For this paper, you are required to select a US federal government strategy document (but not one from the Week 3 reading) and compare and contrast it to a strategy document from another governmental entity.

Suggested length is 3-5 pages.

Your points will be allocated on the following criteria:

Offering creative and/or critical opinions;

Expressing yourself clearly and concisely;

Forming logical arguments and conclusions;

Identifying and discussing counter-arguments;

Grammar and compliance with APA (6th edition).

WE CANNOT USE THESE TOGETHER BELOW:

i. Prevent Terrorism and Enhance Security;

ii. Secure and Manage Our Borders;

iii. Enforce and Administer Our Immigration Laws;

iv. Safeguard and Secure Cyberspace;

v. Strengthen National Preparedness and Resilience

RunningHead: TP2 1

TP2 5

Topic 2

Bobby Poston

UMUC

HSMN 610

02/23/20

The United States government is usually focused to provide the necessary security and protection of all critical components of the infrastructure. These critical components infrastructure is the credited as the country’s backbone in relation to the economic status. It is thus important to protect these vital components of infrastructure from various vulnerabilities that may destroy the country’s economic base (Espinoza et. al., 2018). Protecting these critical components of the country entails a series of strategies installed by the national government under the Department of Homeland Security. To protect these critical infrastructural structures, the Department of Homeland Security comes up with various strategies that serve to offer protection for different components.

America’s fundamental establishment zones give the foundation for our national security, organization, fiscal significance, and way of life. Additionally, their continued with steadfast quality, energy and quality make the sentiment of conviction and structure a critical bit of us national character and reason (Mergel, 2016). Essential establishments layout our regular day to day existences and enable us to value one of the most raised overall lifestyles on earth. The workplaces, structures, and limits that include our fundamental systems are outstandingly perplexing and complex. They join HR and physical and advanced structures that collaborate in structures that are significantly related. They furthermore contain key center points that are fundamental to the action of the essential systems in which they work.

In protecting the key components of the country’s infrastructure, various entities are in coordination to make this task effective (Conyers & Cummings, 2017, February). The various entities include agencies that operate at the national level and those that operate under federal governments. Each of these agencies has a strategy that usually guides them in the protection of the infrastructure identified. The federal agencies have their own role in the state level though they work in harmony with the national government agencies. State and nearby governments, similar to the government, ought to distinguish and secure the basic foundations and key resources they claim and work inside their locales. The states ought to likewise cause coordination of defensive and crisis reaction exercises and asset support among nearby purviews and areas in a close joint effort with assigned government lead offices and organizations.

States should additionally encourage facilitated arranging and readiness for basic framework also, key resource assurance, applying brought together criteria for deciding criticality, organizing security speculations, and practicing readiness inside their wards. States ought to likewise go about as conductors for demands for government help when the current danger surpasses the capacities of nearby locales and private substances inside those wards. At long last, states ought to encourage the trading of applicable security data and danger cautions down to the nearby level. State and nearby governments look to the administrative government for coordination, backing, and assets when national necessities surpass nearby capacities. Securing basic frameworks and key resources will require close and broad collaboration among every one of the three degrees of government.

To deal with various security concerns, the executive branch of the government comes up with a National Security Strategy document that outlines the key security concerns of the country and how the nation is planning to address them. These strategies offer different methods of protecting various infrastructural components and are usually geared towards the agencies that are concerned with the security of those infrastructures. Similarly, the US federal government strategy document outlines the security concerns for various infrastructures in states. I will concentrate on two key strategy documents: the digital federal strategy document and the procurement federal strategy document.

The digital federal strategy document is a document that was developed by the federal government to provide guidance for U.S agencies that deal with the protection of digital systems and information from various vulnerabilities and risks. This document involves the outline on various aspects of digital systems (Klievink et. al., 2017, June). Key among the issues outlined in this document is the emphasis on the provision of information and services. This entails ensuring that each of the citizens in the United states has access to information. This calls for good administration strategies of various responsive designs that make users and website administrators work effectively.

Secondly, digital federal strategy document enables the public to create a better usage of federal data. In this, the federal government exposes the massive amounts of data in the best formatted way t the public to create a better leverage aimed at boosting their knowledge, improving their sense of reasoning as well as making valid decisions. The digital federal strategy document also outlines the procedures set in place to create content and use data in different ways. This helps citizens in understanding different sets of data and applying them where necessary to improve their lives.

The digital federal strategy document also gives guidelines to agencies on how to incorporate a shared platform approach in solving issues (Chanias, 2017). In this, several agencies are encouraged to come up with a platform that can enable them share information and base their coordination on such platform for effective service delivery. This has prompted the agencies to respond swiftly and effectively on various incidents that threaten the peace of the country. Lastly, the digital federal strategy document has led to the use of information-centric approach that allows various agencies to access information from a common center and come up with their own approach of solving a problem.

The procurement federal strategy document is a document that outlines the strategies and regulations that guide the procurement practices on the state. This document is more focused on the issues that may weaken the economy of the country without touching on the physical components of the economy that entail the different infrastructural elements in the States. Procurement is slightly connected to digital strategies in that it draws much from the information available to the systems to be effective. Among the issues outlined in this document are the stages of procurement (Decarolis et. al., 2018). These call for coordination of various agencies to make the whole process effective. The stages involve access to information, pre-qualification, tendering, contract administration and relationship management.

Procurement federal strategy document just like the digital federal strategy document gives guidelines and approaches to be used in carrying out a process. In the procurement federal strategy document, agencies are supposed to follow the guidelines and regulations provided to create an effective environment for a procuring process (Ruhland, Kaufmann, Ploder & Zinke, 2018). In addition to this, the first stage of procurement federal strategy document emphasizes on making information accessible to people just like the emphasis of digital federal strategy. Making information accessible to a large group of people must entail the use of digital technologies in the world today. This therefore means that the two documents borrow from each other to achieve their objectives.

References

Chanias, S. (2017). Mastering digital transformation: the path of a financial services provider towards a digital transformation strategy.

Conyers Jr, J., & Cummings, E. E. (2017, February). February 14, 2017 Letter to the US Attorney General of the Department of Justice Jefferson Sessions and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations James Comey. In United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.

Decarolis, F., Giuffrida, L. M., Iossa, E., Mollisi, V., & Spagnolo, G. (2018). Bureaucratic competence and procurement outcomes (No. w24201). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Espinoza, S. E., Brooks, J. S., & Araujo, J. (2018). Implementing an Information System Strategy: A Cost, Benefit, and Risk Analysis Framework for Evaluating Viable IT Alternatives in the US Federal Government. International journal of communications, network and systems sciences, 11(6), 105.

Klievink, B., Neuroni, A., Fraefel, M., & Zuiderwijk, A. (2017, June). Digital strategies in action: A comparative analysis of national data infrastructure development. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 129-138).

Mergel, I. (2016). Social media institutionalization in the US federal government. Government information quarterly, 33(1), 142-148.

Ruhland, S., Kaufmann, J., Ploder, M., & Zinke, G. (2018). Evaluation of the implementation of the Action Plan on Public Procurement Promoting Innovation in Austria Synthesis Report.