Homeland Security in 2025
Last week, Brookings published an interesting paper "A Vision for Homeland Security in the Year 2025," by Darrell West. The paper is the result of a rather large session conducted at Brookings last November (in which I took part) and From the introduction:
Key themes that emerged from this dialogue included the following points: • Understand homeland security as a diverse array of organizations, functio
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Last week, Brookings published an interesting paper "A Vision for Homeland Security in the Year 2025," by Darrell West. The paper is the result of a rather large session conducted at Brookings last November (in which I took part) and From the introduction:
Key themes that emerged from this dialogue included the following points: • Understand homeland security as a diverse array of organizations, functions, capabilities, and priorities. • Raise awareness of a systems approach to homeland security. • Organize joint action across sectors and leverage private sector resources. • Develop real-time data analytics and decision-making tools. • Institutionalize future-thinking across the security agencies. • Educate senior officials and critical decision-making regarding state and local authority roles, processes, and procedures.I tend to think that predicting the future is hard work -- but these look like good building blocks for establishing the capacity to deal with whatever the future might bring.
Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company and a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University, a Senior Fellow in the Tech, Law & Security program at American University, and a Board Member of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.
