State of Arizona Homeland Security Strategy

              2004 HOMELAND 
SECURITY STRATEGY 
   
 
                  
  
Janet Napolitano 
Governor 
  
Frank Navarrete 
Director 
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY   2004 STATE HOMELAND SECURITY STRATEGY (SHSS) 
 
 
Purpose  The Arizona State Homeland Security Strategy (SHSS) provides strategic direction for 
enhancing regional capability and capacity to: prevent terrorist attacks within Arizona; 
reduce Arizona's vulnerability to terrorism and all other critical hazards; minimize the 
damage and recover from terrorism and all other critical hazards that affect the safety, 
well-being, and economic security of the citizens and residents of Arizona. 
 
The SHSS draws guiding principles and objectives from Securing Arizona, A Roadmap 
for Arizona Homeland Security. Securing Arizona was published on April 23, 2003 by 
Arizona State Governor Janet Napolitano. 
 
Goals   
1)  Enhance and maintain assessment and detection capabilities 
2)  Provide for regional interoperability and support 
3)  Create secure intelligence and information sharing systems and networks 
4)  Bolster response and recovery capabilities and protect emergency responders 
5)  Support national and state strategy for securing the border 
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bjectives  Seventeen objectives support the SHSS goals, address threat and vulnerability and work 
towards  enhancing  capabilities.  Implementation  steps  outline  the  necessary  course  of 
action to meet the objectives.  
 
• Enhance collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence and information. (Page   9) 
• Incorporate private sector. (Page   10) 
• Implement  federal  and  state  standards  for  hardening  public  and  private  key  assets  and  critical 
infrastructure.  
• Develop statewide-integrated justice information system. (Page   11) 
• Equip and resource a statewide information and referral (211) system.  
• Foster and support regional collaboration.  
• Develop a protocol to treat disease outbreak and biological or chemical weapons attacks. (Page   12) 
• Improve and enhance communication interoperability.  
• Incorporate federal and state legal/legislative review into homeland security processes. 
• Provide training for prevention of, response to and recovery from terrorism. (Page   13) 
• Provide standardized and interoperable state of the art equipment. (Page   14) 
• Support the national strategy to secure the border. (Page   15) 
• Refine and improve state plans and procedures. (Page   16) 
• Resource a secure online system and provide an Emergency Notification Network. (Page   17) 
• Support exercises that advance state strategy. 
• Use emerging technologies and expertise. 
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rocess  Risk, Vulnerability and Threat Assessment   An independent and standardized threat 
and vulnerability based risk assessment will be implemented throughout the state in order 
to assess reliable data on potential threat elements and vulnerable key assets and critical 
infrastructure.  Assessment  data  will  be  the  basis  for  regional  homeland  security 
jurisdiction boundaries within the State of Arizona.  
 
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Capability  Assessment     A  thorough  evaluation  of  existing  capabilities  to  detect  and 
prevent threat, protect infrastructure and to respond and recover from an  emergency  or 
disaster will be employed to identify shortfalls that need to be addressed. 
  
Implementation Plan   Action items will be coupled with lead and support entities for 
implementation and assigned timelines for completion.  
 
 
  
  
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS  
 
 
FORWARD………………………………………..…………………………………4 
VISION…………………………………………………………………………...…4 
FOCUS………………………………………………………………………………5 
COORDINATION…………………………………………………………………….5 
EFFORT……………………………………………………………………………..6 
DESCRIPTION OF JURISDICTIONS…………………………………………………..6 
JURISDICTION ASSESSMENT PROCESS……………………………………………..7 
JURISDICTION PRIORITIZATION……………………………………………………8 
GOALS………………………………………………………………………………9 
OBJECTIVES AND STEPS………………………………………………………...9-17 
EVALUATION PLAN…………………………………………………………….…18 
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN………………………………………………………….18 
GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ACRONYMS………………………………..…………19
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FORWARD 
 
The Arizona State Homeland Security Strategy (SHSS) provides strategic direction 
for enhancing regional capability and capacity  to: prevent terrorist attacks within 
Arizona; reduce Arizona's vulnerability to terrorism and all other critical hazards; 
minimize the damage and recover from terrorism and all other critical hazards that 
affect the safety, well-being, and economic security of the citizens and residents of 
Arizona.  
 
