Course Description:
This course examines information management concepts and issues related to critical homeland security mission areas including intelligence and warning, border and transportation security, domestic counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, catastrophic terrorism defense, and emergency preparedness and response.  The course provides students with “hands-on” exposure to technologies and techniques that support the planning, mitigation, response, recovery, and prediction aspects of homeland security.  It explores state-of-the-art and emerging concepts relating to intelligent agents, decision support, data/text mining, visualization, geographical information systems, and computer modeling and simulation. 

Recommended Attendance:
This course is intended for senior managers who are involved in the planning, supporting, and/or execution of missions related to homeland security.  It assumes no background in this area. 

Prerequisites
None; however, students should be very familiar with the Homeland Security Information Management (HLS) mission areas and with many of the requirements for risk assessment, consequence management, and some of the technologies needed for better information sharing and international cooperation.

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to evaluate prospective homeland security tools and techniques in terms of meeting organizational goals and requirements and create an implementation strategy for infusing these technologies into their organizations.