DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office Implementation Plan Fiscal Year 2020 (January 2020).pdf

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Department of Homeland Security Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office

Implementation Plan Fiscal Year 2020

Table of Contents Introduction

Scope

Guiding Principles

Development of the Implementation Plan

Monitoring and Evaluation

Resourcing and Partnerships

Goal 1: Anticipate, identify, and assess current and emerging WMD threats

Objective 1.1: Aggregate and analyze CBRN-related data and disseminate actionable information to DHS operational partners

Objective 1.2: Facilitate common threat understanding and enable collaboration with operational Components and key interagency, state, local and private sector partners

Objective 1.3: Anticipate emerging CBRN threats and avoid technological surprise through transformational research and development (R&D)

Goal 2: Strengthen detection and disruption of CBRN threats to the homeland

Objective 2.1: Rapidly deliver sustainable solutions to fulfill DHS Component CWMD requirements 11

Objective 2.2: Enhance domestic law enforcement and first responder detection, interdiction, response, and reporting of CBRN threats

Objective 2.3: Improve national biodefense and biosurveillance

Goal 3: Synchronize homeland counter-WMD and health security planning and execution

Objective 3.1: Lead policy and strategy formulation and coordination for DHS on WMD and health-security-related topics

Objective 3.2: Integrate strategic and operational planning related to WMD and health security issues with DHS Components, DHS Joint Task Forces, and interagency partners

Objective 3.3: Develop and provide subject matter expertise to assist senior leaders and partners, particularly during crisis situations

Objective 3.4: Enhance coordination of the Department’s medical operational activities across the Components to ensure a unified approach

Goal 4: Mature and strengthen the CWMD Office as an Operational Support Component

Objective 4.1: Attract, develop, and retain a performance-driven workforce

Objective 4.2: Enhance organizational agility and decision making

Objective 4.3: Optimize financial operations, human resource management, information technology, facilities, and security to enable CWMD mission success

Appendix A: Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office Implementation Plan (“Implementation Plan”) lays out the roles, responsibilities, programs, and key actions for accomplishing the goals and objectives in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office Strategy 2019, covering the period of Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-2024 (“Strategy”). This Implementation Plan is a critical link between the Strategy and the Office’s capabilities, requirements, and resourcing business processes. It allows CWMD to assess progress and measure impact to ensure the Strategy is successful and that CWMD fulfills its legislative requirements and the guidance provided by national and Department-level policy. The Implementation Plan will be assessed annually and updated as needed to address evolving priorities and changes in the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN), and health security threat and operating environment.

Scope The Implementation Plan is organized around the four goals articulated in the Strategy. While the Strategy attempts to address the full spectrum of CWMD Office activities to counter weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats and health security matters, this Implementation Plan takes a more focused approach by highlighting priority activities, actions, and areas of change for the Office’s counter-WMD mission.

Guiding Principles In completing the Key Actions within this Implementation Plan, we will follow four guiding principles:

• Fostering a Collaborative and Inclusive Team Environment: Performing our mission requires a diverse and agile CWMD workforce with the right competencies (knowledge, skills, and abilities) working as a team to meet rapidly changing challenges. We will make sure all our voices are heard and ensure we align people to the right jobs.

• Gathering Subject Matter Experts and Relying on their Expertise to Find the Right Solution:

Effectively countering WMD requires a diverse range of subject matter expertise across many scientific fields and vocational disciplines. We will gather the right people from all levels of government, academia, and the private sector scientific community to help analyze tough problems and find the right solutions to keep our nation safe from the most dangerous threats.

• Delivering Operator-Driven Solutions and Championing Stakeholder Needs: Our team meets DHS and SLTT mission needs with prioritized material and non-material solutions through policy, strategy, technology development, acquisition, training, and exercises to realize next generation capabilities. We understand the needs of our mission partners and advocate for them to the broader CWMD community.

MISSION

Enable operational partners to prevent the use of WMD against the homeland and promote readiness for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and health security threats.

VISION

DHS CWMD is the leader in preventing WMD attacks through timely, responsive support to operational partners.

• Continuously Improving the CWMD Workforce Environment and Empowering Our Team:

Our workforce environment is a key factor in our mission success. We will identify and implement policies and practices to modernize our support services, sharpen our skills, and delegate decision-making to the lowest appropriate level.

