Prerequisite: None

Issued on February 12, 2007, Homeland Security Presidential Directive-19 (HSPD-19) established national policies regarding terrorist explosive attacks and called for development of a national strategy and implementation plan for how to more effectively deter, prevent, detect, protect against, and respond to terrorist use of explosives. In order to coordinate implementation of the national strategy, the HSPD-19 Implementation Joint Program Office (JPO) was established to serve as the joint, authoritative Federal Government resource for HSPD-19 policy, planning, and decision support.

 

This federal interagency effort is led by DHS, DOJ, DOD and ODNI. Additionally, the HSPD-19 Implementation Plan directs DHS to coordinate national Counter-IED RDT&E efforts. This session will address current approaches being taken to foster interagency collaboration and information sharing amongst Federal Counter-IED programs, and maximize efficiencies while reducing gaps and redundancies. It will also highlight the research challenges for countering IEDs, and opportunities for partnering with the federal government in this area.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how the US government is working to combat terrorism through HSPD-19 and how the HSPD-19 Joint Program Office will coordinate the activities of multiple federal agencies to accomplish the goals set out in HSPD-19
  

• Learn how the OSTP through the NSTC Subcommittee on Domestic IEDs is bringing federal agencies together to craft a unified approach to research, development, test and evaluation to combat terrorist use of explosives in the US

• Learn where the federal government is focusing on research in this area, what opportunities exist for technology demonstrations, and how these efforts will support state, local, tribal and territorial agencies, and how to become involved with these programs