The  2003  Arizona  homeland  security  assessment,  fully  coordinated  with  local, 
state  and  tribal  jurisdictions,  provides  the  foundation  for  the  state  strategy.  This 
comprehensive  assessment  addressed  risk,  capabilities,  and  needs  (assessment 
report at TAB A). However, risk, vulnerability and threat assessment  in Arizona 
remains  a  dynamic  process.  The  state  strategy  therefore  anticipates  ongoing 
assessment  to  ensure  effective  and  efficient  resourcing  of  regional  homeland 
security  efforts.  The  strategy  draws  guiding  principles  and  objectives  from 
Securing Arizona, A Roadmap  for Arizona Homeland  Security. Securing Arizona 
was published on April 23, 2003 by Arizona State Governor Janet Napolitano and 
is posted on the worldwide web at http://www.homelandsecurity.az.gov. 
 
The  State  of Arizona  will  apply  the  resources  available  from  the  Department  of 
Homeland  Security  (DHS)  through  the  Office  for  State  and  Local  Government 
Coordination  and  Preparedness  (SLGCP)  along  with  state  and  private  funds  to 
support  the  security  strategy  and  the  planning,  equipment,  training,  and  exercise 
needs of the State. 
 
VISION 
 
The  State  of  Arizona's  vision  is  to  detect,  mitigate,  prepare  for,  respond  to,  and 
recover from a terrorism incident and all other critical hazards, while guarding the 
constitutionally protected rights of its citizens and residents. 
 
      
 
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FOCUS 
 
Arizona will  use a  multidisciplinary approach and will develop and enhance 
regional capability and capacity to prevent and reduce the vulnerability of Arizona 
from  Weapons  of  Mass  Destruction  (WMD)/terrorism  incidents  and  all  other 
critical  hazards.  Arizona  will  continue  existing  relationships  and  develop  new 
partnerships as appropriate  for  the state's  mission. Arizona will continue to 
improve and sustain  local and state capabilities to  detect,  mitigate, prepare  for, 
respond  to  and  recover  from  a  WMD  terrorism  incident  and  all  other  critical 
hazards. Arizona will continually develop and evaluate state and local strategies. 
 
COORDINATION 
 
When  the  Arizona  assessment  and  strategy  effort  was  initiated,  Governor  Janet 
Napolitano  designated  Frank  Navarrete,  Director  of  the  Arizona  Division  of 
Emergency Management (ADEM) and Office of Homeland Security (OHS), as the 
state  point  of  contact  for  the  State  Homeland  Security Assessment  and  Strategy 
(SHSAS) program. The State Administering Agency (SAA), ADEM, then formed 
a  State  Agency  Workgroup.  The  workgroup  was  responsible  for  making 
recommendations  regarding  the  strategy  preparation  phase  for  program  goals, 
objectives,  and  implementation  plans.  Outreach  was  also  conducted  with  county 
sheriffs, municipal fire and police chiefs, county emergency managers and others. 
Their suggestions and those of the State Agency Workgroup were presented to the 
Governor's  Homeland  Security  Coordinating  Council  (HSCC)  for  review  before 
going to the Governor s office for final approval. 
 
The Governor's  HSCC  is a  multidisciplinary committee appointed to advise  the 
Arizona OHS in all areas including planning, organization, equipment, training and 
exercises.  This  committee  includes  representatives  from  law  enforcement, 
emergency management, fire service, governmental administrative, tribal  nations, 
private  sector  and  volunteer  organizations  assisting  in  disaster  (VOAD).  The 
HSCC created an advisory group of subject matter experts from law enforcement, 
fire  service  and  hazardous materials  to  assist  in  establishing  minimum  levels  of 
personal  protective equipment (PPE)  for emergency responders and standardizing 
equipment  based  upon  state  needs  identified  in  the  2003  homeland  security 
assessment. 
  
