Year: 2015

Earlier this year the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) released the Policy for Humanitarian Action. OFDA leads the multi-agency response to disasters overseas by coordinating efforts, partnering with a range of humanitarian actors, and coordinating within the international humanitarian architecture, among other activities, and the policy outlines […]

This month the U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Labor announced the selection of six new Anti-Trafficking Coordination Teams (ACTeam).  These teams will lead Phase II of the ACTeam Initiative, an interagency effort to streamline federal criminal investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking offenses that began in 2011. The new ACTeams will be based […]

Last week Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill to the House of Representatives that calls for the creation of a multi-agency federal team to improve and reform federal disaster assistance. The bill, H.R. 4288, was introduced on December 17, and was then referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. For more […]

The Army is looking for qualified majors and lieutenant colonels to participate in the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s (CGSC) Interagency Fellowship Program. The program, a career broadening, educational opportunity for field grade officers, was launched in 2008. The fellowship program now boasts 28 interagency partners, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report reviewing collaboration in critical infrastructure cybersecurity. Critical infrastructure includes financial institutions and energy production, and is vital to U.S. national security, as well as the nation’s economy and public health and safety. These systems are secured by sector-specific agencies (SSAs) following federal policies and the National […]

In November, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center released the 2016 National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States of America. The new strategy updates previous versions, and lays out how the U.S. government will identify and disrupt foreign intelligence entity (FIE) threats. The strategy addresses counterintelligence concerns inside and outside of government, and builds on […]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña recently discussed ICE’s work in removing individuals who have crossed the border illegally, have been convicted of felonies or misdemeanors, or have participated in various other illegal activities. Saldaña’s written testimony was addressed to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The testimony highlighted ICE’s enforcement and removal […]

The Foundation has been busy and the new classes are well underway, so it’s just a typical fall season at Fort Leavenworth. In this edition of the Foundation News we continue our “CGSC 101” series that highlights the various teaching departments at the College with a feature on the Department of Military History. We also […]

Last week the U.S. Department of State issued The Global Illicit Trade in Tobacco: A Threat to National Security, a publication outlining the whole-of-government effort to combat the illicit trade in tobacco. The publication was released on December 2, at a meeting of the Interagency Working Group to Combat Illicit Tobacco, which focuses on collaboration in countering […]

[picasa width=”600″ height=”400″ bgcolor=”#ffffff” autoplay=”1″ showcaption=”0″ user=”CGSCFoundation” album=”es_NSRT23DEC15″] The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the CGSC Foundation cohosted a National Security Roundtable program Dec. 2-3, 2015 at the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Thirteen leaders from the public and private sector in the Kansas City metro area and around […]