Development of the Implementation Plan The Assistant Secretary for CWMD directed the creation of the Implementation Plan to lay out steps and Key Actions to achieve the Office’s mission and vision. This Implementation Plan was developed through a CWMD Office cross-Directorate working group chaired by the Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate and overseen by the CWMD Office Senior Management Council. Directorate representation and participation through the working group was robust and included representatives from the following organizations:

• Office of the Chief Medical Officer

• CWMD Front Office

• Enterprise Services Directorate

• Information Analysis Directorate

• Operations Support Directorate

• Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate

• Systems Support Directorate

Roles and responsibilities within this Implementation Plan are allocated at the Directorate level, except for four congressionally required major programs: BioWatch; Food, Agricultural, and Veterinary Defense (FAVD); the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC); and Securing the Cities (STC).

Although this Implementation Plan details specific Key Actions and activities, it does not supersede existing Office or Departmental analysis, resourcing and budgeting, programmatic, or other related processes.

Implementation of some of the actions in this document may require the development of additional capabilities and resources and is subject to the availability of funds. Directorates will use this Implementation Plan as a tool to support their annual resourcing and budget requests by demonstrating linkages to the Office strategic objectives articulated in this document and Departmental objectives.

Ultimately, the completion of Key Actions within this Implementation Plan requires successful integration with existing downstream business management, budgetary, and resource allocation processes.

Monitoring and Evaluation This Implementation Plan is intended to be an iterative document capable of adapting to the threat environment and the Office’s budget and priorities. As a result, it is a living document subject to change.

Annual modifications to Key Actions, roles, responsibilities, and timelines are expected. Strategy, Plans, and Policy (SPP) will provide the Assistant Secretary (A/S) with annual updates on the progress made in executing the Key Actions outlined in this Implementation Plan and will work with each Directorate to collect summaries of the milestone accomplishments, challenges, or obstacles to completion, and recommendations for new or modified actions. SPP will also revise this Implementation Plan based on Directorate inputs and will provide an updated version to the A/S 60 days before the start of the next FY.

Enterprise Services Directorate will support and reinforce Directorate implementation by ensuring that annual Directorate budget justifications demonstrate connectivity to the Implementation Plan and Office strategic outcomes. Enterprise Services Directorate will also utilize out-year Key Actions to inform future budget builds.

Resourcing and Partnerships Key Actions captured within this document are priorities for the CWMD Office. However, completion of these Key Actions is predicated on the availability of budget and other resources, sufficient authority, and the relative priority of the activity in comparison to Office activities outside the scope of the Strategy. The extent to which this Implementation Plan is executed also relies on milestone alignment with Presidential and DHS leadership priorities as identified in guiding strategic documents. Continued cooperation and productive collaboration with external stakeholders is also paramount. Successful implementation of this plan requires the sustained, coordinated, and complementary efforts of DHS Components and federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (FSLTT) stakeholders as well as international partners. Many of the Key Actions also will require coordination and support beyond operational Components, such as partners in the Office of General Counsel and the DHS Privacy Office.

Goal 1: Anticipate, identify, and assess current and emerging WMD threats Dangers posed by WMD and other CBRN threats are constantly evolving through scientific advancement, a shifting adversarial environment, and the increasing pervasiveness of dual-use technologies. This dynamic environment requires diligence and anticipation of future threats and looking over technological and geopolitical horizons to ensure adversaries do not gain the upper hand. The Office will lean forward, working to ensure operators have the current threat picture to deal with the problems of today while providing them with the intelligence, data, and tools to ensure they are equipped to mitigate the problems of tomorrow.

Objective 1.1: Aggregate and analyze CBRN-related data and disseminate actionable information to DHS operational partners The Office will develop capabilities for global information awareness of CWMD capabilities and WMD threats by taking a data-driven approach to connect our partners with the information they need to execute our collective mission. By employing novel data-mining and analytical methods and integrating disparate data sources, from domestic commercial databases and streams of commerce to real-time intelligence reporting from abroad, we will provide early warning of WMD threats emerging within the homeland or those with the potential to reach our shores. We will provide the full spectrum of the information needed by operators to execute their missions, from strategic and threat analysis through early warning of and adjudication support for CBRN and other health-related alarms.

Outcome Statement The Key Actions completed under this objective will ensure operational partners have timely and relevant CBRN threat data to inform their operational or strategic risk-based decisions based on the Office’s thorough understanding of both CBRN and health security threats from the application of the latest collection and analytical methodologies and the informational needs of operational partners. Using the systems and methods provided by CWMD, operational partners will be better able to detect potential anomalies in day-to-day activity and streams of commerce highlighting potential vulnerabilities or nefarious activity. Where technically feasible, detection of anomalies in data streams are automated, providing alerts and actionable information to field operational elements with limited need for human analytical support. While ensuring classified sources and methods are protected, the CWMD Office will work with operational partners to reduce the classification of threat and anomaly information to ensure it can be disseminated to the widest swath of operational partners.

