The Defense Security Service (DSS)

The National Defense Strategy (NDS): The NDS outlines how DOD will contribute to achieving National Security objectives.

It was the spring of 2011, and I was sitting behind my desk along with my colleagues in the Communications Security section of the 1st Information Operations Battalion’s Vulnerability Assessment Detachment. Our section NCOIC had just been relieved of duty for violating several Army regulations and security protocols while an individual augmentee deployed to Afghanistan, representing our organization within a special operations Task Force. While his conduct had nothing to do with the mission nor our section, his abject failure to display any integrity or adhere to the Army Values reflected very poorly on our unit and cast our office in a particularly unflattering light...not to mention the additional scrutiny from our chain of command.

Paper 1: What are the capabilities and limitations of intelligence in supporting homeland security efforts?

How can lawmakers maintain a balanced approach while collecting intelligence on United States persons in order to prevent a national security crime and provide full consideration to the rights of said persons? Does the current legislation permit U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agents to conduct investigations to the fullest extent or does it hamper their ability to properly investigate? Lawmakers have asked these questions since the inception of government executed counterintelligence operations in order to support our country’s leaders trying to strike the perfect balance of investigative freedom and citizen’s rights. When the Counterintelligence Corps was formed in 1961 there were few laws that governed intelligence collection.

A passion that I have recognised in myself lies in the industry of Public Administration and Safety. To be more specific the sector that I will be focusing on within this industry is The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). The organisation offers a development program pertaining to the Intelligence Officer field, which I will be aiming for once I have completed my degree. Individuals employed within this industry range from prison guards to environmental scientists. It is immensely broad but clear that within the subdivisions each and every workforce is collectively working towards protecting and advancing Australia. The Labour market information portal states “The Public Administration and Safety Industry employs 774,200

Thomas Jefferson said, “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” The National Security Agency (NSA), established by the National Security Act of 1947, exists to safeguard American citizens against terror threats and foreign intelligence.(National Archives) Since the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, the NSA, through the guise of the Patriot Act, has been investigating American citizens who are not suspect of law breaking. President George W. Bush enacted the Patriot Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 [Britannica]) in October 2001, but current President Barack Obama furthered its parameters via Executive Orders such as EO’s 13526 and 13549 (Federal Register). The Agency’s private investigations have caused public suspicion. This concern was validated by the revelation of the government’s collection of metadata (phone history), storage of text messages, possession of spy programs, and proof of the wire tapping of two-country related phone calls after Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, leaked private information to the public in May/June of 2013. (Britannica)

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the United States military is estimated to contain around 1.4 million active duty personnel. Even in times of peace, having a strong force ready to protect the U.S and its citizens makes living in the U.S better than it already is because we don’t have to worry about being bombed or invaded. But, when the United States takes on a larger operation, the military may need more help. Backup might be needed, so the military may need to call up more forces. In a major conflict, the United States may even set up the draft, requesting soldiers from the civilian population. The idea of the draft has been around since ancient times. The United States has enforced many different draft systems to fill its

The National security responsibilities fall across many agencies and bureaus in the federal government, the agency that has the most influence is the department of homeland security. Homeland security has the tremendous responsibility in the protection of the American people, safeguarding this homeland, and upholding the values that all Americans share (dhs.gov, 2016). The main values of homeland is integrity, vigilance, and respect in honoring our partners which lead into the foundation of DHS. These concepts include security, resilience, and customs with exchange. When it comes to protecting the American people, the first priority is preventing terrorist’s attacks. Along with protection, safeguarding borders from illegal activity involves

On Wednesday, a judicial ruling in Colorado has again declared that Robert Lewis Dear, 57, who was accused of killing three people in an abortion clinic in Colorado Springs, is mentally incompetent to appear in court. This ruling followed a report from Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo Museum (CMHIP) where Dear has been undergoing mental therapy since May.

The headquarters for the United States Department of Defense has twice the number of bathrooms needed for a building its size. Known more commonly as “the Pentagon” after its unique, five walled frame, the defense building was constructed during the early 1940’s in Virginia, where a code of regulations dubbed the “Jim Crow laws” required people of color to use separate facilities from white citizens. The Jim Crow laws segregated schools, transportation and public places. Although they claimed to make colored and Caucasian citizens “separate but equal” they typically left African Americans with inferior conditions and facilities; their libraries only carried secondhand books, their schools were overcrowded and underfunded, and they

Dams sector is a vital part of the nation’s infrastructure and offers a wide range of economic, environmental, and social benefits. The asset composed are hydropower generation facilities, navigation locks, levees, dikes, hurricane barriers, mine tailings, industrial waste impoundments, and other similar water retention and water control facilities. Defense industrial base sector, includes domestic and foreign entities, with production assets located in many countries. This sector is the worldwide industrial complex that makes possible research and development, as well as design, delivery, production, and maintenance of military weapons systems, subsystems, and components or parts, to meet U.S. military requirements. With more than 100,000 defense industrial companies and their subcontractors who carry out under contract to the department of defense, and government-owned/ contractor-operated and government owned/government-operated facilities. Critical manufacturing emergency service sector, as direct attack on or disruption of certain elements of the manufacturing industry could disrupt essential functions at the national level

With the ever-expanding enigma that is the internet and technology, there is the constant question of privacy; how does the US monitor its citizens or foreign nations? Edward Snowden, a man who risked himself to bring details about the United States National Security Agency to light; the National Security Agency (NSA) is the government agency responsible for surveillance on foreign countries as well as the US itself. How do these two tie together? Or how did the NSA let Snowden, or others before him, get into through their security and publicize classified information?

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Dot’s Special Security Consultant Services (DS3) specializes in providing Special Security Training, Special Security Surveys, and Insider Threat/Risk Mitigation Analysis Reports. Local market research conduct in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia reflect a lack of special security management services as it pertains to background investigation requirements, cyber security, personal identification information protection, insider threat, and risk mitigation assessments for religious organizations, outreach programs, and businesses. Hampton Roads area is comprised

The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) was established in November 1952 to provide a cryptologic organization for the civilian and military leaders of the United States and to provide them with timely information. The National Security Agency (NSA) coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to produce foreign intelligence information and protect United States information systems through two main missions, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA). The Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) mission uses cryptologic machines to break foreign codes to find out what they know and what they are doing. The biggest accomplishment publicly