Deliberative Risk Ranking to Inform Homeland Security Strategic Planning

Homeland Security

Homeland Security Capabilities-Based Planning: Lessons from the Defense Community

Beginning in 2004, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began to define and implement a national domestic all-hazards preparedness goal, intended to improve the nation’s preparedness for national catastrophes, including terrorist attacks. DHS’s approach was capabilities-based planning (CBP), adopted from the Department of Defense (DoD). This article illustrates several components important...

Department of Homeland Security.

This is one of a series of audit, inspection, and special reports prepared as part of our oversight responsibilities to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness within the department. This report addresses FEMA's preparedness for the next catastrophic disaster. It is based on interviews with employees and officials of relevant agencies and institutions, direct observations, and a review o...

Strategic Planning for the Computer Science Security

The necessity of the companies and organizations to adapt the technological changes of the computer science takes to formulated key questions: How to measure the security of my organization?, What type of Computer Science Security needs my company, financial organization, or government? Did my financial organization counts with aspects of computer science security in the correct areas? What new...

Risk Adjusted Budget Allocation Models with Application in Homeland Security∗

This paper presents and studies models for multi-criterion budget allocation problems under uncertainty. The proposed models incorporate uncertainties in decision maker’s weights using a robust weighted sum approach. The risk averseness of the decision maker in satisfying random risk related constraints is ensured by using stochastic dominance. A sample average approximation approach together w...