Sub-objective 1.1.1: Aggregate CBRN-related data

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Information Analysis Directorate

• Support: Operations Support Directorate and Systems Support Directorate

Key Actions

• Develop technical requirements for the CWMD Information Architecture and work with operational partners to obtain CBRN data feeds and to tailor user interfaces.

• Implement applications to automate the creation of User Defined Rules for the Import Cargo group at the National Targeting Center, based on intelligence or targeting analysis.

• Provide rapid installation of data and data tools into the CWMD Information Architecture user environment, including development, test, and production enclaves.

• Rapidly integrate CBRN data streams and applications into the CWMD Information Architecture portfolio, including those obtained from international sources as appropriate.

Sub-objective 1.1.2: Analyze CBRN-related data

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Information Analysis Directorate

• Support: Operations Support Directorate and Systems Support Directorate

Key Actions

• Provide expert interpretation of potential or emerging CBRN threat data, obtained from sensors and information sources provided by interagency partners within the network, including threat and risk analyses informed by DHS Component and domestic state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) public safety operators and medical first responders/receivers.

• Place embedded analysts to support CBRN, FAVD, and other homeland security intelligence and information requirements and enable collaborative opportunities with the representative agencies.

• Conduct semiannual trend analysis of CBRN threat data obtained from a network of CWMD sensors and other related systems.

Sub-objective 1.1.3: Disseminate actionable CBRN-related threat and risk information to DHS operational and strategic partners

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Information Analysis Directorate

• Support: Operations Support Directorate and Systems Support Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Disseminate CBRN detection data trend analysis and threat and risk assessment products to DHS

Operational decision makers.

• Enhance operational partner awareness of CBRN and health security threat and risk information;

expand access to tailored intelligence products and real-time situational awareness of operational activities.

• Produce technological solutions for systems that drive relevant information to, from, and among operators.

• Through the CWMD Watch Desk, provide 24/7/365 situational awareness and emerging threat notification and operations center engagement capability.

• Provide a common operational picture to support CWMD Office senior leadership through real-time geospatial and dashboard capabilities.

• Provide coordination and subject matter expertise support to DHS operational Components’ counterproliferation investigations through liaison officers to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations and Export Enforcement Coordination Center.

Objective 1.2: Facilitate common threat understanding and enable collaboration with operational Components and key interagency, state, local and private sector partners The Office will embed analysts into operational federal partners to facilitate common WMD and CBRN threat and risk understanding and improve interoperability between DHS and its operational partners. We will facilitate a steady, two-way flow of intelligence and threat reporting to partner organizations to increase awareness and drive requirements, resource allocation, and operational decision making. Sharing threat and risk information with federal, first responder, private sector, and international partners ensures that the most up-to-date information is in the hands of the people best positioned to counter or respond to WMD and health security threats.

Outcome Statement The Key Actions completed under this objective will ensure the CWMD Office serves as a collaboration hub to foster a shared understanding of threats and risks and provides and shares intelligence and situational awareness products at the nexus of the federal intelligence community, DHS Components, and (through State Fusion Centers) SLTT partners. As a central conduit between non-intelligence community (IC) federal and SLTT partners, the CWMD Office helps drive national-level priority intelligence requirements and is a key contributor to fulfillment of DHS Intelligence and Analysis’ IC roles and responsibilities as they relate to WMD and health security issues.

Sub-objective 1.2.1: Collaborate with DHS and key interagency partners on assessment of threats and risks

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Information Analysis Directorate

• Support: Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Gather and validate DHS intelligence collection requirements and Intelligence Information Reports on CBRN and related issues from DHS Components and work with the IC to share as appropriate.

• Partner with DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate to establish CBRN and health security risk analysis requirements and develop a process to communicate risk to inform operational and strategic decisions of DHS and interagency customers.

• Support National Targeting Center customers to ensure that timely CBRN threat information is provided. Re-initiate Red Team support to facilitate, improve, and enhance domestic law enforcement and first responder CBRN detection, interdiction, response, and threat reporting for CBRN-related issues.

• Share intelligence and operational information to help identify the nexuses between proliferation activity and WMD terrorism; work with Homeland Security Investigations and the Export Enforcement Coordination Center to inform risk assessments.

• Reconstitute the radiological and nuclear (R/N) systems engineering capabilities that provided a way to analyze, plan, prioritize, and implement programs making up the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture to lower the risk of an R/N weapon being used in the U.S. As appropriate, apply these same methodologies to the chemical and biological threats.

