EFFECTIVENESS OF ORGANIZATION

The effectiveness of organizational actions, structures, and multiagency involvement (local, state, and federal level) in response to homeland security

The effectiveness of organizational actions, structures, and multiagency involvement (local, state, and federal level) in response to homeland security

Introduction

One of the immediate responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by U.S. President George W Bush was to create the Office of Homeland Security (OHS), on a temporary basis. As the government worked to organize and coordinate U.S. security, and as prominent members of Congress increasingly demanded OHS be made a cabinet-level department of the federal government (with its own budget, accountability, and jurisdiction), Bush agreed to elevate the office. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created on January 23, 2003, when Bush signed an executive order as a concerted response to the global terrorist threats to the United States. Its legal basis was the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296) and the National Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) and the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Citizen Preparedness in the War on Terrorism Report of November 2001.

Problem Statement

There was no committee report suggested that additional fire apparatus in New York City, Pennsylvania, or Washington would have swayed the outcome of the 9/11 attacks or mitigated the loss of life. It can be state that that event had created the need for home land security and yet little federal funding went to intelligence operations immediately following the 2001 attacks; instead, fire departments across the United States reaped the monetary benefits of a nation mourning the loss of 341 firefighters in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Therefore, in the years following 9/11, the United States was better prepared to react to a cataclysmic attack but was no ...