  
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EFFORT 
 
The State s strategy will build upon coordination and will employ efforts to create 
a  credible  and  timely  assessment  process  to  allocate  scarce  homeland  security 
resources in the most efficient and effective manner. 
 
DESCRIPTION OF JURISDICTIONS 
 
Current  local  jurisdiction definition  in  Arizona consists of 15 counties that 
incorporate  cities,  towns, municipalities,  unincorporated  areas  and  tribal  nations. 
Each  jurisdiction  performed  an  individual  assessment  that  developed  its 
capabilities and needs at the jurisdiction  level.  All populated portions of the state 
and municipal agencies within each state jurisdiction were given an opportunity to 
participate  in  the  assessment  process.  The  SAA,  ADEM,  approved  these 
jurisdiction boundaries. 
 
Arizona  is  moving  towards  a  regionalized  approach  for  implementation  of  the 
homeland  security  strategy.  A supplemental,  independent  and  standardized  threat 
and  vulnerability based  risk assessment will be  implemented throughout  the state 
in  order  to  assess  reliable  data  on  potential  threat  elements  and  vulnerable  key 
assets and critical  infrastructure. Assessment data will be the basis  for  regional 
jurisdiction  boundaries  that  best  promote  mitigation  of  threat,  protection  of 
infrastructure  and  enhancement  of  existing  response  and  recovery  capabilities. 
Personal protection of emergency  response personnel will continue to be a 
statewide priority. 
 
             
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JURISDICTION ASSESSMENT PROCESS 
 
Arizona officials attended a regional session in San Francisco, California where an 
overview of the program was explained by the  federal Office  for State and Local 
Government Coordination and Preparedness (SLGCP) and technical advisors from 
Texas A&M University's Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). After returning, 
fifteen  jurisdiction meetings  were  held  in  each  of  the State's  counties  in  order  to 
instruct  local jurisdictions on completion of the 2003 homeland security 
assessments. Additional meetings were held  for  state agencies and  tribal nations. 
These meetings were held to  facilitate the completion of jurisdiction assessments 
using  the  DHS/SLGCP  jurisdiction  and  reference  handbooks  for  resource 
direction.  Using  these  resources,  workgroup  members  from  each  jurisdiction 
participated  in  each  session  to  ensure  standardization  in  all  assessments.  Cities, 
towns,  municipalities,  unincorporated  areas  and  tribes  completed  hardcopy 
versions of the assessment and submitted to their respective county  for electronic 
input  into the online Oracle Corporation tool (https://justice.ojp.usdoj.gov/dct). 
Upon  completion,  the  State  Agency  Workgroup  reviewed  and  analyzed  the 
assessments  as  quality  control  before  the  data  was  used  by  the  SAA.  The 
workgroup  reviewed assessments  for  completeness  and  ensured  projections made 
were realistic for each jurisdiction based on planning factors for CBRNE scenarios. 
If  an assessment  required  revision,  the SAA  released  the  information  back  to  the 
jurisdiction to be reviewed and resubmitted. 
  
             
 
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JURISDICTION PRIORITIZATION 
 
Many of the agencies within Arizona do not have sufficient resources to respond to 
a WMD  terrorism  incident.    These  agencies  rely  on  resources  provided  through 
mutual  aid  and  inter-agency  agreements.    The  Arizona  strategy  will  assess  the 
current coverage of those agreements.  Another key aspect of the Arizona strategy 
is to create regional response assets. This strategy will encourage municipalities 
that currently  have WMD response capabilities or are developing those 
capabilities, to expand  their current area  of  mutual-aid /  inter-agency agreement 
coverage. 
 
As noted, Arizona is moving towards a regionalized approach for implementation 
of the homeland security strategy. A supplemental risk assessment will be key to 
identifying threat and vulnerability throughout the state. This assessment will drive 
the state's design  for regionalization and  will  have direct bearing  on the state's 
prioritization process. The location of potential threat elements, key assets, critical 
infrastructure and population will direct the state's efforts to mitigate threat, protect 
infrastructure and enhance existing  response and recovery capabilities. Personal 
protection  of emergency response personnel  will continue to be a statewide 
priority. 
                  
