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MAY 2003 / VOLUME 1, NUMBER 11 THE CIPREPORT HOMELAND SECURITY ISSUE Focus on the Department of Homeland Security On January 24, 2003, the mation program designed to build a DHS Organization Chart . .2 Department of Homeland Security citizen preparedness movement by DHS Leadership . .3 became the 15th executive depart- giving Americans the basic tools Select Committee on HS . .7 ment of the President's Cabinet. In they need to better prepare them- Legal Insights Column . .8 the biggest reorganization of the selves and their families and Grants for HS Volunteers . .9 Federal government since World encouraging them to "Be Ready;" Homeland Security Act . .10 War II, Secretary of Homeland and since its launch, Ready.gov has The IS Work Force, Part 3 . .12 Security Tom Ridge took over the become one of the most visited Funding for States & Cities .15 leadership of 22 previously dis- sites in America; State HS Contacts . .16 parate agencies, bring- Expedited distri- ing over 170,000 pro- bution of millions of fessionals into the dollars in grant umbrella of homeland monies to states CIP PROJECT STAFF security. The and cities with more Department's first pri- to come; ority is to protect the Initiated a com- John McCarthy, Executive nation against further prehensive reorga- Director terrorist attacks-a mis- nization of the bor- Emily Frye, Associate Director, sion it will undertake der agencies as well Law and Economics Programs by analyzing threats, as other administra- Kevin “Kip” Thomas, Associate guarding borders and tive measures to Director, Research Programs / airports, safeguarding critical infra- increase departmental services Research Associate Professor structure, and coordinating our and capabilities; national response to future emer- Completed transition of majority Rebecca Luria, CIP Project Administrator / Executive gencies. of component agencies into the Assistant Department in the largest federal In its first 100 days, the reorganization since World War II Dr. John Noftsinger, Executive Department has already made sig- and; Director, JMU Institute for nificant progress in a number of Conducted a series of listening Infrastructure and Information Assurance areas, including: sessions at strategic ports through- Orchestrated and launched out the U.S. and began develop- George Baker, Associate Operation Liberty Shield, the first ment of the vessel, facility and port Director, JMU Institute for comprehensive, national plan to security plans required by the Infrastructure and Information increase protections of America's Maritime Security Act of 2002. Assurance citizens and infrastructure; Ken Newbold, JMU Outreach Deployed new technologies and The purpose of this issue of The Coordinator / JMU CIP Project tools at land, air and sea borders; CIP Report is to introduce you to Liaison Stood up the Homeland Security some of the Homeland Security Contact: [email protected] Command Center, a national 24-7 leaders at the Department, the 703.993.4840 watch operation; White House, and Congress, and Launched the Ready campaign, to some of the initiatives underway a national multimedia public infor- in this field of securing our nation. THECIPREPORT MAY 2003 / VOLUME 1, NUMBER 11 Organization and Leadership of the Department of Homeland Security Executive Secretary Citizenship & Immigration Commandant of Coast Service Ombudsman Guard- Thomas Collins Legislative Affairs Director, Bureau of Inspector General Citizenship & Immigration Clark Kent Ervin (Acting) Services-Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. Public Affairs Asst. Sec. (Acting) General Counsel Susan K. Neely Joe D. Whitley Privacy Officer State and Local Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Coordination Daniel W. Sutherland Special Asst. to the Director of the Secret Secretary for Private Service- W. Ralph Basham Sector- Al Martinez-Fonts Secretary Tom Ridge International Affairs National Capital Region Coordination-Michael Byrne Deputy Secretary Gordon England Shared Services Counter Narcotics Small and Chief of Staff Disadvantaged Business D I R E C T O R A T E S Under Secretary Under Secretary Under Secretary Information Analysis and Management Science and Technology Infrastructure Protection Janet Hale Charles McQueary Frank Libutti Under Secretary Under Secretary Border and Transportation Emergency Preparedness Security and Response Asa Hutchison Michael Brown —2— THECIPREPORT MAY 2003 / VOLUME 1, NUMBER 11 Secretary: Tom Ridge land defense was to develop and Ridge was raised in a working On January 24, 2003, Tom coordinate a comprehensive class family in veterans' public Ridge became the first housing in Erie. He earned a Secretary of the Department scholarship to Harvard, graduating of Homeland Security. Ridge with honors in 1967. After his first will work