Sub-objective 1.2.2: Facilitate common threat and risk understanding among key partners

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Information Analysis Directorate

• Support: Operations Support Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Attend information sharing/intelligence collaboration meetings on behalf of CWMD and/or DHS, such as the State Department’s Nuclear Trafficking Response Group, DHS Co-Chaired Defense Against Agroterrorism Working Group, and DHS law enforcement collaborative forums like the Export Enforcement Coordination Center working group.

• Disseminate finished information and intelligence analysis products to DHS, interagency, and (through State Fusion Centers) SLTT operational and strategic decision makers and the private sector.

• Develop analytic tools to support development of information and intelligence products by the CWMD Office to inform the threat landscape, including establishing an operational common intelligence picture geospatial application used by DHS Components and key interagency partners such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and private sector partners as appropriate.

• Through NBIC, increase in the number of DHS, interagency, SLTT, and private sector operators that report receiving, and are satisfied with access to, biological threat products that are tailored to their needs. Measure satisfaction via a federal stakeholder annual survey.

• Through STC, consistent with established Domestic Detection Concept of Operations (CONOPS), establish coordination mechanisms between operational partners for steady-state operations, enhanced steady-state operations, and search operations including an Information Exchange Plan.

• Through embedded analysts at DHS Component operations centers and other key operations coordination nodes, such as the Joint Task Force Headquarters, formalize ongoing collaboration and ensure situational awareness information exchange.

Sub-objective 1.2.3: Collaborate with SLTT and private sector partners on assessment of threats and risks

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Information Analysis Directorate

• Support: Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate, Operations Support Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Gather and validate DHS intelligence collection requirements and Intelligence Information Reports on CBRN and related issues from SLTT partners and work with the IC to share as appropriate.

• Through FAVD, develop and implement the State & County Food and Agriculture Bio Defense Vulnerability Assessment Tool and survey as a means of building common understanding of threat and risk.

• Partner with DHS S&T Directorate to establish the CBRN risk analysis requirement and develop a process to communicate CBRN risk to inform operational and strategic decisions of SLTT customers.

• Support state and urban area governments through Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) guidance and technical assistance for CBRN threats.

• Provide intelligence and informational CBRN, FAVD, health security, and other homeland security products to regional Fusion Centers to support SLTT communities within their areas of responsibility.

• Conduct locally tailored capability and risk assessments, including assessment of personnel, material, processes, competencies, and decision making, to assess current CBRN defense capabilities and requirements.

• Represent CWMD equities, in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in the Food, Agriculture, and Veterinary Government Coordinating Council and Sector Coordinating Council.

Objective 1.3: Anticipate emerging CBRN threats and avoid technological surprise through transformational research and development (R&D) The Office, in collaboration with interagency and private sector partners, will identify technological trends and advancements relevant to CBRN security and act quickly to counter them. Through R&D, the Office will identify and pursue transformational advancement opportunities in data analytics, screening and detector technologies, and other scientific areas to ensure that operators have the equipment and tools needed to address incipient threats and are always at least one step ahead of potential adversaries.

Outcome Statement The Key Actions completed under this objective will ensure that the CWMD Office has a cutting-edge understanding of how new and rapidly developing technologies will enhance existing CBRN threats and potentially pose new threats and how those technologies can both undermine existing defenses and be leveraged to respond to existing and emerging threats.

Sub-objective 1.3.1: Understand potential of new technologies to enhance CBRN threats and/or defeat CBRN countermeasures

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Systems Support Directorate

• Support: Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate, Information Analysis Directorate

Key Actions

• Attend and represent DHS equities in all White House Office of Science and Technology Policy engagements relevant to CBRN issues.

• Collaborate and coordinate with DHS S&T on mutually beneficial CBRN research and development processes and focus areas, to include formulating teams consisting of staff from both organizations to address specific areas of interest.

• Represent DHS at the interagency Presidential Policy Directive-33 R&D Subcommittee and similar forums.

• Provide input to the annual Nuclear Defense Research and Development Roadmap led by the Department of Defense and other interagency R&D coordination mechanisms.

• Represent DHS at key international forums such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and Global Chemical Security Congress.

Sub-objective 1.3.2: Conduct R&D to achieve transformational advancement in CWMD-related technologies

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Systems Support Directorate

• Support: Information Analysis Directorate

Key Actions

• Provide transformational CWMD technologies to operational partners that improves upon their current capabilities, simplifies CONOPS, enhances detection of previously identified threats, and enables detection capabilities of unanticipated or emerging threats.

• Develop and implement technology transition agreements to ensure promising transformational technologies have an approved path to implementation in programs of record.

• Develop and deploy adaptable technology solutions that can be rapidly reconfigured and deployed to meet changing and emerging threats. Specific near-term areas of focus include modular and open architectures and design for future upgrades, adaptations, and enhancements.

