1. Describe the key roles and responsibilities of the federal government, the state and local governments and private industry.
The overall responsibilities of our national and homeland security has always been a tight collaboration of local, state and federal governments. I believe it is the federal government’s job to establish the overall guidelines and for the local and states governments to place their input in where it is deemed needed. The federal government does a decent job of setting forth the missions and goals. It takes the cooperation and work of everyone to accomplish those goals.
When talking about the federal level, there are multiple areas of responsibility. One, provide the overall framework for the mission at hand. Everyone else feeds off of the directives and points that they establish. The QHSR and National Strategy plans do a good job of this. People, in general, have confidence that the personnel working at that level are competent and professionally sound enough to develop adequate protocols. These personnel are also responsible for the “specialized” programs or groups …show more content…
They also feed all the local agencies. However this works in reverse as well. The state agencies also pull data and Intel and send it to the federal agencies to be processed and analyzed further. Same for the local agencies. All information concerning national security should get pushed up until it is at the federal level. The federal agencies then analyzed it and create plans and programs to deal with the threat or situation. All three of these levels are vital to the flow of information and creation of plans and missions of homeland security.
2. Describe the roles and interactions that you interpret as being necessary to address the inherent conflict of having free and open trade while maintaining an acceptable level of
The overall responsibilities of our national and homeland security has always been a tight collaboration of local, state and federal governments. I believe it is the federal government’s job to establish the overall guidelines and for the local and states governments to place their input in where it is deemed needed. The federal government does a decent job of setting forth the missions and goals. It takes the cooperation and work of everyone to accomplish those goals.
When talking about the federal level, there are multiple areas of responsibility. One, provide the overall framework for the mission at hand. Everyone else feeds off of the directives and points that they establish. The QHSR and National Strategy plans do a good job of this. People, in general, have confidence that the personnel working at that level are competent and professionally sound enough to develop adequate protocols. These personnel are also responsible for the “specialized” programs or groups …show more content…
They also feed all the local agencies. However this works in reverse as well. The state agencies also pull data and Intel and send it to the federal agencies to be processed and analyzed further. Same for the local agencies. All information concerning national security should get pushed up until it is at the federal level. The federal agencies then analyzed it and create plans and programs to deal with the threat or situation. All three of these levels are vital to the flow of information and creation of plans and missions of homeland security.
2. Describe the roles and interactions that you interpret as being necessary to address the inherent conflict of having free and open trade while maintaining an acceptable level of