Category: Homeland Security

Once you begin data collection, for those two weeks (or however long you set your data collection period to be), your research essentially stops. Take advantage of this time. Begin writing about your research. You can write everything up to the results and discussion portion of your dissemination phase. This includes:
Introduction-
Significance
Review of literature — this is your expanded review of literature you did in hour 1
IRB approval — this just takes a sentence
Methodology — quant/qual and other descriptives
Sample — recruitment, size, description

Submit your Research Design
Review your articles/sources and continue writing your 25 -page literature review due week eight
Research Design is due at the end of Week 7: describe how you will test the hypothesis and carry out your analysis. This section describes the data to be used to test the hypothesis, how the student will operationalize and collect data on his/her variables, and the analytic methods that to be used, noting potential biases and limitations to the research approach. It should include:
Identification and operationalization (measurement) of variables.
A sampling plan (i.e., study population and sampling procedures, if appropriate).
Justification of case studies used.
Data collection/sources (secondary literature, archives, interviews, surveys, etc.).
a summary of analysis procedures (pattern-matching, etc.); and
Limitations of study and bias discussion.
Submission Instructions:

Please review the rubric and Capstone Manual for more specific guidelines on expectations; however, please note you are to provide comprehensive analysis of details, facts, and concepts in a logical sequence. You should demonstrate a higher- level of critical thinking necessary for 500-600 level work. You are to provide well-supported ideas and reflection with a variety of current and/or world views in the assignment. You are expected to present a genuine intellectual development of ideas throughout assignment. You should thoroughly understand and excel in explaining all major points. An original, unique, and/or imaginative approach to overall ideas, concepts, and findings is required. Overall format of assignment needs to include an appropriate introduction (or abstract), well- developed paragraphs, and conclusion. Finished assignment demonstrates your ability to plan and organize research in a logical sequence.
Research Design Rubric – Grading Rubric
Major Areas to Review
Points Available

Hypothesis/Research Questions:
These are your research questions (what you plan to measure/examine). This section may also be in paragraph form. Research questions must be individual questions that each measures only one item (one question = one measurement). A couple of questions are expected in this section (typically 2 to 5). You MUST put these questions in traditional null hypotheses format.
If you are conducting a qualitative study, you may use your research questions.
For example: There is no statistical significant difference between someone who grows up in a poor neighborhood and someone from a middle or upper class neighborhood likely involvement in crime (quantitative design would use this example).
For example: If someone grows up in a poor neighborhood, they will be more likely to be involved with crime than someone in a middle or upper class neighborhood.
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The Research Design Section:
•Identification and operationalization (measurement) of variables.
•A sampling plan (i.e., study population and sampling procedures, if appropriate).
•Justification of case studies used.
•Data collection/sources (secondary literature, archives, interviews, surveys, etc.).
•a summary of analysis procedures (pattern-matching, etc.); and
•Limitations of study and bias discussion.
In short, your research design should be the “step by step” directions that would enable a researcher to carry out and execute your research should you be unable to conduct the study yourself. (Think of this as directions from how to get to point A to point B. This detail is necessary as it demonstrates that you understand how to best do your research for your topic.)
Research Design Lecture by Lisa Campbell (Youtube)
A Brief Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods (Youtube)
Types of Research Design: Education Portal Academy (Youtube)
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Turnitin will be used to assess originality report and supports attachments only—submit the paper as an attachment with less than 15% originality.
Searching for Literature Reviews: Before You Write, You Have to Find (Youtube)
Reviewing a Sample Literature Review (Part I) (Youtube)
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Reference:
Incorporated all this sections references into one comprehensive list and should be in APA 6th Edition format.
Also if you had a reference in your reference section, you must have a citation from that work somewhere in the body of your work. The citations and references must match up.
You will be strictly held to the APA standards. Proper citations, in format and use as well as proper references must be implemented.
Provided scholarly articles to support selected topic in the reference area.
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Writing Format: APA
What is Plagiarism and How to Avoid It: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIsLV9zOOe0
Writing Help: http://apus.campusguides.com/writing/thesiscapstone
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Writing Commons: http://writingcommons.org/open-text/writing-processes/format/apa-format
APA and MLA Citation Game Home Page:
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Grammatical, spelling or punctuation—the writing is grammatically correct, clear and concise. The response is well formulated and easy to read and understand. Correct terminology was used when needed.
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Total
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To complete this assignment, perform the following tasks:
Please first read the Hurricane Chester Exercise Instructions that provides an overview of the assignment.
Next, please read the Participant Guide that provides detailed guidance on how to conduct the exercise.
If you have any questions on how to complete the exercise, please contact me.
Once you fully understand the assignment, please conduct the exercise by reading the HMLS 495 Exercise Slides.
Finally, please complete the Hurricane Chester Exercise Report Template as the template is. You can use the PDF form and fill it in. If you need to convert it to MS Word that is fine as well. Please use the Hurricane Chester Exercise Report Template v1.1 attached; this is crucial to the project do not modify the template.
Remember to turn in the completed report on time.
PDF – HMLS 495 Exercise Slides
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-content/tus/hmls/hmls-495/document/HMLS%20495%20Exercise%20Slides.pdf?ou=930931
PDF – Participant Guide
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-content/tus/hmls/hmls-495/document/Participants%20Guide.pdf?ou=930931
PDF – Hurricane Chester Exercise Instructions v1.2
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-content/tus/hmls/hmls-495/document/Participants%20Guide.pdf?ou=930931
PDF – Hurricane Chester Exercise Report Template v1.1
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-content/tus/hmls/hmls-495/document/Hurricane%20Chester%20Exercise%20Report%20Template%20v1.1.pdf?ou=930931
The leadership exercise activity is based on the physical characteristics and resources of a real facility located in New York City. The exercise focuses on an operational and planning scenario and includes the development of an Exercise Report also known as an After-Action Report (AAR).
The AAR is created by incorporating targeted leadership knowledge development, self-assessment assignments, and homeland security or public safety leadership analysis with your observations from the leadership exercise. The AAR represents a personal understanding and plan of public safety leadership based on the course research, lecture content, conferences, reports, the leadership exercise, and your leadership performance. The completed AAR correlates with professional homeland security and public safety leadership best practices, resulting in a tangible product that can become a base for future leadership development.
The AAR will be developed using the provided template and structured to cover all of the following topics:
Presentation and discussion of academic and anecdotal resource materials
Deconstruction of current homeland security or public safety leadership
Identification of acceptable and effective professional homeland security or public safety leadership principles
Collation of data from personal leadership self-assessment assignments and Personal Leadership History Report
Comparison and contrast of self-assessment data, to include applicability, with best practices and identified leadership principles
Presentation and discussion of future personal leadership development and opportunity

