Reimagining Homeland Security

Booz Allen is HELPING to ESTABLISH A FRAMEWORK TO DRIVE AMERICA’S HOMELAND SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INTO THE FUTURE

The nation’s continued safety and security is dependent upon the continued maturation and institutionalization of a homeland security enterprise comprised of partners at all levels of government and the private sector. It is by strengthening this homeland security enterprise and adopting a whole community approach that we can, as a nation, prevent, prepare, respond to and recover more quickly from large-scale disasters.

Booz Allen is leading the way in shaping this next phase of homeland security. Through our new vision for homeland security and law enforcement, we’re bringing stakeholders together to build the kind of leadership, vision, and knowledge needed to make a strong, resilient homeland a reality.

THE CHALLENGE

As the nation reflects on the 10^th anniversary of the September 11^th terrorist attacks, we face a continued challenge in keeping the homeland safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) along with law enforcement agencies across the Federal Government struggle to clearly link the mission needs with capabilities, demonstrate measurable outcomes, maximize resources, and eliminate redundancies. The mission of protecting the homeland only increases in scale and intensity as the threat to the homeland continues to evolve, trade flowing across our borders continues to increase, cybersecurity threats continue to grow, and natural disasters continue to impact us.

Given the on-going challenges, the Federal Government must refresh and refine its approach to homeland security and law enforcement. Specifically, Booz Allen has identified five key challenge areas that the Federal Government will face in the next ten years:

• Resiliency: Strengthen the nation’s ability to respond to and develop from incidents by developing a scalable model across the federal, state, local, private sector, and international communities that serves as a holistic approach to understanding and rewarding resiliency (e.g., resiliency index)
• Enterprise Insight: Address the challenges of the Department’s vast information holdings by leveraging enterprise data to enhance mission operations and business support functions through the establishment of a Chief Data Officer
• Borders: Move beyond the ability to manage a physical border in order to establish and enhance capabilities that support the development of a “functional border” across multiple domains (e.g., air, land, maritime and cyber)
• Counterterrorism: Address the evolving homeland security threat by enabling agile adaptation across the law enforcement and counterterrorism communities through collaborative networks and analytical tools for identifying, tracking, and dismantling of people, money, and travel
• Cybersecurity: Key tipping points and new technologies will define the future of the Internet and cybersecurity. These changes will require a functional definition of cybersecurity focused on protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data from both a logical and physical perspective

THE APPROACH

A New Vision for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement
In the next 10 years, we as a nation must adopt a strong, future-facing strategy to transform an aggregated homeland security and law enforcement enterprise and drive the focus toward achieving national resiliency, establishing a networked approach to countering terrorism , defending our cyberspace through collaboration, and managing a functional border in the global commons.

Our Viewpoints

 

Reimagining the Next Generation of Homeland Security

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Reimagining the Border: Functional Border Management

Reimagining the Border as a Balanced Suite of Interrelated Mission Functions. Modern border management requires a vision that transcends physical locations and often stove-piped authorities to achieve a broader, more integrated approach to managing trade and travel. By viewing the border through the lens of the key functions of border management, we can make better use of advanced analytics to improve border management and strengthen the individual missions of each component authority, as well as the overall security of the nation.…Read More

 

 

Marshaling Data for Enterprise Insights

Marshaling Enterprise-wide Data for Mission Insights. Department of Homeland Security agencies can leverage cloud analytics to generate a more comprehensive picture of all kinds of data—such as cell-phone chatter, video, satellite images, biometric data, and a wide variety incoming field reports—to gain superior intelligence and predictive insight into terrorist threats. Taking full advantage of advanced data analytics will require DHS entities to think of themselves as collective sources of information rather than separate parts of a larger bureaucracy.…Read More

 

 

The Path Toward Resiliency

Booz Allen Hamilton can help reinforce “whole community” and “resilience” concepts by promoting mutually agreed upon definitions and developing mechanisms to measure progress toward helping the nation achieve greater resiliency.…Read More

 

 

Reimagining the Border

Reimagining the Border as a Suite of Interrelated Mission Functions. Modern border management requires a vision that transcends physical locations and often stove-piped authorities to achieve a broader, more integrated approach to managing trade and travel. By viewing the border through the lens of the key functions of border management, we can make better use of advanced analytics to improve border management and strengthen the individual missions of each component authority, as well as the overall security of the nation. …Read More

 

 

Enabling Agility in Law Enforcement

Creating a Robust Law Enforcement Network. To defeat today’s highly networked, transnational criminals and terrorists, US law enforcement agencies must become a tightly knit, collaborative network that leverages their collective intelligence, analytic, and operational capabilities. By strengthening their collaborative networks—with each other and with other national and international partners—law enforcement agencies can become more agile, swift, and strong in protecting our nation. …Read More

 

 

Achieving "Unity of Effort" in Cybersecurity

Building Effective Government-Industry Cybersecurity Collaboration. There is no higher priority than protecting the networks and systems that are critical to our government and the private sector that requires a greater understanding of the respective roles each should play—and the benefits that will result—in establishing responsible collaboration.…Read More

 

 

Reimagining Homeland Security

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