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FY10 State Agency State Homeland Security Grant Form


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The Texas Homeland Security Strategic Plan
FY 2010 HSGP Guidance
Target Capabilities List
Responder Knowledge Base (RKB) Approved Equipment List (AEL)

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What capability gap will this proposal address?
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  • Goal 1.  Prevent terrorist attacks in Texas and prevent criminal enterprises from operating successfully in Texas.
    • Objective 1.1.  Expand and Enhance the Statewide Intelligence Capability that Reduces the Threat of Terrorism and Criminal Enterprises.
      • Priority Action 1.1.1.  Establish and employ the Texas Fusion Center Policy Council to enhance and manage the statewide intelligence capability, to include threat identification and prioritization, requirements development and management, collection, distributed analytical production, and product dissemination.
      • Priority Action 1.1.2.  Expand and enhance multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional fusion capabilities throughout the state.
      • Priority Action 1.1.3.  Employ the Texas Fusion Center and regional fusion centers to integrate homeland security-related information and intelligence across all agencies, jurisdictions and disciplines in Texas.
      • Priority Action 1.1.4.  Fully leverage existing intelligence components in the state with a distributed network of intelligence networks.
      • Priority Action 1.1.5.  Enlist the homeland security community, including health services, agriculture, animal health, private sector, and other critical infrastructure stakeholders, as collectors and consumers of intelligence.
      • Priority Action 1.1.6.  Implement the Texas Information Technology Plan.
      • Priority Action 1.1.7.  Ensure local law enforcement agencies in Texas have onsite access to all critical Texas homeland security information systems.
    • Objective 1.1.  Expand and Enhance the Statewide Intelligence Capability that Reduces the Threat of Terrorism and Violent Criminal Organizations.
      • Priority Action 1.1.1.  Establish and employ the Texas Fusion Center Policy Council to enhance and manage the statewide intelligence capability, to include threat identification and prioritization, requirements development and management, collection, distributed analytical production, and product dissemination.
      • Priority Action 1.1.2.  Expand and enhance multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional fusion capabilities throughout the state.
      • Priority Action 1.1.3.  Employ the Texas Fusion Center and regional fusion centers to integrate homeland security-related information and intelligence across all agencies, jurisdictions and disciplines in Texas.
      • Priority Action 1.1.4.  Fully leverage existing intelligence components in the state with a distributed network of intelligence networks.
      • Priority Action 1.1.5.  Enlist the homeland security community, including health services, agriculture, animal health, private sector, and other critical infrastructure stakeholders, as collectors and consumers of intelligence.
      • Priority Action 1.1.6.  Implement the Texas Information Technology Plan.
      • Priority Action 1.1.7.  Ensure local law enforcement agencies in Texas have onsite access to all critical Texas homeland security information systems.
    • Objective 1.2.  Ensure a Robust Investigative Capability to Address Terrorism and Criminal Enterprises.
      • Priority Action 1.2.1.  Expand and enhance the state’s integrated, multi-agency counterterrorism investigative capabilities that address: (1) Known or suspected terrorist organizations, cells, actors, and other related threats, (2) Suspicious activities, (3) Groups and networks
      • Priority Action 1.2.2.  Expand and enhance the network of human sources that can provide detailed and relevant information on known or suspected terrorist organizations and criminal enterprises that provide direct material support to terrorist organizations and criminal enterprises indirectly supporting terrorists.
      • Priority Action 1.2.3.  Update the statewide crime fighting, counterterrorism and intelligence training programs for law enforcement and other homeland security-related personnel to reflect threat adaptations.
      • Priority Action 1.2.4.  Establish and employ an information technology capability to integrate data and monitor for loss of control of dangerous substances or devices, and for the purchase of dangerous quantities of materials and components that can be used to build explosive devices or other deadly instruments. The system must also have the capability to rapidly alert officials to such losses or purchases.
    • Objective 1.3.  Prevent Terrorists and Criminal Enterprises from Exploiting Texas’ International Borders, Including Land, Air, and Sea.
      • Priority Action 1.3.1.  Increase local and state patrols of the border region to increase security, particularly between the ports-of-entry.
