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Department of Homeland Security (DHS
www.dhs.gov
The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas
Secretary of Homeland Security
David Pekoske
Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Deputy Secretary
RDML Brendan C. McPherson, USCG
Military Advisor
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAS A VITAL MISSION
To secure the nation from the many threats we face. This requires the dedication of more than 240,000 employees in jobs that range from aviation and border security to emergency response, from cybersecurity analyst to chemical facility inspector. Our duties are wide-ranging, and our goal is clear—keeping America safe.
Hundreds of thousands of people from across the federal government, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, the private sector, and other nongovernmental organizations, play a role in executing our mission. These are the people who regularly interact with the public, who are responsible for public safety and security, who own and operate our nation’s critical infrastructures and services, who perform research and develop technology, and who keep watch, prepare for, and respond to emerging threats and disasters. These homeland security professionals must have a clear sense of what it takes to achieve the overarching vision articulated above.
There are six overarching homeland security missions: 1. Counter terrorism and homeland security threats 2. Secure US borders and approaches 3. Secure cyberspace and critical infrastructure 4. Preserve and uphold the Nation’s prosperity and economic security 5. Strengthen preparedness and resilience 6. Champion the DHS workforce and strengthen the Department
In achieving these goals, we are continually strengthening our partnerships with communities, first responders, law enforcement, and government agencies—at the state, local, tribal, federal, and international levels. We are accelerating the deployment of science, technology, and innovation in order to make America more secure. And we are becoming leaner, smarter, and more efficient, ensuring that every security resource is used as effectively as possible.
The primary responsibility of the Military Advisor is to provide counsel and support to the Secretary in affairs relating to the coordination and execution of policy and operations between DHS and DOD.
Operational and support components of DHS include the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP); Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA); Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Transportation Security Administration (TSA); US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); US Coast Guard (USCG); US Secret Service (USSS); Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office; Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC); Management Directorate; Office of Intelligence and Analysis; Office of Operations Coordination; Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans; and Science and Technology Directorate.
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (TSA)
David P. Pekoske
Administrator www.tsa.gov
MISSION
Protect the Nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.
VISION
An agile security agency, embodied by a professional workforce, that engages its partners and the American people to outmatch a dynamic threat.
CORE VALUES
Integrity. Respect. Commitment.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The attacks resulted in the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, designed to prevent similar attacks in the future. Driven by a desire to help our nation, tens of thousands of people joined TSA and committed themselves to strengthening our transportation systems while ensuring the freedom of movement for people and commerce.
The Aviation and Transportation Security Act, passed by the 107th Congress and signed on November 19, 2001, established the TSA.
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA)
Deanne Criswell
Administrator www.fema.gov
MISSION
Helping people before, during, and after disasters.
STRATEGIC PLAN
FEMA’s 2018-2022 Strategic Plan creates a shared vision for the field of emergency management and sets an ambitious, yet achievable, path forward to unify and further professionalize emergency management across the country. The Strategic Plan sets out three overarching Strategic Goals:
• Build a Culture of Preparedness – Every segment of our society, from individual to government, industry to philanthropy, must be encouraged and empowered with the information it needs to prepare for the inevitable impacts of future disasters. • Ready the Nation for Catastrophic Disasters – FEMA will work with its partners across all levels of government to strengthen partnerships and access new sources of scalable capabilities to quickly meet the needs of overwhelming incidents. • Reduce the Complexity of FEMA –
FEMA must continue to be responsible stewards of the resources we are entrusted to administer. We must also do everything that we can to leverage data to drive decision-making, and reduce the administrative and bureaucratic burdens that impede impacted individuals and communities from quickly receiving the assistance they need.
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (USCG)
ADM Karl L. Schultz, USCG
Commandant of the USCG www.uscg.mil
The US Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States and the only military organization within the Department of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard protects the maritime economy and the environment, defends our maritime borders, and saves those in peril. The Coast Guard provides unique benefits to the nation because of its distinctive blend of military, humanitarian, and civilian law enforcement capabilities. By law, the Coast Guard has 11 missions: Ports, waterways, and coastal security, drug interdiction, aids to navigation, search and rescue, living marine resources, marine safety, Defense readiness, migrant interdiction, marine environmental protection, ice operations, and other law enforcement.
USCG ENGINEERING AND LOGISTICS
RDML Nathan Moore, USCG
The Engineering and Logistics Directorate (CG-4) develops, deploys and maintains the resources necessary to sustain the capabilities to meet operational requirements that support the Coast Guard’s five fundamental roles: Maritime Safety, Maritime Security, Maritime Mobility, National Defense, and Protection of Natural Resources. To do this, our professionals are responsible for engineering and logistics throughout the Coast Guard. The Engineering and Logistics Directorate provides technical, logistics, and engineering support for all Coast Guard operating programs (i.e., Search and Rescue, environmental, etc.). This includes performing or assisting in planning, design, construction, acquisition, renovation, maintenance, outfitting and alteration of cutters, boats, aircraft, motor vehicles, aids to navigation and shore facilities. Engineering, logistics, and maintenance responsibilities also include complete life-cycle support; installation, operations, maintenance and ultimately replacement.
The Engineering and Logistics Directorate is composed of 2,898 people; 133 located in Coast Guard Headquarters and 2,765 located at three Headquarters Units: Aviation Logistics Center, Surfaces Forces Logistics Center (which includes the Coast Guard Yard), and the Shore Infrastructure Logistics Center. The Directorate is responsible for managing an annual budget of one billion dollars.
CG-4 is a diverse organization consisting of military and civilian members from many different backgrounds and disciplines. The Engineering and Logistics Directorate has managers, engineers, environmental specialists, scientist, logistician, technicians and Information Technology specialists . . . all vital to the ability to do the Directorate’s job. From the Assistant Commandant for Engineering and Logistics, to the field technician repairing a piece of mission critical equipment, the Engineering and Logistics organization performs as a vital asset that enables the Coast Guard to attain its strategic and performance goals.
The men and women of CG-4 ensure the Coast Guard’s complex infrastructure is “always ready” to provide the necessary capability to the operational community to meet the Coast Guard’s missions.
