All Hazards Emergency Response and Recovery

Introduction to Homeland Security
Introduction to Homeland Security
Homeland Security The Essentials
Homeland Security The Essentials

Response Policies

Strategic National Stockpile

  • America’s Stockpiles Are Hardly Strategic (Defense One, February 9, 2021): This article argues that the country needs to assess the value of current stockpiles before assembling any new reserve of critical commodities (in the aftermath of COVID-19).

Response Technologies and Innovations

Response Issues / Analysis

  • Delta and disasters push FEMA close to the breaking point (Politico, September 8, 2021): An unprecedented convergence of disasters is straining the capacity of the Federal Emergency Management Agency close to its limit, as it grapples with a historic wildfire season, devastation from Hurricane Ida and the surging Covid-19 outbreak.”

Recovery

9/11: Inside 20 years of disaster recovery efforts (Houston.Com, September 8, 2021): “Twenty years ago the members of Texas Task Force One rode in to the chaos of Lower Manhattan and became part of an unprecedented search and rescue effort. Since then, the task force has been deployed dozens of times to search for survivors in the aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes, as well as provide support during national security events.”