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GOAL:  To  protect  all  of  Arizona's  citizens  and  residents  from  potential 
terrorist  attack  and  all  other  critical  hazards.  Five  primary  goals 
support the SHSS: 
  
G1) Enhance and maintain assessment and detection capabilities; 
G2) Provide for regional interoperability and support; 
G3) Create secure  intelligence and  information sharing systems and 
networks; 
G4) Bolster response and recovery capabilities and protect emergency 
responders; 
G5) Support national and state strategy for securing the border. 
 
(1) Objective -  Develop an  in-state capability to enhance collection, analysis 
and dissemination of critical homeland security intelligence and 
information. (Supports G-1,3,5) 
 
Steps: 
 
1.  Stand-up a 24/7 intelligence fusion center (Arizona Counter Terrorism Information 
Center [ACTIC]). 
2.  Enhance an electronic public health disease surveillance system with linkage to the 
ACTIC. 
3.  Establish secure and unclassified methods and processes for multi-discipline 
communication. 
4.  Incorporate and integrate private sector entities (i.e.- critical infrastructure 
strategic facilities) into fusion center operations. 
5.  Incorporate and integrate referral and information (211) system into fusion center 
operations. 
6.  Develop interstate and international connectivity to fusion center. 
7.  Integrate existing intelligence efforts within the state. 
8.  Coordinate participation and the support of jurisdictions, JTTF and other 
public/private entities. 
 
    
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(2) Objective -  Develop  and  formalize  plans  and  procedures  that  incorporate 
private sector entities into the SHSS. (G-1,2,3,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Charter a private sector organization to advise the HSCC on most effective means 
to incorporate the private sector in all aspects of state strategy. 
2.  Establish secure and unclassified communications systems and processes to support 
interactive and real-time intelligence/information exchange between private sector 
entities and state homeland security operations. 
3.  Develop plans and procedures, fully coordinated with responsible federal agencies, 
for incorporating international (cross-border) private entities that impact Arizona's 
vulnerability to terrorist attack and all other critical hazards. 
4.  Develop plans and procedures to address continuity of critical private sector 
functions in the event of disaster or state of emergency. 
5.  Develop plans and procedures to address acquiring, retaining, sharing and 
protecting private sector (proprietary) information. 
 
(3) Objective -  Develop  plans  and  procedures  that  coordinate  the 
implementation of federal and state standards for the hardening 
of public and private key assets and critical  infrastructure. (G-
1,2,3,4) 
 
Steps  
 
1.  Integrate subject matter experts (e.g.- civil engineers, public works) into state 
planning process. 
2.  Support public and private initiatives consistent with SHSS. 
 
         
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(4) Objective -  Develop statewide integrated justice information system.  
(G-1,3) 
 
Steps  
 
1.  Support and resource system linkage between federal, state, local and tribal 
criminal justice entities (police, corrections, courts, etc.). 
2.  Promote connectivity and access to critical databases for those individuals tasked 
with collecting, identifying and collaborating threat and or terrorism related 
information. 
 
(5) Objective -  Equip  and  resource  a  statewide  information  and  referral  (211) 
system. (G-1,2,4) 
 
Steps  
 
1.  Determine and provide equipment required to establish a statewide web based 
information and referral system that provides health and human resource assistance 
on a routine and crisis basis. 
2.  Determine and provide equipment required to establish regional 211 call centers 
that provide health and human resource assistance on a routine and crisis basis. 
3.  Determine and provide secure communication system linkage between 211 database 
and ACTIC. 
 