      • Priority Action 1.3.2.  Support integrated multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional operations and investigations to address criminal enterprises operating in the Texas border region.
      • Priority Action 1.3.3.  Integrate technology to the maximum extent to assist in monitoring the border, particularly in remote areas.
    • Objective 1.4.  Increase Public Awareness and Reporting of Suspicious Activities Related to Criminal Activity and Terrorism, with Emphasis on Drug Trafficking, Human Trafficking and Smuggling, and WME- and IED-Related Activities.
      • Priority Action 1.4.1.  Work with the local law enforcement community to identify priority messages for a targeted public awareness campaign that focuses on recognizing and reporting suspicious activities related to terrorism and organized crime.
      • Priority Action 1.4.2.  Support regional and local strategies to increase terror- and crime-related public awareness through media outlets and citizen groups.
      • Priority Action 1.4.3.  Increase citizen and private enterprise participation in vigilance programs.
  • Goal 2.  Reduce Vulnerability to Natural Disasters, Criminal and Terrorist Attacks and Catastrophic Events.
    • Objective 2.1.  Reduce Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures and Key Resources in Texas.
      • Priority Action 2.1.1.  Expand and enhance the ability to identify, validate, and update data on all CI/KR in Texas with federal, state, local and private sector partners.
      • Priority Action 2.1.2.  Maintain and update the Texas CI/KR information database and improve database accessibility by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
      • Priority Action 2.1.3.  Expand and upgrade the integrated program used to assess and prioritize the vulnerabilities of each CI/KR site in Texas.
      • Priority Action 2.1.4.  Work closely with DHS, local governments, and industry to implement the Buffer Zone Protection Program to develop plans to protect eligible CI/KR, in order of priority, and track program implementation.
      • Priority Action 2.1.5.  Ensure that CI/KR managers, workers, and nearby citizens – public and private – are provided training on recognizing and reporting incidents that may indicate terrorist activity.
      • Priority Action 2.1.6.  Ensure CI/KRs throughout the state receive appropriate threat information.
      • Priority Action 2.1.7.  Ensure that all suspicious activities and threats related to CI/KRs are reported through the statewide intelligence structure and are appropriately addressed.
      • Priority Action 2.1.8.  Expand and enhance the statewide cyber security program that tests and protects local and state IT systems from penetration and attack.
      • Priority Action 2.1.9.  Develop and rehearse contingency plans to mitigate the effects and consequences of a natural disaster, criminal or terrorist attack or catastrophic event.
    • Objective 2.2.  Reduce Risk from CBRNE Disasters.
      • Priority Action 2.2.1.  Enhance the statewide network for monitoring biological incidents by assessing current gaps, strategically improving the BioWatch program throughout the state, and conducting regular network tests.
      • Priority Action 2.2.2.  Integrate and expand statewide human and animal health surveillance capabilities in order to detect outbreaks and occurrences in the public health, veterinary or agricultural sectors at the earliest point, whether naturally occurring or manmade; i.e., either accidental or related to crime or terrorism.
      • Priority Action 2.2.3.  Ensure proper detection, inspection and controls of radiological, chemical, and biological materials in Texas.
      • Priority Action 2.2.4.  Enhance statewide multi-agency early detection, confirmation, response and recovery capabilities for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear events.
      • Priority Action 2.2.5.  Ensure adequate laboratory and analytical capacity for biological or chemical incidents that affect people, crops, and animal agriculture.
    • Objective 2.3.  Reduce Vulnerability to Natural and Manmade Threats to the Agriculture Industry.
      • Priority Action 2.3.1.  Expand and enhance statewide pest, pesticide, agricultural disease, and food contamination monitoring capabilities.
      • Priority Action 2.3.2.  Enhance and upgrade the statewide threat reporting system for threats against the agriculture industry.
      • Priority Action 2.3.3.  Ensure sufficient laboratories and specialized facilities to analyze pest and disease samples.
      • Priority Action 2.3.4.  Expand the network of permanent road stations throughout the state used to minimize the artificial introduction of plant and animal pests and diseases.