• Maintain situational awareness through CWMD Industry Engagement Program of the state of technology innovations in academia, industry, and government labs and among international partners.

• In furtherance of National Technical Nuclear Forensics Capabilities, advance the science and technology needed to understand uranium and plutonium production; transition this responsibility to the National Nuclear Security Administration in accordance with executive branch policy by

FY 2021.

Goal 2: Strengthen detection and disruption of CBRN threats to the homeland The Office provides DHS operational Components, federal agencies, and SLTT operational users a wide range of capabilities to increase the probability of detecting threats to the homeland, ranging from thousands of personal radiation detectors to complex data analytic systems. This requires the development and acquisition of a wide array of capabilities as well as implementation of the tactics, techniques, and procedures needed to employ them effectively. Our partners operate in diverse, unique environments ranging from austere conditions in the field to network nodes with vast amounts of commercial and shipping data. We must be able to understand each of these environments and the requirements to operate in them effectively to be responsive to those needs. Recognizing the key role deterrence plays in preventing WMD attacks, the Office will publicize its successes and demonstrate through exercises that our partners have the proficiency to prevent and, if necessary, respond to attacks.

Objective 2.1: Rapidly deliver sustainable solutions to fulfill DHS Component CWMD requirements As an operational support Component, the Office provides the capabilities to enable DHS operational Components to carry out their missions. The Office will document, assess, and facilitate prioritization of requirements based on identified gaps in DHS Component and other supported partner capabilities. Where a technical solution is not at hand, the Office, in conjunction with DHS and other federal agencies, will develop technology solutions and seek to transition them through acquisition and commercialization. This includes establishing and effectively employing the capability to rapidly acquire material and nonmaterial solutions for urgent operator requirements and conducting robust test and evaluation to ensure capabilities work as needed. Additionally, CWMD will work to develop CONOPS, training, and regular exercises and assessments to ensure effectiveness and long-term sustainability.

Outcome Statement The Key Actions completed under this objective will ensure the CWMD Office efficiently maintains and procures CWMD capabilities through a standardized process that supports Component requirements in a cost-effective, prioritized, and sustainable manner. In addition, these actions ensure solutions are rapidly developed and deployed against existing and emerging CBRN and health security threats and target vulnerabilities holistically and that adversaries are unable to exploit any potential gaps and seams between DHS Component operational responsibilities for CWMD missions.

Sub-objective 2.1.1: Collect and validate DHS Component and SLTT CWMD requirements

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Operations Support Directorate

• Support: Information Analysis Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Engage FSLTT partners to analyze CBRN and health-security-related threats, risks, capabilities, gaps, and vulnerabilities and use this information to create new requirements or augment existing requirements.

• Mature the Request for Requirements process used to collect and validate DHS Component requirements to further develop, acquire, and support the development of an enhanced domestic system to detect and report on CBRN threats; evaluate a full range of potential solutions across doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities to determine appropriate courses of action.

• Leverage the CWMD Requirements Oversight Council (WROC), the DHS Joint Requirements Council, and the Joint Requirements Integration and Management System process to prioritize DHS CWMD capability gaps for solution development.

• Establish a charter for the WROC to raise its visibility and encourage DHS Component collaboration in identifying, prioritizing, and fulfilling CWMD capability requirements.

• Develop scientific and responder and operator advisory groups, or participate in those led by other DHS Components, for CBRN and health-security-related threats made up of external partners that support, guide, and validate priorities, requirements, and solutions.

• Establish requirements for tools and capabilities to enable SLTT first responders to effectively respond to health-security-related incidents (e.g., drug overdose).

• Participate in and review tabletop and operational exercise results to identify new requirements or validate those already recorded.

Sub-objective 2.1.2: Deliver rapid solutions for urgent DHS Component requirements

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Systems Support Directorate

• Support: Requirements, Operations Support Directorate

Key Actions

• Provide technical assessments to support delivery of rapid capability to DHS partners.

• Develop and pilot prototype systems rapidly to deploy technology capabilities in emerging or newly prioritized threat pathways to close gaps and establish operational requirements.

• Deliver CWMD detection capabilities, including handheld chemical detectors and stand-off chemical detectors, for fentanyl and related threats; personal protective equipment; and decontamination equipment to DHS Special Mission Units.

• Standardize processes for development of mission needs and requirements, including derivations from established requirements; reliability and maintainability; cybersecurity planning; supply chain risk management; and support features such as operating hours.

Sub-objective 2.1.3: Develop and acquire sustainable solutions for DHS Component requirements

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Systems Support Directorate

• Support: Requirements, Operations Support Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Develop acquisition strategies for Component Acquisition Executive approval to procure and deliver required capabilities; ensure acquired capabilities have a lifecycle support plan that certifies capabilities are sustained over the lifespan of the capability.