(6) Objective -  Foster and support regional collaboration. (G-2) 
 
Steps 
   
1.  Conduct a new assessment of risk, vulnerability and threat to support regional 
organizational planning and development. 
2.  Conduct most efficient organizational study to design regional homeland security in 
the state. 
3.  Design and stand-up regional organizations. 
4.  Support local initiatives that compliment the state's regional strategy. 
5.  Further develop and formalize interstate and international relationships. 
6.  Establish and/or enhance state organizations to address equipment, training and 
exercise standardization that supports interoperability and regional homeland 
security operations. 
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(7) Objective -  Identify  and  develop  a  protocol  to  treat  naturally  occurring 
disease  outbreak  and  biological  or  chemical  weapons  attacks. 
(G-4) 
 
Steps 
   
1.  Establish an Internet-based secure information system to link emergency, urgent 
care, and other appropriate healthcare related entities and facilities. 
2.  Work within national standards established by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC). 
 
(8) Objective -  Improve and enhance communication interoperability.  
(G-2,3,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Solidify fielding of interoperable communication systems in four (4) border 
jurisdictions. 
2.  Field, test and deploy interoperable communication systems in remaining 
jurisdictions. 
3.  Develop, field, test and deploy interoperable mobile communications units for 
statewide usage. 
4.  In collaboration with Border 2012, develop interoperable mobile communications 
unit for statewide and State of Sonora, Mexico usage. 
 
(9) Objective -  Incorporate  federal  and  state  legal/legislative  review  into 
homeland  security  processes  and  procedures  to  ensure 
compliance  with  federal  and  state  law,  and  to  identify 
legislative issues and gaps that impact SHSS. (G-1,2,3,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Determine legal impediments to effective operations and resourcing, and pursue 
legal relief as appropriate.  
2.  Determine needs for statutory or regulatory authority to improve homeland security 
processes to include funding and operations. 
3.  Include in the design of all homeland security plans and procedures the protection 
of operational security and individual rights. 
4.  Develop legislative action plan that supports SHSS. 
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(10) Objective -  Provide  all  public  and  private  leaders  and  homeland  security 
personnel (e.g.- Law Enforcement, Fire Service, EMS, HazMat, 
Public  Health,  Healthcare,  Public  Works,  Governmental 
Administrative, Public Safety Communications, and Emergency 
Management) with training that promotes efficient and effective 
prevention  of, response to and  recovery  from terrorism and all 
other critical hazards. (G-1,2,3,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Maximize use of existing and accredited individual and collective training courses 
that support national and state strategic objectives. 
2.  Support local training initiatives that support national and state strategic objectives. 
3.  Ensure training requirements are identified and resourced as a part of all state 
homeland security equipment and IT acquisition processes. 
4.  Support defensive and offensive response training on a regional basis and on a scale 
consistent with assessed vulnerabilities and capabilities. 
5.  In collaboration with Border 2012, support transborder training.  
6.  Establish a training component within intelligence fusion center (ACTIC) that 
develops and disseminates prevention and counter-terrorism training to public and 
private entities involved in the state intelligence cycle (collection, analysis, 
dissemination). 
7.  Support training of citizen emergency response teams (CERT) and other citizen 
organizations consistent with SHSS. 
 
            
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(11) Objective -  Provide  standardized  and  interoperable  state  of  the  art 
equipment to respond to terrorism and all other critical hazards. 
(G-2,4) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Provide all emergency responders with state of the art personal protective 
equipment. 
2.  Enhance state and regional capabilities to operate in all hazards environments 
(CBRNE). 
3.  Implement centralized purchasing and standards program for procurement of 
equipment.  
4.  Enhance state effort to standardize all hazards equipment to support regional 
response capabilities. 
  (12) Objective -  Refine and enhance state plans and procedures that support the 
national strategy to secure the border between Arizona and The 
Republic  of  Mexico  while  supporting  the  state's  economic 
partnership and promoting free trade. (G-1,3,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Develop plans, procedures and protocols that enhance and formalize the inter-
relationships between Arizona, US Government and The Republic of Mexico 
homeland security entities. 
2.  Integrate the national strategy supporting border security into all state plans and 
procedures. 
3.  Establish intelligence and information sharing systems, fully coordinated with 
responsible federal agencies, between Arizona and The Republic of Mexico. 
4.  Establish intelligence and information linkages to the ACTIC. 
5.  Use the Binational Emergency Management Ad Hoc Committee of the Arizona-
Mexico Commission as a vehicle to:  
1)  Develop plans for training programs to include private sector stakeholders 
2)  Conduct binational vulnerability and risk assessment studies along both sides 
of the border 
3)  Develop bi-national plans to address bioterrorism issues 
4)  Create specialized bi-national emergency response units to include 
standardized training and equipment. 
 