      • Priority Action 2.3.5.  Ensure sufficient training for all disease detection stakeholders.
    • Objective 2.4.  Enhance the Safety of Schools in Texas.
      • Priority Action 2.4.1.  Ensure the availability of enhanced web-based tools to conduct vulnerability self-assessments and meet security audit requirements.
      • Priority Action 2.4.2.  Ensure the availability of enhanced web-based emergency operations planning tools to develop school safety and emergency response plans.
      • Priority Action 2.4.3.  Ensure the availability of train-the-trainer programs to educate school officials on all aspects of security-related school safety.
      • Priority Action 2.4.4.  Ensure schools participate in drills and all-hazards exercises.
      • Priority Action 2.4.5.  Incorporate and implement Citizen Corps programs through training and outreach in schools to emphasize student and staff preparedness and safety.
    • Objective 2.5.  Use Mitigation Programs to Reduce the Threats Natural Disasters Pose to People and Property.
      • Priority Action 2.5.1.  Upgrade the multi-year statewide hazard vulnerability assessment process.
      • Priority Action 2.5.2.  Upgrade the system used to update state mitigation strategies based on vulnerability assessments across all jurisdictions.
      • Priority Action 2.5.3.  Ensure jurisdictions and agencies complete hazard mitigation plans and implement local-level mitigation projects.
      • Priority Action 2.5.4.  Ensure that private/commercial stakeholders are integrated into agency hazard mitigation plans.
    • Objective 2.6.  Ensure the Sec
      • Priority Action 2.6.1.  Enhance security features in state driver licenses and identification cards to include the use of biometrics.
      • Priority Action 2.6.2.  Ensure sufficient investigative capabilities to address duplicate applications for driver licenses and other identification cards.
  • Goal 3.  Prepare to Minimize Damage Through Rapid, Decisive Response and Quickly Recover from Terrorist Attacks and Other Disasters.
    • Objective 3.1.  Achieve Statewide Communications Interoperability in Texas.
      • Priority Action 3.1.1.  Expand the statewide network of radio systems; achieve the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 (P25) level of interoperability for Texas public safety agencies by January 1, 2015.
      • Priority Action 3.1.2.  Ensure all future radio system acquisitions are interoperable and in compliance with the Statewide Communication Interoperability Plan and the P25 suite of standards.
      • Priority Action 3.1.3.  Ensure redundant communications capabilities in the event of a disaster.
    • Objective 3.2.  Continually Improve the Ability to Employ the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as the Statewide Standard Incident Command System for Addressing all Hazards.
      • Priority Action 3.2.1.  Continually improve the ability to use NIMS throughout the state by providing guidance, coordination and training opportunities to state agencies and regional and local jurisdictions.
      • Priority Action 3.2.2.  Continually improve proficiency in using the incident management software employed in all incident command centers – state, regional, and local.
    • Objective 3.3.  Maximize Response Capabilities by Expanding the Statewide Regional Response and Mutual Aid Network.
      • Priority Action 3.3.1.  Ensure the routine, periodic review and update of all mutual aid agreements throughout Texas to expand and upgrade integrated, interoperable, cooperative emergency response among jurisdictions statewide.
      • Priority Action 3.3.2.  Manage statewide data on first responder equipment and specialized teams through TxMAP and other supporting information sharing systems. Ensure first responders and leaders statewide are trained to input and access essential TxMAP information.
      • Priority Action 3.3.3.  Conduct periodic reviews of state, regional and local emergency plans to ensure they are updated, meet state emergency planning standards, and address all hazards including WME and IEDs.
      • Priority Action 3.3.4.  Expand the use of trained and vetted volunteers for state, regional, and local homeland security and response activities. Incorporate citizens and corporations into the volunteer scheme.
    • Objective 3.4.  Amplify Public Health Community Capabilities to Support Multi-Agency and Multi-Jurisdictional Response and Recovery Efforts for all Hazards, Including CBRNE Events.
      • Priority Action 3.4.1.  Improve the ability of all local and regional medical facilities to implement NIMS and the standardized Incident Command System (ICS), and ensure personnel are fully trained.