• Support all DHS operational Components preventing CWMD threats by developing, acquiring, and deploying CBRN detection, identification, and mitigation systems and equipment that meet or exceed operational requirements and close mission gaps. Examples include:

• Enhanced Radiation Portal Monitors (RPM) for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at land and sea ports of entry, including technology to enable remote operations, refreshing technology for mobile RPMs, integrating radiation detection equipment into systems being deployed to international rail crossings, and initiating development of an open architecture to recapitalize RPMs;

• Handheld chemical detectors and stand-off chemical detectors for substances such as fentanyl to Special Mission Units;

• Maritime personal radiation detectors (PRDs) for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG); and

• Prototype capability to scan persistently for R/N threats from small vessels at a distance in intercoastal and interior waterways.

• Coordinate configuration management processes with operational partners and industry to promote mission readiness and improve sustainment for new systems fielded by the CWMD Office.

• Through FAVD, coordinate with other Department Components, including CBP, as appropriate, on activities related to food and agriculture security and screening procedures for domestic and imported products.

• Conduct exercises and operational training events to validate the efficacy of solutions delivered to DHS Component operational partners. Wherever possible, provide train-the-trainer courses to certify state/local instructors, enabling long-term self-sustainment.

Objective 2.2: Enhance domestic law enforcement and first responder detection, interdiction, response, and reporting of CBRN threats Working with SLTT partners is an important part of the CWMD/CBRN Homeland Security Enterprise.

The Office enhances the ability of the United States to detect and prevent CBRN attacks in communities through grants such as Securing the Cities, training programs, exercises, and technical assistance, enhancing partner proficiency with existing and new capabilities and the skills to employ them as part of the national architecture. The Office will also provide direct support to national R/N detection capabilities through deployment of detection systems in support of surge operations, operating side by side with first responders where needed.

Outcome Statement The Key Actions completed under this objective will ensure that the CWMD Office improves domestic law enforcement’s and first responder’s ability to detect and respond to CBRN and health security threats through information, training, technical assistance, concepts, and capabilities. Through the CWMD Office’s efforts, SLTT partners will be able to quickly and efficiently integrate their efforts into federal systems when needed through well-practiced reporting capabilities and common CONOPS.

Sub-objective 2.2.1: Enhance domestic law enforcement and first responder detection and interdiction of CBRN threats

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Operations Support Directorate, Systems Support Directorate

• Support: Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Through STC, engage with additional partners in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Miami, and other cities to be designated in the future to identify and validate regional requirements to establish a SLTT R/N detection architecture and capability and develop operations and deployment plans and protocols.

• Through STC, provide and maintain detection equipment (e.g., PRDs and radioisotope identification devices, proficiency training, exercise support, operational and technical subject matter expertise, and programmatic support for eligible jurisdictions).

• Through STC, initiate long-term sustainment of legacy cities, New York/New Jersey, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and the National Capital Region, and plan for such sustainment for the new cities

• Develop, acquire, and deploy to FSLLT operational partners advanced backpack R/N detectors and mobile systems using alternative neutron detection technology.

• Support surge operations, incident response, National Special Security Events (NSSEs), and other special events through targeted risk assessment and augmenting integrated CBRN field detection missions in known criminal interdiction pathways, including through use of Mobile Detection Deployment Program assets.

• Align detection technology, symptom recognition, and information-sharing sources and strategies to quickly recognize use of CBRN and inform response partners.

• Conduct exercises and operational training events that emphasize current, emerging, and forecasted threats to validate the efficacy of detection solutions delivered to FSLTT operational partners.

• Through FAVD, plan and execute DHS Food, Agriculture, and Veterinary Defense regional exercises and training events that assess cross-sector response and reporting during events.

• Achieve effective information sharing between the law enforcement and medical/public health communities, including through common operational pictures where appropriate.

Sub-objective 2.2.2: Enhance domestic law enforcement and first responder response to and reporting of CBRN threats

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Operations Support Directorate

• Support: Systems Support Directorate, Information Analysis Directorate

Key Actions

• Develop and formalize, including through development of information-sharing agreements and

CONOPS, information transfer processes for CBRN detectors from SLTT governments and the accompanying technology needs to share data on day-to-day CBRN events as well as during naturally occurring biological incidents

• Through STC, assist applicable jurisdictions in developing R/N detection reporting capability and establish information connectivity to support alarm adjudication.

• Conduct a training program for partners that explicitly links response and reporting doctrine to operational activities and shares best practices from the analysis of decisions during CBRN events.

