Fisher Homeland Security Assessment

4: Applicant successfully identifies a significant situation and provides a solution in a way that exhibits their skills and abilities.

Primary documents such as diaries and journals have a vast importance to historians. First-hand accounts are praised in the historian community due to the accuracy, inaccuracy, or even the hyperbole that are found in these wonderful documents. Lamentably some primary documents are factual and some are incorrect or different. For example, a report from a major general from the union may be different from a major general from the confederates. The challenge of trying to decide what actually happened over the course of a battle that took almost 10 days makes the task at hand more demanding. Conflicting reports during the battle of Wilmington between US General Alfred Howe Terry and Confederate Army General Braxton

7. a) How are the scores reported? b) What kind of scores does the instrument yield?

Student Assessment/Rubrics: Students will be assessed through observation during direct instruction and demonstration of knowledge on guided practice and individual practice. Students must score 80% out 100% on the individual assignment to demonstrate mastery.

By reviewing and analysing the chart we can as employees identify where our areas of self development are needed.

The Baldrige Criteria is used when conducting a Homeland Security Assessment for an organization. Within this particular assessment there are eight (8) steps listed that are suggested for a positive implementation of the assessment (Fisher, 2013). The Baldrige Criteria was developed as established guidelines and best practices that can be used by the organizations to appraise the homeland security efforts. By using the Baldrige Criteria it allows a comprehensive assessment based on criteria with a national standard of excellence. It should be noted, in preparing for the initial assessment of any organization, first is must be very important that senior management/command staff should be fully supportive of the initiative and have it’s full support for it to be successful (Fisher, 2013).

George Washington University is the number only University who offered a program that spoke to my interest. I am applying to the Master of Professional Studies in Security and Safety Leadership because I believe my analytical and critical thinking skills will be enhanced and the program expectations will be higher than in my to think effectively and efficiently. I believe that this program will provide me with the competencies to manage and succeed in the Homeland Security field. This program will provide me with the proper knowledge and skills I would need to excel in Criminal Justice.

The questions in this instrument are weighted a numerical value of zero to three, with three being the highest score on each question.

Step 1. Total the points in each area. Yes responses receive 10 points, sometimes responses receive 5 points, and not yet responses receive 0 points.

The National Response Framework is a guide designed to assist local, State, and Federal governments in developing functional capabilities and identifying resources based on hazard identification and risk assessment. It outlines the operating structure and identifies key roles and responsibilities. It established a framework to identify capabilities based on resources and the current situation no matter the size or scale. It integrates organizational structures and standardizes how the Nation at all levels plans to react to incidents. The suspected terrorist attack will have health, economic, social, environment and political long-term effects for my community. This is why it is essential that local government’s

According to Lepak & Gowan (2010), needs assessment identifies the gaps that exist between what employees should be doing and what they are actually doing, and it can narrow and fill these gaps based on supporting company’s strategic goals and adding values to the company. In Lepak & Gowan (2010), three analyses should be carried out step by step to locate the gaps among the company’s management structure from top to bottom: (1) organization analysis: determines a company’s progress toward achieving its goals and objectives; (2) task analysis: identifies

| Responses to the required number of the questions provided demonstrate a clear and specific understanding of the guiding principles of supervision and evaluation. (20-15 points)

The last subject I would like to mention is the interface between emergency management and homeland security. The interface between them is staying in their own lane especially when a disaster or crisis occurs. There are no grey areas when it comes to these two entities. According to David McIntyre, he considered the interface as a “sibling rivalry” because “one was older than the other” (Lucus-McEwen, 2012). Department of Homeland Security was created to focus on terrorism. While focusing on terrorism the emergency management piece was deprived resulting in emergency management taking a life on its own. No matter how you look these two entities they are family. But the funny thing is neither one can stand on its own without the help

and ensure resilience to disasters. In order to achieve these goals, intelligence is necessary. The Office of Intelligence and Analysis, a subsection to the DHS focuses on obtaining and analyzing intelligence and puts them into the Homeland Security Enterprise which primarily

The analysis is then given to consumers and policy makers, once it is checked by the analyst supervisor and peers. The analyst should also be ready to give a briefing on short notice. But both the analyst and the policy maker or consumer have to be aware of at all times, is that the intelligence field does not know everything. “On any given subject, the intelligence community faces what is in effect a field of rocks, and it lacks the resources to turn over every one to see what threats to national security may lurk underneath” (Pillar).