A Plan for the Restructuring of the Department of Homeland Security

A Plan for the Restructuring of the Department of Homeland Security: The Need to Improve DHS’s Effectiveness

Your final Assignment in this course is an 18–20 page term paper addressing the restructuring of the Department of Homeland Security.

If you were advising the President of the United States (POTUS), what recommendations would you make to POTUS in order to better integrate the different intelligence and homeland security agencies with the goal of creating more useful “actionable” information? Use the following critical functional areas as a basis to start your recommendations:

Fusion of actionable intelligence information (connecting the dots)
Prevention and deterrence of attacks
Protection and hardening of targets
Response and recovery attacks/disasters
Improved cost efficiencies within DHS

Be sure to show how you would apply those recommendations and support that application with an analysis and critical evaluation of both the current and future versions of the DHS. Provide examples when applicable.

This 18–20 page paper (the page count does not include citations and exhibits), should be written using APA format and include at least 20 sources beyond the textbook. You should try to incorporate major portions of the “mile-stone” Assignments that you drafted in earlier units.

Key sections of your Term Paper should be:

Abstract
Introduction and historical overview of the creation of DHS
A literature review of critical organizational structure issues of DHS
Your proposals
Conclusion

Please underline your thesis statement. Your thesis statement should be one, and only one, sentence that is embedded within your abstract section.

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Restructuring of the Department of Homeland Security

Abstract

The Department of Homeland Security is a combination of twenty two different departments, making one department that is more efficient. It was created after the September 11^th terrorism attacks with the main aim of preventing any future attacks and protecting the United States homeland. It does this through different ways and with the help of other intelligent agencies and law enforcement.

This paper looks at the plan for restricting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by looking at specific issues like connecting the dots throu….

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