survivor-centric" programs that support, streamline, and simplify the delivery of services for individuals and communities. DHS will strengthen capabilities and operationalize resource-sharing opportunities to achieve the greatest potential to change outcomes on the ground in catastrophic disasters. Ensure effective emergency communications through the provision of technical communications capabilities enabling security, situational awareness, and operational decision making to manage emergencies under all circumstances.
Support and enable communities to rebuild stronger, smarter, and safer by following the National Disaster Recovery Framework and implementing programs that: 1 fund authorized federal disaster support activities; 2 support eligible reconstruction projects and disaster survivors; 3 provide subject matter experts to assist in planning and coordinating rebuilding efforts; and 4 focus on how best to restore, redevelop, and revitalize the health, social, economic, natural, and environmental fabric of the community and build a more resilient nation.
Statement: Safeguard and Secure Cyberspace. Goal 4. Statement: Strengthen the Security and Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Against Cyber Attacks and Other Hazards Description: The concept of critical infrastructure as discrete, physical assets has become outdated as everything becomes linked to cyberspace. We will pursue the following strategies to strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure against cyber attacks and other hazards: Enhance the exchange of information and intelligence on risks to critical infrastructure and develop real-time situational awareness capabilities that ensure machine and human interpretation and visualization by increasing the volume, timeliness and quality of cyber threat reporting shared with the private sector and state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, and enabling the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center to receive information at "machine speed" by enabling networks to be more self-healing, using mathematics and analytics to mimic restorative processes that occur biologically.
Partner with critical infrastructure owners and operators to ensure the delivery of essential services and functions by building effective partnerships to set a national focus and determine collective actions, providing assistance to local and regional partners, and leveraging incentives to advance security and resilience, as described in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering for Security and Resilience.
Identify and understand interdependencies and cascading impacts among critical systems by leveraging regional risk assessment programs, organization-specific assessment, asset and network-specific assessment, and cross-sector risk assessments.
Collaborate with agencies and the private sector to identify and develop effective cybersecurity policies and best practices through voluntary collaboration with private sector own-ers and operators including their partner associations, vendors, and others and govern-ment entity counterparts. Reduce vulnerabilities and promote resilient critical infrastructure design by identifying and promoting opportunities that build security and resilience into critical infrastructure as it is being developed and updated, rather than focusing solely on mitigating vulnerabilities present within existing critical infrastructure.
We will pursue the following strategies to secure the federal civilian government information technology enterprise: Coordinate government purchasing of cyber technology to enhance cost-effectiveness by using strategically sourced tools and services such as the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program.
Equip civilian government networks with innovative cybersecurity tools, information, and protections by supporting research and development and making the innovations from research and development available not only to the Federal Government but widely available across the public and private spheres. Ensure government-wide policy and standards are consistently and effectively implemented and measured by promoting the adoption of enterprise-wide policy and best practices and working with interagency partners to develop government-wide requirements that can bring the full strength of the market to bear on existing and emergent vulnerabilities.
We will pursue the following strategies to advance cyber law enforcement, incident response, and reporting capabilities: Respond to and assist in the recovery from cyber incidents by managing incident response activities through the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center and fostering enhanced collaboration between law enforcement and network security officials to pre-plan responses to cyber incidents. Statement: Strengthen the Cyber Ecosystem Description: Our entire society, from government and law enforcement to the private sector and members of the public, must work collaboratively to improve our network defense.
We will pursue the following strategies to strengthen the cyber ecosystem: Drive innovative and cost effective security products, services, and solutions throughout the cyber ecosystem by working with domestic and international partners across the public and private spheres, and across the science and policy communities to identify promising technology, policy and standards that enable robust, trust-based, automated sharing of cybersecurity information and collective action to limit the spread of incidents and minimize consequences.
Conduct and transition research and development, enabling trustworthy cyber infrastructure by supporting initiatives to develop promising new security technologies and techniques including: 1 security automation techniques to facilitate real-time incident response; 2 interoperability to support security cooperation across sectors; and 3 privacy enhancing authentication to enable better system protection.
