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State Trends and Issues Update: Homeland Security and Public Safety. ITAA Event: Beyond the Beltway 2008 State & Local Government IT Market Watch March 31, 2008 C. Stewart Verdery, Jr. Partner and Founder, Monument Policy Group, LLC. Homeland Security – 5 Years After Creation of DHS.
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State Trends and Issues Update: Homeland Security and Public Safety ITAA Event: Beyond the Beltway 2008 State & Local Government IT Market Watch March 31, 2008 C. Stewart Verdery, Jr. Partner and Founder, Monument Policy Group, LLC
Homeland Security – 5 Years After Creation of DHS • Healthy Budgets but Tension between Federal Spending and Grants to State and Local Governments • Grants to State Governments a Poltical Football – “Pork” spending or building baseline capabilities? • Democrats in Congress > More $ • Will Democrat in White House Open Floodgates?
State Capabilities ReceivingMajor Funding • Strengthen Information Sharing and Collaboration Capabilities - $277M • Strengthen Interoperable Communications Capabilities - $323M • Strengthen CBRNE Detection, Response and Decontamination Capabilities - $357M • Expanded Regional Collaboration - $222M • Implementing the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Plan (NRP)
Where Does the $ Go? • State Homeland Security Program - $424M • Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program - $316M • Citizen Corps Program - $11M • Urban Areas Security Initiative - $492M • Emergency Management Performance Grants - $198M (including supplemental) • Metropolitan Medical Response System - $15M • Buffer Zone Protection Program - $8M
State & Local Capabilities List Common • Planning • Communications • Community Preparedness and Participation • Risk Management Prevention Mission Area • Information Gathering and Recognition of Indicators and Warnings • Intelligence Analysis and Production • Intelligence/Information Sharing and Dissemination • Law Enforcement Investigations and Operations • CBRNE Detection Protection Mission Area • Critical Infrastructure Protection • Food and Agriculture Safety and Defense • Public Health Laboratory Testing • Epidemiological Surveillance and Investigation Recovery Mission Area • Structural Damage Assessment and Mitigation • Restoration of Lifelines • Economic and Community Recovery
State & Local Capabilities List Response Mission Area • On-Site Incident Management • Emergency Operations Center Management • Critical Resource Logistics and Distribution • Volunteer Management and Donations • Responder Health and Safety • Public Safety and Security Response • Animal Health Emergency Support • Environmental Health • Explosive Device Response Operations • Firefighting Operations/Support • WMD/Hazardous Materials Response and Decontamination • Citizen Protection: Evacuation and/or In-Place Protection • Isolation and Quarantine • Urban Search and Rescue • Emergency Public Information and Warning • Triage and Pre-Hospital Treatment • Medical Surge • Medical Supplies Management and Distribution • Mass Prophylaxis • Mass Care • Fatality Management
Marketing to the StatesKey Local Agencies • Fire Departments • Preparedness or Emergency Operations Bureaus • Police Departments • Counter-terrorism or emergency preparedness bureaus • Sheriffs Departments • Counter-terrorism or emergency preparedness bureaus • Emergency Management Agencies • Preparedness divisions • Public Health Departments • Preparedness divisions
State and Local Influencers • National Emergency Management Association • International Association of Chiefs of Police • International Association of Emergency Managers • National Sheriffs’ Association • International Association of Fire Chiefs • Major Cities Police Chiefs • National Governors’ Association • Major County Sheriffs • U.S. Conference of Mayors • International City/County Management Association • National League of Cities • National Association of Counties • County Executives of America • Association of State & Territorial Health Officials
REAL ID • 2004 Law Requiring States to Meet Federal Standards for Driver’s Licenses • Final Regulations Issued in 2008 • Compliance Deadlines in Four Phases through 2017 • May 11, 2008 Deadline to Seek Extension – All but SC and ME Have Received • FY09 Funding Fight – NGA Asking for $1B, Budget Includes around $150M
Election Impacts • Democratic Congress • Major Push in FY08 for Continued High Levels of State Grant Funds • Bitterness on FY08 Appropriations Fight, FY09 Looks like a Sequel • Presidential Election • McCain Fiscal Hawk versus Democrat Using Homeland Funding as an issue
Questions? C. Stewart Verdery, Jr. Partner and Founder Monument Policy Group, LLC 202-719-9999 stewart@monumentpolicy.com