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(13) Objective -  Refine and improve state homeland security public information 
plans and procedures. (G-2,3,4) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Design and implement public awareness campaign on homeland security efforts to 
better inform the public regarding individual responsibilities and state/federal 
efforts. 
2.  Explore and exploit technology to enhance media and communications to support 
outreach to the public. 
3.  Employ state, county and local Citizen Corps Councils, their affiliated programs, 
and other volunteer/citizen based groups to implement public information campaign 
as appropriate. 
 
                         
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(14) Objective -  Refine  and  improve  state  plans  and  procedures  to:  Prevent 
terrorist attacks; Reduce vulnerability to terrorism and all other 
critical  hazards;  Minimize  the  damage  and  enhance  the 
recovery from attacks and other critical hazards. (G-1,2,3,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Complete a new assessment of risks, vulnerabilities and threats in the state; 
Assessment will also include statewide inventory of prevention, response recovery 
capabilities. 
2.  Based on the new assessment create contingency plans that leverage regional 
capabilities. 
3.  Establish standard operating procedure for unified command and control systems 
associated with incident management. 
4.  Incorporate National Incident Management System (NIMS) into standard operating 
procedures and strategic plans. 
5.  Establish mechanism for legal review of plans and procedures to ensure compliance 
with federal and state law and protection of individual rights. 
6.  Assess and analyze organizational structure and functions associated with homeland 
security and realign as necessary to improve efficiency and effectiveness. 
7.  Develop plans based on assessment to streamline homeland security operations and 
optimize communication and coordination among all homeland security actors (e.g.- 
Law Enforcement, Fire Service, EMS, HazMat, Public Health, Healthcare, Public 
Works, Governmental Administrative, Public Safety Communications, and 
Emergency Management). 
8.  Implement plans in phases to ensure continuity of communication and operations 
between legacy and objective organizations. 
9.  Develop and enhance measures and programs that detect and deter cyber related 
terrorism. 
10.  Coordinate with disabled citizen and special needs communities within Arizona; 
Integrate requirements into state contingency and operations plans. 
11.  Establish and enforce accountability for strategy implementation and good 
stewardship of resources by development of process metrics for both public and 
private sector entities. 
12.  Review and refine continuity of state government plans. 
13.  Develop methodologies to integrate capabilities of Citizen Corps and its affiliated 
programs into state plans. 
14.  Adopt and incorporate the ODP Prevention Guidelines for Homeland Security 
dated June 2003. 
15.  Foster and support planning and procedures that integrate participation in 
Arizona's health alert network system (Secured Integrated Response Electronic 
Notification [SIREN]). 
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(15) Objective -  Resource  a  secure  web  communication  system  to  disseminate 
and exchange  intelligence and critical information among 
public and private sector entities and to provide an Emergency 
Notification Network. (G-1,2,3,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Determine and support equipment needs required to increase security of existing 
secure websites.  
2.  Enhance existing intelligence exchange systems to support programs currently 
under development through the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center 
(ACTIC). 
3.  Design and equip statewide web system that builds on existing capabilities and 
integrates intelligence and information from all sources. 
 
(16) Objective -  Support  exercises  that  advance  state  strategy  whether  local  or 
state. (G-1,2,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Coordinate with jurisdictions to support exercises that compliment and support the 
SHSS.  
2.  Design and resource state exercises with a focus on homeland security plans, 
systems, processes and on testing individual and organizational competencies. 
3.  The state will work towards hosting TOPOFF 4 exercise and incorporate national 
objectives into design of state exercises. 
4.  Incorporate border security and bi-national cooperative elements in state exercise 
program. 
  
