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In response to the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) to coordinate "homeland security" efforts. The office was headed by former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, who assumed the title of Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. The official announcement ...
The Office of the Secretary (OS) oversees the execution of the duties of the Department of Homeland Security. [14] Certain elements also aid the Secretary of Homeland Security and senior officials of the Department of Homeland Security, as well as private sector and government partners in their duties.
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) is the civilian national intelligence component of the United States Department of Homeland Security and one of two statutory members of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) within DHS, the other being Coast Guard Intelligence.
June 18, 2003 (Alabama Homeland Security Act of 2003) Alaska: Alaska Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management: Early 2004: Arizona: Arizona Department of Homeland Security: February 14, 1912: 6,595,778.00: Arkansas: Arkansas Department of Emergency Management: June 15, 1836: 2,889,450.00: California: California Governor's Office of ...
HSARPA manages a broad portfolio of solicitations and proposals for the development of homeland security technology. HSARPA performs this function in part by awarding procurement contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions for research or prototypes to public or private entities, businesses, federally funded research and ...
Since the passage of the Homeland Security Act in 2002, the United States Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics has been responsible for carrying out two statutory requirements: 1) To collect and disseminate to Congress and the public any data or information useful in evaluating the social, economic, environmental ...
Originally a part of the U.S. Customs Service's Office of Investigations, the Office of Air and Marine (then called the Air and Marine Interdiction Division) was transferred to ICE in 2003 during the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, becoming the Office of Air and Marine Operations. Due in part to a 500 million dollar budgetary ...
The Homeland Security Advisory System scale. The new department assumed a large number of services, offices and other organizations previously conducted in other departments, such as the Customs Service, Coast Guard, and U.S. Secret Service. It superseded, but did not replace, the Office of Homeland Security, which