with more than year at The Dickinson School of 180,000 employees from Law, he was drafted into the U.S. combined agencies to Army, where he served as an strengthen our borders, pro- infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, vide for intelligence analysis earning the Bronze Star for Valor. and infrastructure protection, After returning to Pennsylvania, improve the use of science he earned his law degree and and technology to counter Tom Ridge was in private practice before weapons of mass destruction, becoming assistant district attor- and to create a comprehen- national strategy to strengthen the ney in Erie County. He was elected DHS Who’ssive Who response and recovery United States against terrorist to Congress in 1982. He was the division. threats or attacks. In the words of first enlisted Vietnam combat veter- President George W. Bush, he had an elected to the U.S. House, and Tom Ridge was sworn in as the the strength, experience, personal was overwhelmingly re-elected six first Director of the Office of commitment and authority to times. Governor Ridge and his Homeland Security in October accomplish this critical mission. wife, Michele, the former executive 2001, following the tragic events director of the Erie County Library of September 11. The charge to Born Aug. 26, 1945, in system, have two children, Lesley the nation's new director of home- Pittsburgh's Steel Valley, Gov. and Tommy. Deputy Secretary: annual budget in excess of Systems company and as the Gordon England $110B and over 800,000 person- principal of a mergers and acqui- nel. sition consulting company. Gordon England Mr. England served as executive A native of Baltimore, Mr. England was confirmed as vice president of General graduated from the University of the first Deputy Dynamics Corporation from 1997 Maryland in 1961 with a bache- Secretary in the until 2001 and was responsible lor's degree in electrical engineer- U.S. Department of for two major sectors of the cor- ing. In 1975 he earned a mas- Homeland Security poration: Information Systems ter's degree in business adminis- on January 30, 2003. and International. Previously, he tration from the M.J. Neeley Previously, Secretary England served as executive vice presi- School of Business at Texas served as the 72nd Secretary of dent of the Combat Systems Christian University and is a mem- the Navy from May 24, 2001 until Group, president of General ber of various honorary societies: confirmation as Deputy Secretary. Dynamics Fort Worth aircraft Beta Gamma Sigma (business), As Secretary of the Navy, Mr. company (later Lockheed), presi- Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership) England was responsible for an dent of General Dynamics Land and Eta Kappa Nu (engineering). —3— THECIPREPORT MAY 2003 / VOLUME 1, NUMBER 11 Under Secretary for Associate Administrator for Department of Management: Janet Hale Finance for the House of Housing and Urban Representatives and the Development, Vice Janet Hale was confirmed on Associate Director for Economics President with the March 6 as Under Secretary and Government at the Office of U.S. Telephone for Management. Management and Budget, Association, and Prior to her nomination and responsible for budget and policy Executive Vice confirmation as Under development, regulatory reform, President for the University of Secretary, Ms. Hale served as and financial management for the Pennsylvania. the Assistant Secretary for departments of Treasury, Budget, Technology and Transportation, Commerce, She graduated from Miami University Finance for the U.S. Justice, and 25 smaller agencies. in Oxford, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Department of Health and Ms. Hale has also served as the Science in Education and received a Human Services (HHS), and Assistant Secretary for Budget and Master in Public Administration from as chief financial officer and Programs at the Department of the Harvard University, John F. DHS Who’schief Who information officer. Transportation, Acting Assistant Kennedy School of Government. Prior to HHS, she was the Secretary of Housing at the Under Secretary for Science and President, General Dynamics units for AT&T, Lucent Technology: Dr. Charles E. Advanced Technology systems, in Technologies, and as a Director McQueary Greensboro, N.C., a company that for AT&T Bell Laboratories. focuses on electro-optic under- Dr. Charles E. sea systems, networking and Dr. McQueary holds both a Ph.D. McQueary is Under decision support systems, active in Engineering Mechanics and an Secretary for control systems, signal processing M.S. in Mechanical Engineering Science and solutions and software solutions. from the University of Texas, Technology, Austin. The University of Texas Department of Prior to General Dynamics, Dr. has named McQueary a Homeland Security. Prior to that, McQueary served