In a two page paper, concisely analyze and critique the CIA’s use of the source known as Curveball. Address the following points in your paper.
Draft overall summary, including points that the analysis of the source may have done well and poorly.
List and describe 5-6 issues, according to the Intellectual Standards, with the observations made by Curveball, which prompted the US invasion of Iraq.
Submit your paper as an essay complete with an introduction, a well-developed body to present your argument with evidence, and a conclusion.
Use headings and subtitles as needed to improve readability.
Remember to cite your assertions throughout the paper.
Support your statements with evidence from the required studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style.

Part 1: Intelligence Failures
Analyze previous Intelligence Failures and assess responses to those failures
How did failures and responses lead to changes in the intelligence community in the past?
Part 2: 9/11 Commission
How did the 9/11 terror attacks and the recommendations in the 9/11 Commission ReportOpens in new window (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 2004) change the Intelligence Community?
Support your statements with evidence from the required studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style.

A logic model is a widely used tool in assessing public policies and programs. This assignment assists student KSA development in terms of producing an original logic model, including analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of a real-world policy or program’s design and application. The assignment relates to concepts and issues covered in Modules 1 and 2 of the course and assists students in learning how to identify and assess causal relationships, as well as helping develop basic research and policy analysis skills. Finally, the assignment helps continued improvement in written communication skills as well permitting students to improved subject area knowledge about a program or policy relevant to their career interests.
As is discussed in the Module 2, Lecture Part A video, the choice of policy or program area is open. A helpful way to think of your choice of policy or program topic is to select an area that you would like to learn more about — or improve your current understanding. For instance, you might choice FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMPG) because you would like to examine how a local government functions within that funding framework. Or you might choose a much broader policy area (e.g. the National Flood Insurance Program) that is well-established, or a newer domain (e.g. U.S. national cybersecurity strategy) to evaluate past or potential performance of those policies or strategies. Or, as you might have noticed that about one week ago the Biden Administration released the 2022 National Biodefense Strategy. If you have an interest in biodefense / biosecurity issues, you could go through that document and assess the underlying logic of the strategy – and provide your characterization through the short report paper you will produce.
Bottom line: choose something of value to your own subject area knowledge development — whatever level of government, policy domain, or organization type might be responsible for the policy or program effort.
This assignment asks students to select any emergency or disaster management or homeland security-related program or a policy administered by a public agency at any level of government. The student will present an assessment of the underlying causal logic—explaining how the program or policy is intended to function and how it yields specific outputs and outcomes. To do so, the student should provide a short logic model description, including a graphic representation, of the selected program or policy implementation effort, and an assessment of efficacy in practice.
In terms of assignment details: the student’s task for this assignment is to provide a description of how a policy or program operates in practice. Please note: the paper should include a graphical representation of program operations or policy elements as this is a basic feature of any logic model presentation.
In terms of substance and structure: the paper should provide a very short background on the public sector agency selected, coupled with an overview of the policy or program being assessed. The paper then should provide a logic model depiction of the policy or program, and guide the reader through an explanation of its “inputs,” “activities,” and “outcomes” elements. (The unit readings and lecture materials will provide further guidance on logic models as an analytic tool.) The paper should characterize how these elements interact and function in terms of producing observable outcomes (either or both short or long-term outcomes, depending on the particulars of the program/policy being observed). The paper should conclude with a brief analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the efficacy of the design and functioning of the policy or program’s internal logic. In sum: select a policy or program of interest to you, research the basic operational elements and purpose, provide a short background on the organization and program, present the logic model (including a standard graphical representation of operational elements), and then assess, briefly, what you see as the strengths or weaknesses of the program’s operating logic in practice.

