http://www.hlswatch.com/2007/10/09/white-house-formally-issues-new-strategy/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:26:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.hlswatch.com/2007/10/09/white-house-formally-issues-new-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-80379 William R. Cumming Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:17:56 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2007/10/09/white-house-formally-issues-new-strategy/#comment-80379 Six (6) years have passed since 9/11. This document reflects the inadequate progress made towards protecting the nation. Why? (1) No specific differentiation has been made in governmental roles and specific assignments made; (2) the deterioration in the budget picture of the civil agencies has grown particularly under the current CR; (3) all the MOU's and MOA's (difference being unfunded in advance and unfunded in advance) have not been published for public notice and comment, nor has this strategy; (4) still a top-down command driven approach instead of building assets from the bottom up; (5) no real advance coordination between levels of government since most joint exercises are played with inadequate scenarios and never reach decontamination, re-entry levels or discuss need for permanent relocation; (5) no resolution of civil/military relationships; (6) no resolution of relationship between law enforcement and other elements of response. E.G. DOJ and its assets still not equipped or trained to deal with a contaminated environment (SCBA-Self-contained Breating Apparatus) e.g. (7) the contractor supported special teams are neither properly trained, funded, or supervised, and in some cases are in someone's dreams only (e.g. NEST teams and infighting between DOE and DNDO of DHS); (8) no inventory of skills and equipment that could be marshalled for large-scale events; (9) no fix to chain of command issues between white house, DHS, DOD, DOJ, and Governors; (10) No publically available discussion of new 10 USC 331-334 language available to response community. Just a partial list which could include many others for example the new stovepipes created between the medical/HHS world and other responders since passage of the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Protection Act in May 2002. Most civil response orgs, including NGO's don't have a clue as to how the HHS/CDC public health system will respond. Few meeings and trainging sessions and most private medical personnel and facilities don't care, or don't want to know, or can't find out. Still the revised strategy reflects the fact that at least the Homeland Security Council can get out a document after coordination (or was it coordinated and between whom?) Six (6) years have passed since 9/11. This document reflects the inadequate progress made towards protecting the nation. Why? (1) No specific differentiation has been made in governmental roles and specific assignments made; (2) the deterioration in the budget picture of the civil agencies has grown particularly under the current CR; (3) all the MOU’s and MOA’s (difference being unfunded in advance and unfunded in advance) have not been published for public notice and comment, nor has this strategy; (4) still a top-down command driven approach instead of building assets from the bottom up; (5) no real advance coordination between levels of government since most joint exercises are played with inadequate scenarios and never reach decontamination, re-entry levels or discuss need for permanent relocation; (5) no resolution of civil/military relationships; (6) no resolution of relationship between law enforcement and other elements of response. E.G. DOJ and its assets still not equipped or trained to deal with a contaminated environment (SCBA-Self-contained Breating Apparatus) e.g. (7) the contractor supported special teams are neither properly trained, funded, or supervised, and in some cases are in someone’s dreams only (e.g. NEST teams and infighting between DOE and DNDO of DHS); (8) no inventory of skills and equipment that could be marshalled for large-scale events; (9) no fix to chain of command issues between white house, DHS, DOD, DOJ, and Governors; (10) No publically available discussion of new 10 USC 331-334 language available to response community. Just a partial list which could include many others for example the new stovepipes created between the medical/HHS world and other responders since passage of the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Protection Act in May 2002. Most civil response orgs, including NGO’s don’t have a clue as to how the HHS/CDC public health system will respond. Few meeings and trainging sessions and most private medical personnel and facilities don’t care, or don’t want to know, or can’t find out.
Still the revised strategy reflects the fact that at least the Homeland Security Council can get out a document after coordination (or was it coordinated and between whom?)

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