There was a need for educational programs for homeland security professionals who could prevent, plan for, respond to, and lead recovery efforts from terrorist events occurring within the U.S.
Candidates for this degree are local, state, tribal, federal, and military homeland security professionals and officials.
Participants study key homeland security topics and issues while building working relationships and networks across local, state, tribal, federal, and jurisdictional lines.
The Fusion Center Leaders Program (FCLP) is built upon guidance from the National Fusion Center Management Group comprising state and local partners, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Justice (DOJ).
This graduate level course examines key questions and issues facing fusion center leaders and their roles in homeland security, public safety, and the Information Sharing Environment (ISE).
The course is shaped to enhance critical thinking related to homeland security and public safety intelligence issues at the local, state, territorial, tribal and federal levels of government and in the private sector.
CHDS offers online, non-credit self-study courses in targeted homeland security topics to students, educators, and government officials.
Offered at no cost, these courses are designed for homeland defense and security professionals who want to learn more about their field and require the flexibility of self-paced instruction.
Resources are collected from a wide variety of sources and are selected and evaluated by a team of librarians and subject-matter specialists before inclusion in the library.
Access to most of the HSDL collection requires a password protected account or organizational access (military installations; federal, territorial, tribal, state and local government agencies; and research institutions (including a number of colleges and universities),[1] but the HSDL “On The Homefront” blog, a customized search of select homeland security blogs, a resource page for grants, a list of homeland security books and journal sources, and a Twitter alert for newly published reports, as well as other resources are open-source and available to the general public.