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*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS THE FINAL ASSIGNMENT FOR THE CLASS! ALSO, I AM ON PACIFIC STANDARD TIME*
The tasks related to securing the homeland and its critical infrastructure are shared among many organizations. Several universities participate in research projects in conjunction with the DHS. Additionally, other departments in the government have jurisdiction over certain elements of the critical infrastructure.
- Describe two academic institutions helping to conduct research to protect the homeland.
- Evaluate in detail one specific example of a research project conducted by each institution to protect the homeland. Be sure to explain the objectives of each project.
- Analyze the outcomes, conclusions, and recommendations of each research project? Were these projects successful?
- Identify opportunities for future research in the areas explored by these projects.
- Select one governmental department other than the DHS or DOD, such as the Department of Energy or the Department of Agriculture. Discuss the department’s responsibilities concerning protection of critical infrastructure. Keep in mind that the term “critical infrastructure” refers to certain specific systems.
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Submit your responses in a 7 page Microsoft Word document
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Institution Affiliation
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Section 1
The Homeland Security Centers of Excellence unites top specialists and scientists to
direct multidisciplinary study and training for homeland security resolutions. These areas are
approved by Congress and picked by the Science and Innovation Directorate of the Department
via a reasonable choice procedure (Bishop, 2009). Each area is managed by a higher learning
institution in partnership with accomplices from different establishments, offices, labs, think
tanks, and private firms. The Borders, Trade, and Immigration (BTI) Institution, which is under
the University of Houston, directs and advances research, creates inventive arrangements, and
gives training that improves the country's capacity to secure its fringes, encourage viable trade
and transportable, and guarantee the reliability of the migration framework.
Through a multifaceted group of countrywide and global specialists, this center conveys
transformational technological resolutions, data-based strategies, personnel improvement
prospects for the present Homeland Security Initiative, and trans-disciplinary training for the
future generation of homeland security specialists. The BTI focuses mostly on a cross-border
conveyance of individuals, cross-border conveyance of products, and Homeland Security
training and professional advancement.
The Crime Inquiries and Network Analysis Institution (CINA), is a multifaceted
scholarly association, which is under the George Mason University, which seeks after inventive
methodologies and resolutions for the advancement of crime system examination, forensics, and
insightful procedures. CINA scientists are creating apparatuses and technologies, in addition to
inventive instructional and training resolutions for the development of the country's capacities to
fight transnational crimes. CINA is a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence
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and is supported by the Science and Innovation Division of University Agendas. Nowadays,
complex crimes cut across physical and digital fringes in their quest for unlawful benefits,
harming societies all over the world, and unleashing ruin on social orders and nature. Such
exercises may appear as drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, illicit trade,
trafficking of body parts, ecological crimes, and many others
Section 2
Human Trafficking Hubs (Jan 2018 to Dec 2018)
This research was conducted in the George Mason University. It centers around three
noteworthy US human trafficking centers in various areas across the nation to comprehend the
transnational systems behind these crimes. Upon conclusion, the exploration gives an
exceptional and thoroughly comparative portrayal of the condition of human trafficking in
Texas, Florida and the regions north of Virginia that, through relative investigation could assist
legal authorities in recognizing and disrupting trafficking systems in these urban areas and
beyond.
Human trafficking is a business where criminals from various locales have unique trends
of operations depending on temporary workers, facilitators, and distribution chains for the
exploitation of humans. Because of the particularities of exchange crosswise over international
locales, there are distinctive modus operandi of traffic associations working from Latin America,
Asia, and different areas in America. In addition, the US has a substantial amount of exploitation
of household minors, an outcome that is highlighted within this research. Past studies propose
that the business frameworks of traffickers ...
