Emergency Operations Centers activate when an incident requires a certain level of strategic planning and response. Homeland Security and Emergency Management personnel are preparing to put the state’s Radiological Emergency Preparedness plan to the test. HSEM staff will train with other state agencies, local governments, and the state of Wisconsin, emergency workers, schools, hospitals and volunteers. The purpose is to prepare for an upcoming annual exercise. They deal with fires, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, and hazardous materials. The mission of homeland security management is to help local government, mostly cities, and counties prepare for prevent respond to and recover from human and other natural cause disasters facility that they call …show more content…
Homeland security is responsible for preventing terrorist attacks in the United States, reducing the nation’s vulnerability to terrorism, minimizing damage and assisting in the recovery of attacks that occur, ensuring that the overall economic security of the United States is not diminished by efforts, activities, and programs aimed at securing the homeland, and lastly monitoring connections between illegal drug trafficking and terrorism. Cyber security is a growing field that is tasked with preventing damage or prevention the unauthorized use or exploitation of electronic information and communication. Some issues that relate to the Homeland security is that the agency is too large to manage. The reason behind that is because of the vast array of agencies with varying missions related to homeland security. Funding is allocated without regard to a risk assessment of where attacks might occur. Money is spent on projects that have nothing to do with homeland security. Lastly, there is little assessment of myriad of programs in terms of how well they are doing or if they are truly