Will be about ICE and Border Patrol. How can Border Patrol policies affect American Families? Are the laws too strict regarding deportation? Is ICE a detriment to humanity?

Read the attached document and address the following question.
In Chapter 2 of the Eller, et al. text, the authors outline a discussion of evidence-based practices or management in the public sector. How would you define the concept of evidence-based practice or management? In your own professional experience, how often is sound evidence-based decision-making in public organizations? What factors tend to promote or inhibit such practices?
Please reference the attached document.

Here is the specific format:
Title Page (APA format)
Abstract (250 words, no quotes or paraphrases. This is your “elevator speech” of the research)
Introduction (Research Question and Hypothesis)
Literature Review (Note this is not an annotated bibliography but a Literature Review)
Methodology – don’t simply state qualitative methodology.
Analysis & Findings
Conclusion and Recommendations
Reference list (minimum 10 outside references).
Literature Review: Include/highlight this section in your paper.
Methodology: Include/highlight this section provides the reader with a descriiption of how you carried out your qualitative research project, and the variables you identified and analyzed. It describes any special considerations and defines any limitations and terms specific to this project, if necessary. This section can be brief or more complicated, depending on the project, written in a single page. I want to see more than “I used qualitative methods”….what do you specifically mean? Did you use content analysis? Did you use Case Study? These questions are being asked NOW so that you are not surprised in other courses that require this to be included. Types of popular Methodologies include: (1) Case Study, (2) Content Analysis etc. Analysis and Findings: Include/highlight this section. They are not the same as conclusions. In the analysis component of this section you identify how you analyzed the data. The second part is the finding you got from your analysis of the data. The findings are the facts that you developed, not your interpretation of the facts. That interpretation is conducted in the conclusions and recommendations section of the paper. Findings will come from the prior research you examined and your analysis of those prior findings to create new findings for your paper. While there may be some facts that are such that they will stand and translate to your paper, the intent is to create new knowledge, so you will normally analyze the data to create your own findings of what facts that data represents. Conclusions and Recommendations: This is the section where you give your interpretation of the data. Here you tell the reader what the findings mean. A great approach is to think about how the reader will react to your conclusion. Often the conclusions and recommendations sections will mirror the findings in construct as the researcher tells the reader what that researcher sees as the meaning of that data, their conclusions. Then, drawing on those conclusions, the researcher tells the reader what they believe needs to be done to solve/answer the research question. This section may include recognition of any needs for further research and then finishes with a traditional conclusion to the paper as a whole. Remember, your paper should seek to answer a question that helps to solve the research question and validates or culls your hypothesis. Technical Requirements
Your paper must be at a minimum of 10-12 pages (the Title and Reference pages required but do not count towards the minimum limit).
Scholarly and credible references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content. Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
Students will follow the current APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework. Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources. It is highly advised to utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc.
All submissions will be graded using the assignment rubric.
Your paper must be your own original work submitted to only one class and not recycled and the use of AI (artificial intelligence) is not allowed in preparing your paper.

From the readings, what type of nonliteral collection do you think is the most important for strategic intelligence and combat/tactical intelligence? First define what nonliteral intelligence covers and includes, then provide your response.
Readings:
https://irp.fas.org/nsa/almanac-elint.pdf
https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-figures-publications/publications/technology/elint.pdf?ver=2019-08-07-124409-477
Chapter 12 from: https://lgapi-us.libapps.com/ld.php?er_attachment_id=958148&site_id=1192&request_id=68584135&token=XPguAmTLdxMpdvb3tXXQ5hzQmhdXht32wj3hKF9y
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/enigma_01.shtml