United States Department of Homeland Security
A new U.S. Department of Homeland Security was proposed by President George W. Bush in 2002. This was called the largest government reorganization in 50 years (since the U.S. Department of Defense was created. It would assume a number of government functions presently in other departments, though its final form is still being debated by Congress as of June 2002. (update as resolved). Debate currently centers on whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency should be incorporated in part or in whole. It would supersede, but not replace the Office of Homeland Security, which would retain an advisory role.
The Department of Homeland Security would have an organizational structure with four divisions, incorporating many existing federal function (original parent agency in parentheses):
* Border and Transportation Security
- United States Customs Service (Department of Treasury),
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (Department of Justice),
- Border Patrol (Department of Justice),
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Department of Agriculture),
- Transportation Security Administration (Department of Transportation),
- Federal Protective Service (General Services Administration),
- U.S. Coast Guard (Department of Transportation),
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
* Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (currently part of the Department of Energy)
- Plum Island Animal Disease Center (Department of Agriculture).
* Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection.
- National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (currently part of the Department of Energy).
- Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (currently part of the Department of Commerce)
- National Infrastructure Protection Center (FBI).
- Federal Computer Incident Response Center (General Services Administration)
- National Communications System (Department of Defense)