Category: Law : Homeland Security

Decision Making and Risk
Understanding risk is important in logistics management. If taken into account, risk can be mitigated therefore leading to improved success in each of the phases (preparedness, response, and recovery). Risk can be assessed at in many different ways depending on the application. For example, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would apply risk assessment in a different way than an insurance company.
Understanding the terminology surrounding risk is important to understand such as the differences and similarities of risk, uncertainty, and threats. FEMA provides guidance in how to approach a risk assessment. The FEMA approach looks first at identifying potential hazards and analyze what could happen that would result in an impact analysis. Once impacts are identified, then strategies can be developed to mitigate the impacts.
An example of a risk management process diagram includes consideration of hazards, assets at risk and impacts.
In the case provided, read Keeley, J. E., Safford, H., Fotheringham, C. J., Franklin, J., & Moritz, M. (2009). The 2007 Southern California wildfires: Lessons in complexity. Journal of Forestry, 107(6), 287-296. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/jof/article/107/6/287/4598876
Case Assignment
Generally discuss the difference between uncertainty and risk.
List and explain in order of importance 10 threats or hazards to disaster logistics management.
Develop or discuss a risk assessment process diagram similar to above for logistics that adds to the threats the assets at risk and the different types of impacts. Explain your reasoning.
Properly cite your quotations that you use to support your statements. Use in-text references as needed to support your points.
Assignment Expectations
Length: This Case Assignment should be 3-5 pages, not counting the title page and references.
References: At least two references should be included from academic sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles). Required readings are included. Quoted material should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. When material is copied verbatim from external sources, it MUST be enclosed in quotes. The references should be cited within the text and listed at the end of the assignment in the References section (preferably in APA format).
Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to question.

Develop an essay that fully responds to the following prompt: Prompt: To adequately achieve the National Preparedness Goal, the capabilities required across the whole community are needed in order “to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk” (DHS, 2015).
Clearly convey how members of the whole community will carry out efforts in each of this Goal’s mission areas (prevention, protection, mitigation, response & recovery) in order to achieve heightened levels of preparedness and resilience. This will provide the opportunity to address and incorporate all primary issues addressed in this study.
Please use the attached template to aid in developing a proper APA formatted paper.

Complete a briefing paper on the following: 
Should the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recommend to the President and Congress to remove the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from the DHS structure and make it an independent agency of the US Executive Branch? Discuss challenges facing FEMA responding to disasters. What strategies should be taken to lessen these challenges? 
Provide a short legal brief you might submit to your superiors. The writing assignment should provide a balanced analysis of the issue assigned based on pertinent legal and other materials. The material for each assignment will come both from the required readings and outside research in order to fully assess the issues. 
Technical Requirements
Your paper must be at a minimum of 3-5 pages (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit).
Scholarly references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content.
Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
Students will follow the current APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework. 
Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources. It is highly advised to utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc.
All submissions will be graded using the assignment rubric.

From the NIPP of 2013, what is meant by “Partnership Structure?” Give an example.
Choose one of the 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors and comment on its Sector Specific Plan. What other sectors is it closely linked to? Why? How?
Explain SCADA. Why is SCADA a popular target for terrorists? Explain and use quotations to support your statements.
Assignment Expectations
Length: This Case Assignment should be at least 3 pages, not counting the title page and references.
References: At least two references should be included from academic sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles). Required readings are included. Quoted material should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. When material is copied verbatim from external sources, it MUST be enclosed in quotes. The references should be cited within the text and listed at the end of the assignment in the References section (preferably in APA format).
Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to question.
Grammar and Spelling: While no points are deducted for minor errors, assignments are expected to adhere to standards guidelines of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence syntax. Points may be deducted if grammar and spelling impact clarity.