Develop skilled cybersecurity professionals by promoting cybersecurity knowledge and innovation, developing Department-wide human capital strategies, policies, and programs intended to enhance the DHS cyber workforce, and working with public and private sector partners to increase the pipeline of highly qualified homeland security professionals through academic and federal training programs.
Enhance public awareness and promote cybersecurity best practices by promoting National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and the Stop. Advance international engagement to promote capacity building, international standards, and cooperation by working to establish and deepen relationships with foreign computer incident response teams both bilaterally and through participation in operationally-focused multilateral fora, such as the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams.
Statement: Mature and Strengthen Homeland Security. Statement: Integrate Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Operations Description: Rapidly evolving threats and hazards demand that DHS and our partners continually enhance situational awareness. We will pursue the following strategies to integrate intelligence, information sharing, and operations: Enhance unity of regional operations coordination and planning by partnering with and supporting the national network of fusion centers in the form of deployed personnel, training, technical assistance, exercise support, security clearances, connectivity to federal systems, technology, and grant funding.
DHS will also work to enhance intelligence enterprise support to Component and state, local, tribal, territorial and private sector home-land security missions by developing an integrated set of DHS intelligence enterprise priorities specific to collection and analysis and enhancing coordination among DHS headquarters, Component headquarters, and field elements.
Share homeland security information and analysis, threats, and risks by providing robust communications, coordination, information sharing, situational awareness capabilities, Department-level planning, and Department-level planning to homeland security partners. Integrate counterintelligence , consistent with component and Departmental authorities, into all aspects of Department operations by utilizing the counterintelligence program management, counterintelligence analysis, and counterintelligence support and inquiries functions to safeguard homeland security-related national security information and other sensitive information.
Note that only trusted and vetted international partners receive access to proper-ly screened sensitive information. Preserve civil rights, civil liberties, privacy, oversight, and transparency in the execution of homeland security activities by creating appropriate policy as needed, advising Department leadership and personnel, assuring that the use of technologies sustain, and do not erode, privacy protections relating to the use, collection, and disclosure of personal information, and investigating and resolving any privacy, civil rights, or civil liberties complaints.
Statement: Enhance Partnerships and Outreach Description: Homeland security is achieved through a shared effort among all partners, from corporations to nonprofits and American families. We will pursue the following strategies to enhance partnerships and outreach: Promote regional response capacity and civil support by coordinating and advancing federal interaction with state, local, tribal, and territorial governments and by pursuing the Whole Community approach to build and sustain national preparedness.
Strengthen the ability of federal agencies to support homeland security missions by working with federal partners to ensure that Departmental roles, responsibilities, and interests are integrated with and incorporated into interagency activities. Expand and extend governmental, nongovernmental, domestic, and international partnerships by building a Department-wide Community of Practice to synchronize the identification of potential partnership opportunities, develop a repository of partnerships and best practices, and serve as a consultative body to inform the exploration and formation of new public-private partnerships.
Further enhance the military-homeland security relationship by collaborating with the Department of Defense to pursue bilateral science and technology agreements; collaborate in information sharing and training; provide support for information systems Law Enforcement, and emergency and disaster response support; and develop international relationships.
Implementation plans will be developed to responsibly document how DHS Components will implement these strategic priorities in a unified manner. Agents are employed by the Department of Homeland Security and work in airports, along waterways, and at U. At each location, agents patrol designated areas to identify risks posed by individuals and suspicious materials.
The homeland security agent job description reads a lot like a suspense novel. Agents assess possible terror threats from individuals and groups, and they prevent people from smuggling illegal substances into the country.
They also investigate and help create security technologies that keep people safe during natural disasters and terrorist attacks. To perform their jobs effectively, most agents are trained to read and evaluate intelligence reports. Homeland security agents are stationed throughout the world, and their responsibilities and work environments vary greatly. Some of the agencies that depend on homeland security agents include:.
Many homeland security agents work in office settings where they track, assess, and follow terrorist risks. Others specialize in field operations and scout for illegal activity at U. Patrolling the perimeters of international airports, shipping terminals, and seaports is another common assignment for homeland security agents. Salaries for homeland security agents depend on experience, location, and the assignment specifics.
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