(17) Objective -  Use  emerging  technologies  and  expertise  to  combat  terrorist 
threats and address all other critical hazards. (G-1,2,3,4,5) 
 
Steps 
 
1.  Actively participate in national and international technology developments to 
inform technology acquisitions that support the SHSS. 
2.  Equip state institutions to address information technology security. 
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EVALUATION PLAN 
 
The Arizona Office of Homeland Security (OHS) will be the  responsible agency 
for  review,  revision  and  evaluation  of  strategic  goals,  objectives  and 
implementation  steps  of  the Arizona  State  Homeland  Security  Strategy  (SHSS). 
The  Arizona  OHS,  along  with  the  State  Administering  Agency  (SAA),  will 
conduct  semi-annual  meetings  in  order  to  review  the  strategic  goals,  objectives, 
and  implementation steps. The semi-annual  meetings will coincide with the 
standard June and December Categorical Assistance Progress Reports  (CAPR) to 
the federal Office for State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness 
(SLGCP).  
 
The Arizona OHS will evaluate achievements and identify pending objectives that 
remain  incomplete.  Additionally the  Arizona OHS will revise  objectives based 
upon  that  evaluation  with  input  from  the  field  (e.g.-  homeland  security  actors, 
organizations, HSCC). 
 
The  Arizona  OHS  will  identify  those  revised  goals  and  objectives  through  the 
standardized reporting  format designated  by  the ODP.  This report will earmark 
those  goals  and  objectives which  have  been  revised  and  provide  new  supporting 
information and metrics. 
 
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 
 
Upon approval of the plan by ODP the state of Arizona will: 
 
! Disseminate the SHSS to homeland security actors and organizations; 
! Make SHSS available to the public via AZ OHS web site; 
! Draft implementation plan (timelines/action items); 
! Convene the Arizona HSCC to review strategy implementation; 
! Based upon HSCC recommendation AZ OHS will obtain approval/guidance 
from the Governor to implement SHSS; 
! AZ OHS, and  the SAA, ADEM, will coordinate and  guide communication 
necessary at all levels to facilitate understanding and adoption by homeland 
security actors and organizations; 
! Identify  vulnerability, risk and  threat assessment methodology and execute 
assessment within thirty (30) days of SHSS approval by ODP; 
! Based on the state assessment AZ OHS will modify and refine the SHSS as 
appropriate with input from the field. 
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ACRONYMS 
 
 
211     Arizona Referral and Information System 
ACTIC   Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center 
ADEM   Arizona Division of Emergency Management 
AOHS/OHS   Arizona Office of Homeland Security 
BORDER 2012     Federal Environmental Protection Agency s US/Mexico Border 
Environmental Program 
CAPR   Categorical Assistance Progress Report 
CBRNE   Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive Agents 
CDC   Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
CERT   Citizen Emergency Response Teams 
DHS   Federal Department of Homeland Security 
EMA   Emergency Management 
EMS   Emergency Medical Service 
EOP   Emergency Operations Plan 
FS   Fire Service 
GA   Governmental Administrative 
HC   Health Care 
HZ   Hazardous Materials 
IT   Information Technology 
JTTF   Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorism Task Force 
HAZMAT   Hazardous Materials 
HSCC   Homeland Security Coordinating Council 
LE   Law Enforcement 
MMRS   Metropolitan Medical Response System 
NIMS   National Incident Management System 
ODP   Federal Office for Domestic Preparedness 
PH   Public Health 
PPE   Personal Protective Equipment 
PSC   Public Safety Communications 
PW   Public Works 
SAA   State Administering Agency 
SHSAS   State Homeland Security Assessment and Strategy 
SHSS   State Homeland Security Strategy 
SIREN   Secured Integrated Response Electronic Notification 
SLGCP  - Federal Office for State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness 
SWAT   Special Weapons and Tactics 
TEEX   Texas A&M University s Engineering Extension Service 
TIA   Terrorism Incident Annex 
TOPOFF 4   Federal Top Officials Exercise #4 Planned for 2007 
WMD   Weapons of Mass Destruction