      • Priority Action 3.4.2.  Continue to improve the state's ability to ensure mass prophylaxis and medical countermeasure distribution and dispensing capabilities.
      • Priority Action 3.4.3.  Assess medical surge capabilities statewide, and build capabilities in a prioritized manner based on risk.
      • Priority Action 3.4.4.  Ensure that decontamination assets are accessible throughout the state and provide the appropriate capacity.
    • Objective 3.5.  Integrate Homeland Security Training across all Agencies, Jurisdictions and Disciplines.
      • Priority Action 3.5.1.  Ensure adequate homeland security training is made available to, and completed by all first responders and key stakeholders throughout the state.
      • Priority Action 3.5.2.  Ensure adequate homeland security training is available to and completed by leaders with homeland security responsibilities throughout the state.
      • Priority Action 3.5.3.  Routinely assess homeland security training requirements within the state, and update implementation strategies to address shortfalls.
      • Priority Action 3.5.4.  Ensure all training courses, where appropriate, address the requirements of the special needs population.
    • Objective 3.6.  Fully Integrate Homeland Security Exercises Across all Jurisdictions and Disciplines, to Include Exercises Related to the National Planning Scenarios, Medical Surge and Mass Prophylaxis, and Hurricane Evacuation.
      • Priority Action 3.6.1.  Use homeland security exercises planned and conducted throughout the state as a vehicle to provide an accurate assessment of homeland security needs within each region.
      • Priority Action 3.6.2.  Use state guidelines to monitor and evaluate homeland security exercises in Texas to ensure they are aligned with applicable national planning guidance.
      • Priority Action 3.6.3.  Ensure all homeland security functions are addressed and each region of the state is represented in the exercise program.
      • Priority Action 3.6.4.  Perform a multi-disciplinary evaluation of ways to improve urban area evacuations in Texas that addresses all aspects of evacuation, with emphasis on traffic flow, motorist fuel supply, and vehicle breakdown.
    • Objective 3.7.  Ensure Updated and Validated Emergency Plans are in Place at Agencies that Provide Vital Public Services – Include Public and Private Stakeholders.
      • Priority Action 3.7.1.  Continually review, update, and upgrade emergency and disaster-related plans statewide.
      • Priority Action 3.7.2.  Continually review, update, and upgrade the processes used to identify regional and local agencies that should maintain a current Continuity of Operations (COOP) plan, and help validate the plans.
      • Priority Action 3.7.3.  Ensure that all critical facilities, including water and sewage systems, publicly-owned hospitals, law enforcement headquarters, and government offices have alternate sources of energy in the event power lines are damaged or destroyed.
    • Objective 3.8.  Increase Citizen Participation in Statewide Preparedness Efforts.
      • Priority Action 3.8.1.  Expand the Texas Citizen Corps by capitalizing on Citizen Corps Councils in each of the state’s 24 regional Councils of Government (COGs).
      • Priority Action 3.8.2.  Expand, enhance, and increase use of media and communications campaigns to ensure public awareness of community preparedness for all hazards.
      • Priority Action 3.8.3.  Expand, enhance, and increase use of media and communications campaigns to increase participation in the Texas Citizen Corps.
      • Priority Action 3.8.4.  Conduct regional train-the-trainer classes to expand the capabilities of Citizen Corps and Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs).
      • Priority Action 3.8.5.  Support the development and implementation of a coordinated statewide volunteer management strategy that accounts for all volunteer programs that support homeland security and emergency management, including a coordinated statewide database available to appropriate agents.
    • Objective 3.9.  Maintain Effective Ways to Alert Local Leaders and the Public About All Hazards in Their Communities.
      • Priority Action 3.9.1.  Leverage the 2-1-1 information and referral system to provide hazard and emergency information to the public.
      • Priority Action 3.9.2.  Ensure Texans with special needs receive emergency information, and facilities that care for individuals with special needs maintain evacuation and transportation plans.
      • Priority Action 3.9.3.  Develop innovative means of using the public communication system to assist in public alert and information sharing for all hazards.
 
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