• Assist SLTT governments in developing capability and capacity to prevent and manage hazardous chemical exposures through protective actions such as evacuation, shelter-in-place, offensive hazmat operations, and decontamination.

• Assist community partners to become better reporters and consumers of chemical-related suspicious activity, threat information, and risk assessments, including how to implement actionable information.

• Provide enhanced situational awareness to law enforcement and first responders through the CWMD common operational picture; incorporate reporting of local CBRN threats into broader situational awareness tools to enhance local and regional incident response.

Objective 2.3: Improve national biodefense and biosurveillance Biodefense and biosurveillance are fundamentally whole-of-community efforts, relying on national public health systems, disease surveillance, and food and agricultural defense to protect the United States from the most dangerous biothreats. Through our National Biosurveillance Integration Center, the Office rapidly identifies, characterizes, localizes, and tracks biological events of national concern and ensures our partners have the information they need to prepare and respond. The Office will improve biodetection systems fielded nationwide, expanding the detection of potential threat agents and facilitating timely, localized response by first responders within the community. Our systems will provide early warning of bioterrorism and other threats while concurrently building on the capability of operational partners through modeling, subject-matter reach-back, and rapidly deployable special event support.

Outcome Statement The Key Actions completed under this objective will ensure that the CWMD Office enhances the quality and timeliness of biosurveillance data collection, integration, analysis, and dissemination across a range of federal, state, local, and international public health, agriculture, medical care, environmental monitoring, wildlife surveillance, commerce, mail, transportation, defense, and response agencies. The CWMD Office will enhance, primarily through BioWatch and the National Biosurveillance Integration Center, the Nation’s biodefense capabilities by improving the effectiveness of the platforms that provide biosurveillance data, analytics, and expertise to DHS operators and SLTT first responders.

Sub-objective 2.3.1: Enhance capabilities to rapidly collect and disseminate biologically based threat information

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Information Analysis Directorate

• Support: Operations Support Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

• Provide FSLTT partners with biosurveillance tools that enable early warning of anomalous events in their communities.

• Through NBIC, increase capability to rapidly collect and integrate biosurveillance data to accelerate data analysis; reduce the time it takes for systems users to identify relevant data and perform meaningful analysis.

• Stand up an NBIC working group and advisory board to oversee implementation of the DHS Strategy for Integrated Biosurveillance.

• Establish the Biosurveillance Ecosystem as an operational cloud-based IT system to house applications in support of biosurveillance activities, including the BioFeeds program.

• Enhance stakeholder interoperability and coordination by communicating through the Integrated Consortium of Laboratory Networks (ICLN), convening lab forums to share information and adopting best practices and technologies from the Interagency Board for Emergency Response and Preparedness and BioAlliance.

• Ensure effective integration of DHS’s Emergency Medical Services into the larger biosurveillance and One Health framework.

Sub-objective 2.3.2: Enhance national environmental bioaerosol technical detection capabilities

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Systems Support Directorate, Operations Support Directorate

• Support: Information Analysis Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Develop a resource-constrained biodetection roadmap that directs integrating technologies under development and evaluation into the current BioWatch system and outlines a plan for achieving the desired future state as outlined in the biodetection architecture.

• Engage stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve the speed and efficiency of BioWatch activities and identify areas for collection expansion.

• Analyze the collection and processing of samples and recommend changes to save time, effort, or funding in these processes.

• Engage BioWatch stakeholders through tailored resources, the BioWatch Advisory Committee, the BioWatch National Conference Call, and assessments of critical communication needs and gaps.

• Manage BioWatch collector siting, deployment, and sustainment, as well as filter holder assembly collection and delivery to designated state and local laboratories for analysis.

• Develop, deploy, field test, and sustain technologies to new areas and environments within existing jurisdictions; communicate new technology requirements and CONOPS to private sector and federal partners.

Sub-objective 2.3.3: Enhance capabilities to identify and assess biological threats

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Systems Support Directorate

• Support: Operations Support Directorate, Information Analysis Directorate, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Key Actions

• Deploy technology, including advanced detection algorithms, and integrate contextual data that enhances information available following a detection to better determine if it is a concern or of environmental origin.

• Develop and maintain program guidance and incident planning assistance for biological incident response.

• Provide training and exercises for biological incident response to SLTT jurisdictions and operational partners.

• Through FAVD and under the One Health construct, improve relationships and data exchanges with federal partners such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture to promote early identification of current and emerging infectious and zoonotic diseases.

