Federal Emergency Management Agency

2002, the United States Coast Guard was moved from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Homeland Security. This move was conducted without any significant changes to the federal laws governing the operations, establishment and deployment of the Coast Guard. Titles 14 and 10 still provide the federal codes for the Coast Guard’s operation and availability to the Department of the Navy. The Department of the Navy provides the funding for training, equipment and…

Department of Energy (DOE). A 1983 DOD-DOE Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed by the secretaries of defense and energy, reaffirmed “the obligation of the DOD and the DOE to protect public health and safety provides the basic premise for dual-agency judgment and responsibility for safety, security, and control of nuclear weapons.” (The Nuclear Matters Handbook 2013) The United States stopped producing nuclear weapons over 20 years ago. The nuclear weapons complex (NWC), administered…

climate, increasing system effectiveness, and building community capacity (Westbroook, L. & Schultz, R. 2000). The public health nurse has the opportunity to practice on several levels including local, regional, state and federal levels. In order to provide effective and…

Introduction The Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7(b)) restricts suppliers of goods or services secured by a government healthcare program ("Federal Healthcare Program") from intentionally and readily requesting or accepting or giving any compensation, directly or indirectly, in trade or in kind, to actuate either the referral of an individual, or outfitting or orchestrating a good or service for which imbursement may be made under a Federal Healthcare Program. The Federal…

Aircrafts for Hurricane Observation and Hurricane Hunters One significant advancement towards studying hurricanes was the use of aircrafts. Post World War I, the use of aircrafts boomed and meteorologists found a use for them- to study hurricanes. The first recorded intentional flight into the eye of a hurricane was completed by Colonel Joseph Duckworth on July 27, 1943. During that day, he made two flights from Galveston, Texas. From that day on, he began one of the US Air Force’s largest,…

caused the 9/11 attacks in New York. The wide spectrum of hazards for a terrorist event range from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), explosives, and a combination of hazards (WMD with an explosion of a factory or facility with harmful chemicals). Federal and State laws have ensured that hazardous chemicals and items that are transported or produced are properly labeled and transported so as not to affect the public. In addition to labeling these hazards it is key to have First Responders and…

2002 the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) replaced the Computer Security Act of 1987 which intended to enhance information security policies in federal offices. In the end, in 2013 President Barrack Obama signed Executive Order 13636 which led NIST publishing the Cybersecurity Framework version 1.0 which is applicable to the US critical infrastructure. Currently,…

border security to emergency response and from cyber security analyst to a chemical facility inspector. Along with this vital mission, the Department of Homeland Security has five homeland security missions. These five missions include “preventing terrorism and enhance security, securing and managing our borders, enforcing immigration laws, to safeguard and secure cyberspace, and ensure resilience to disasters” whether it is man-made or a natural…

many people expected. Siding came off houses, and wind scattered debris. Sheets of rain flooded the streets, Before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Governor Katrine Babineaux Blanco declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 26, 2005, and asked President Bush to do the same at the federal level the next day, a request with which he complied. This authorized FEMA to organize and mobilize resources as it saw fit to help the residents…

organizations, namely law enforcement agencies who share the same jurisdictional authority, when they are challenged to work together in groups to respond to critical incidents. Dealing With Conflict Management in Small Groups Conflict is defined as a strong disagreement between people, groups, etc., which results in often angry argument (Merriam-Webster 2014). In small groups,…