Executive Branch
Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This Public Health
Emergency Preparedness and Response Initiative Web site from CDC
includes facts, resources, and emergency contacts on biological, chemical,
and radiological terrorism, with background on the National Pharmaceutical
Stockpile Program. It also includes recent news, information, and recommendations
from CDC on its community health protection initiatives
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/
Department of
Defense- Homeland Security
This Department
of Defense (DOD) primary Web site for homeland security presents comprehensive
information including reports, news, congressional testimony, and links
focused on DOD's domestic role in counterterrorism.
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/homeland/index.html
The Department of Homeland
Security
The DHS
site offers a wide variety of information including news and press releases,
organizational information, and background on department activites and programs
in such areas as threats and protection, border security and research and technology.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic
The Department of Homeland Security. ready.gov
This site is devoted to assisting citizens to be prepared for a variety
of emergenct scenarios.
http://www.ready.gov
Department of Justice Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP)
This Department of Justice
Web site provides training, technical, and policy information resources to state
and local first responders to enhance their capacity to cope with attacks that
use weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/odp/
White House
Home Page for Homeland Security
This is the primary
White House Web site on homeland security and includes links to the major
presidential statements, reports, and documents. It also includes the current
color-coded terrorism threat status and a link that discusses the color
levels under the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/
Legislative Branch
House Select
Committee on Homeland Security
This Web site
of the House committee established to guide and oversee its major legislation,
H.R. 5005, to create a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS), features
testimony transcripts, news, and hearings and event scheduling on the proposed
department.
http://www.hsc.house.gov/
General Accounting
Office (GAO) Homeland Security
This GAO page
lists its reports related to homeland security
http://www.gao.gov/homelandsecurity.html
Other Organizations
American Red
Cross Homeland Security Advisory System
Provides recommendations
for individuals, families, and businesses on how to prepare for a community
terrorism- related disaster.
http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/beprepared/hsas.html
ANSER Homeland
Security
This is a research
organization providing full-text links to government documents, reports,
commission studies, and background material via a virtual library on terrorism
and homeland or domestic defense issues. Another related Web site provided
by ANSER is a suggested reading list, including recent counter-terrorism
documents related to the attack on America.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/
Brookings Institution
Homeland Security
Web page links to analysis, information, and its major studies, including
"Assessing the Department of Homeland Security," giving recommendations
on forming the new DHS, and "Protecting the American Homeland, A Preliminary
Analysis," an initial policy and budgetary report on homeland security
structures and resources.
http://www.brookings.org/dybdocroot/fp/projects/homeland/homeland.htm
Cato Institute
This site incorporates
research, commentary, congressional testinmony and a guide to upcoming
events.
http://www.cato.org/defense-studies/homeland-security.html
Center for Defense
Information
The CDI Terrorism
Project-Homeland Security page presents defense and policy-oriented information
and analysis, including their comprehensive report, Homeland Security:
a Competitive Strategies Approach
http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/homeland.cfm
Government Executive
GovExec.Com has
a page devoted to Homeland Security. This page contains links to recent
articles written by staff of GovExec or its affiliates. Links to other
sources can be found in the Resources section of the page, including Bush
administration homeland security documents, federal agencies involved in
homeland security, and think tanks and academic resources.
http://207.27.3.29/homeland/
Heritage Foundation
Heritage's Homeland
Defense Project with national security and homeland defense resources also
includes a reference to its major study, "Defending the American Homeland",
an analysis of policy and the application of resources for domestic security.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/Project.cfm
National Homeland Security
Knowledge Base
This is a collection of
links to a wide variety of sources of information both by topic and by source.
Particularly useful are the links to all federal and state agencies that play
a role in Homeland Security programs.
http://www.twotigersonline.com/resources.html
The National Conference of State Legislature: Protecting democracy
This site has information on a variety of homeland security issues of particualr
interest to the states and it tacks
legislative actions.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2001/usaattack.htm