Private Sector Role in Homeland Security IP3

800 words APA with reference… Timely, quality and no plagiarism please

Library Research Assignment

Refer to the information from this week’s course materials regarding a power utility’s drafting of a priorities list.

In some cases, community leaders recognize those assets (often
privately owned and operated) as necessary to the security and
protection of a community. In these cases, leaders will often approach
private sector representatives and establish formal or informal
agreements with them. One example is when a city or state works with an
electric utility company to develop a closely-guarded list of priorities
for who will receive electricity in the event of power failures,
outages, or degradation. These lists may include governmental offices,
hospitals, grocery stores, or individuals relying on oxygen. Meanwhile, a
military installation within a community may have coordinated
priorities of its own with the utility. 

Surplus power generated from this installation may be sent out for
distribution by the power company to support critical needs in the
community or in a neighboring community. In this example, the
partnership is multiway: The utility prioritizes power to both the city
and the military base, and they potentially send surplus or their own
power back to the utility for distribution to either or both of
them. Remember that power can be generated by many means, including
coal-burning, hydroelectric, induction, nuclear, solar, and wind. These
forms may be harnessed at even the individual level with surplus energy
sold “back.”

You are a staff officer who works in the city of Solace, Wyoming’s
emergency management planning division. You have been assigned to draft a
memorandum that both informs and advises the city’s emergency manager,
city council members, and mayor about prioritizing recipients for
electric power provision and restoration. To effectively do this, you
need to understand and simplify for the city’s leaders the factors that
the local electric company, Elco Power, takes into account in
prioritizing these two separate functions—provision and restoration of
power.

Assignment Guidelines

Complete the following:

• Address the following in 800–1,000 words by drafting a
  memorandum for the city’s leaders listed above; define any terms that
  you will use with which they may be unfamiliar:
  • Describe what
    form of generation Elco Power uses to provide power to customers and the
    community. Give a brief background as to how dependent the community is
    upon this company.
  • Name and describe at least 3 threats that are considered the most significant in Elco Power’s estimation.
    • For each threat, describe the types of crises that might result and how these would likely impact the city of Solace. 
    • For each threat, describe fully Elco Power’s and the community’s ability to do the following:
      • Prevent the threat or likely crisis
      • Prepare for the threat or likely crisis
      • Withstand the crisis resulting from the threat
      • Mitigate the threat or resulting crisis
      • Manage the consequences of the crisis resulting from the threat
  • Research
    and explain who and why specific individuals or organizations would
    most likely be on Elco’s priority list for power provision during an
    outage. Include a summary of the company’s rationale for its priorities
    in the memorandum.
  • Research and explain who and why specific
    individuals or organizations would most likely be on Elco’s priority
    list for power restoration during an outage. Include a summary of the
    company’s rationale for its priorities in the memorandum.
  • Detail
    your recommendations for the city as to what modifications, if any, the
    city should request from Elco Power in each of its priority lists. If
    you advise the city to wholly adopt Elco’s lists, explain your reasoning
    in full. 

Although this scenario uses a
notional power company, you should research the parameters that are used
by an actual company to make decisions regarding these activities. The
library, Internet, and actual power company personnel are just a few of
the sources that you might consider. 

Although an administrative memorandum would not normally include
citations, it may well list references. For your assignment, inject this
academic element into your product; any resources that are used must be
properly cited using APA style. Any special or technical information
that is provided that is not referenced will be questioned. The
recommendations should be your own, but may be based on industry or
specific resources that you consult that, again, should be appropriately
cited. The memorandum should be well organized and flawlessly executed.

	DHS: Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Information on the 16 Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) sectors.
	Matchmaking Portal Applies Private-Sector Expertise to Disaster Response An article regarding the use of private sector expertise for effective disaster response operations.
	National Infrastructure Protection Plan The National Infrastructure Protection Plan provides the unifying structure for the integration of a wide range of efforts for the enhanced protection and resiliency of the nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) into a single national program.
	Student CIP Project Drives Legislation This is an article on how a student Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) project from a course at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) was used to influence legislation regarding critical infrastructure.
	U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO): Critical Infrastructure In the search field, search for critical infrastructure. The results will consist of GAO reports and documentation that address various areas of U.S. critical infrastructure.

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