Goal 3: Synchronize homeland counter-WMD and health security planning and execution The Office plays a central role in the counter-WMD and health security decision making at the national level. Through the CWMD A/S and Chief Medical Officer, the Office serves as the primary source of subject matter expertise for departmental senior leaders on WMD, CBRN, and health security topics, and represents the Department on these issues at the White House and, through reports and assessments, with Congress. The Office will lead strategy and plans development for the homeland CWMD enterprise, forming the foundation upon which requirements are determined and capabilities are developed and exercised.

Objective 3.1: Lead policy and strategy formulation and coordination for DHS on WMD and health-security-related topics The Office leads DHS WMD, CBRN, and health security policy and strategy formulation and coordination.

Through engagement with DHS Components, senior leaders, and the broader homeland CWMD enterprise, the Office will ensure our equities are reflected in national policy and strategy documents and will initiate and update the foundational documents that form the basis for long-term departmental and national CWMD and health security planning processes.

Outcome Statement The Key Actions completed under this objective will ensure that the CWMD Office effectively coordinates CWMD and health security activities across DHS Components and represents and coordinates DHS CWMD and health security equities in the interagency. By developing strategies and policies within DHS on CWMD and health security and participating in the development of federal policies and strategies, DHS will be well integrated internally and within the U.S. Government to prevent, protect, and prepare for the use of WMD in the United States and to respond to health security incidents.

Sub-objective 3.1.1: Coordinate DHS CWMD and health security policy and strategy engagements with National Security Council (NSC) Policy Coordination Committees, key leaders, and strategic partners

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Strategy Plans and Policy

• Support: All other Directorates and the Front Office

Key Actions

• Attend and represent DHS equities in all National Security Council WMD Directorate and

WMD-relevant Resilience Directorate meetings, bringing DHS Component representatives as appropriate for the topic under discussion.

• Represent CWMD equities in development of national-level CWMD policy efforts at interagency meetings.

• Represent DHS equities at interagency leadership and action officer forums relevant to WMD and health security issues.

• Lead coordination of the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA); lead the GNDA Interagency Working Group.

• Provide support to centralized stewardship, planning, assessment, gap analysis, improvement, and integration for National Technical Nuclear Forensics (NTNF) capabilities.

Sub-objective 3.1.2: Collaboratively develop operational partners’ CWMD and health-security-related policies and strategies to support interoperability and coordination

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Strategy, Plans, and Policy

• Support: All other Directorates and the Front Office

Key Actions

• Support development of national-level CBRN strategies as required by law and policy, including:

• Development and publication of an interagency GNDA Strategy by September 30, 2020.

• Development and publication of an interagency Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Strategic Plan by September 30, 2020.

• Coordinate with international partners on strategy development with the goal of increased long-term interoperability.

• Establish a program office to provide oversight and integration of DHS’s activities related to veterinary public health, food defense, and agricultural security and to coordinate with other FSLTT and private stakeholders in support of the FAVD mission.

• Conduct Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Industry Reviews for CBRN, medical, and FAVD equities.

• Develop and support national-level exercises that inform strategy and policy development.

Sub-objective 3.1.3: Lead development and coordination of CWMD Office reporting requirements to Congress and other external stakeholders to ensure implementation of policies and strategies

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead: Strategy, Plans, and Policy

Key Actions

• Deliver the DHS Biodefense Strategy Implementation Plan Annual Report.

• Deliver the interagency GNDA Annual Report and Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Annual Report as well as the DHS CBRN Annual Report to Congress.

• Report the CWMD Office’s Government Performance and Results Act measures.

• Provide reports to CWMD Office leadership and DHS Office of Policy on implementation of DHS strategies and implementation plans.

• Participate in DHS Strategic Review.

• Provide oversight and integration of the Department’s activities related to veterinary public health, food defense, and agricultural security, including through the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9-required annual assessment and report on DHS Food, Agriculture, and Veterinary Defense-related activities.

• Complete the biennial ICLN reporting requirement from the Food Safety Modernization Act (P.L. 111-353, § 203).

Objective 3.2: Integrate strategic and operational planning related to WMD and health security issues with DHS Components, DHS Joint Task Forces, and interagency partners As an operational support Component, the Office serves at the intersection of headquarters, intelligence, and field operations. Through operational planning support, we will leverage this unique vantage point to help lead and coordinate the development of plans to ensure DHS Components and other operational partners have the situational awareness needed to ensure their resources are postured against the current threat picture. Integrating planning across mission areas within DHS and with interagency partners ensures coordination with interagency partners and optimal deployment of limited resources and provides the basis for exercising and assessing operational effectiveness.

Outcome Statement The Key Actions completed under this objective will ensure that the CWMD Office effectively conducts strategic and deliberate planning that spans DHS Components to create plans that address the full range of WMD threats and health…