Tuesday, December 30, 2008

DHS Accomplishments – 2008

Department of Homeland Security. Fact Sheet: DHS End-of-Year Accomplishments. Washington, DC: DHS, Dec 18, 2008. At: http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1229609413187.shtm

DHS ANNOUNCES REVISED NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Release Date: December 18, 2008 Release Number: HQ-08-259

"WASHINGTON--The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today released a revised National Incident Management System (NIMS)—the national standard for incident management. NIMS establishes standardized incident management processes, protocols, and procedures that all federal, state, tribal and local responders will use to coordinate and conduct response actions.

NIMS expands on the original version released in March 2004 by clarifying existing NIMS concepts, better incorporating preparedness and planning and improving the overall readability of the document. The revised document also differentiates between the purposes of NIMS and the National Response Framework (NRF) by identifying how NIMS provides the action template for the management of incidents, while the NRF provides the policy structure and mechanisms for national-level policy for incident management."

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Small Boat Attacks & the DHS

Click on the title above for a great article on how the DHS has thought about small boat attacks in the past as part of proactive planning. They do not need to take the skeptics comments to seriously. Isn't is interesting how in this business you just can't (and will not) satisfy everyone.