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 Mohamed this is what needs to be done

Up to this point in this course, you have been asked to review, evaluate, assess, and write about existing state and federal homeland security strategic planning documents. Now you have an opportunity, in a group setting, to prepare your own State Homeland Security Strategic Plan (SHSSP).

The Project

As a group, you will prepare a draft SHSSP for State A. You can read the scenario by clicking on the following link:

State A Strategic Planning Scenario Document

Your plan will be developed in accordance with the most recent guidance documents issued by DHS to the states, which are the 2005 State and Urban Area Homeland Security Strategy: Guidance on Aligning Strategies with the National Preparedness Goal ; the 2007 National Preparedness Guidelines ; the Homeland Security Institute’s Homeland Security Strategic Planning: Mission Area Analysis ; and other federal guidelines, as well as any widely accepted best practices. 

This is in the link above and what you should be using to create the NIPP portion of the plan

 

Infrastructure

 

State A has considerable infrastructure that is threatened by both deferred maintenance and malevolent acts such as terrorism. State A has a vast and varied transportation system:

The system sees more than 140 billion vehicle miles driven on almost 110,000 miles of highways and more than 18,000 highway bridges.

Over 500 public and private aviation facilities serve 84 million passengers annually.

The state’s ports handle more than 150 million tons of freight each year.

Approximately 73.5 million tons of freight move across 3,500 miles of railroads annually.

These railroads also provide facilities that serve approximately 1.5 million intercity passenger rail riders.

Each day, 7.1 million passengers are served by more than 130 public transit operators, including subway, commuter rail, and buses.

 

Other major infrastructure includes the following:

Power-generating stations

An electrical grid that is integrated into a regional grid

Numerous major pipelines carrying fuel and natural gas essential for winter heating, vehicle fueling, power plant operation, and fueling manufacturing and other economic activity

Numerous high-hazard, large dams that provide electricity generation, flood control, recreation, transportation, drinking water, and agricultural operations

 

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