WHITE HOUSE FACT SHEET ON
COUNTER-TERRORISM MEASURES
09 October 1996THE PRESIDENT'S COUNTERTERRORISM PROPOSAL
TOTAL: $1.097 BILLION (Gore Commission, $429.4 Million)SCREEN CHECKED BAGGAGE: $91.1 MILLION (APPROVED)
Purchase and install 54 CTX-5000SP FAA-certified explosive detection systems for screening checked baggage at U.S. airports. These screeners use computed tomography technology to automatically identify threat objects in checked baggage. Purchase 79 trace detectors to help resolve alarms identified by the CTX systems. Purchase and install 20 dual energy x-ray machines, and five Quadropole Resonance machines to help detect explosives. (Federal Aviation Administration)
SCREEN CARRY-ON BAGGAGE: $37.8 MILLION (APPROVED)
Purchase 410 trace detectors for screening electronics and other carry-on items. These machines take a sample from the surface of a laptop computer, cellular telephone or other item and can detect minute traces (parts per billion) of explosive materials. (Federal Aviation Administration)
CANINE TEAMS: $8.9 MILLION (APPROVED)
Fund 114 canine teams at U.S. airports. These dog and trainer teams will be used for tasks that include inspection of suspicious baggage, cargo, as well as aircraft and parked vehicles located on airport grounds. (Federal Aviation Administration)
AUGMENT FAA SECURITY RESEARCH: $20 MILLION (APPROVED)
Increase by more than 50 percent FAA's Security Research budget. This increase will speed the introduction of new technologies for explosive detection, aircraft hardening, airport security technology integration, as well as aviation security human factors research. (Federal Aviation Administration)
SECURITY WORKFORCE: $18 MILLION (APPROVED)
Double the FAA security workforce over a three year period -- an increase of 600 positions. The $18 million requested would hire 100 additional security agents in 1997 and 200 in 1998. (Federal Aviation Administration)
VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS: $5.5 MILLION (APPROVED)
Conduct or update vulnerability assessments at the busiest U.S. airports. The results of these assessments would be used to develop an action plan to improve and maintain security at each airport. (Federal Aviation Administration)
PASSENGER PROFILING: $10 MILLION (APPROVED)
Augment airline reservation and check-in computer systems with passenger profiling capabilities. This system would use information already collected and stored in reservation systems and other existing databases to identify passengers on whom to concentrate additional security measures. (Federal Aviation Administration)
SCREENER TRAINING: $5.3 MILLION (APPROVED)
Install computer training and testing systems to improve the performance of baggage screening personnel. This system would randomly insert "ghost" images of various threat objects into x-ray images of checked and carry-on baggage to test screener alertness and proficiency. (Federal Aviation Administration)
SCREEN PASSENGERS (PORTALS) AND DOCUMENT SCANNERS: $1 MILLION (APPROVED)
Conduct operational testing of new applications of trace detection systems for screening documents (e.g., boarding passes, passports) and passengers. (Federal Aviation Administration)
ANTI-TERRORISM ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS: $2 MILLION (APPROVED AS EARMARK OF EXISTING FUNDS)
Provide increased funding for training and equipment to foreign countries to enhance the anti-terrorism skills and abilities of foreign law enforcement and security officials. (State Department)
DEPLOYING EXISTING TECHNOLOGY TO INSPECT INTERNATIONAL AIR CARGO: $31.4 MILLION (APPROVED, BUT NEED ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY TO MAXIMIZE EFFECTIVENESS)
Deploy x-ray and other existing explosives detection technologies for joint Customs and airline use to inspect outbound international air cargo for explosives and other dangerous weapons that may jeopardize the safety of air passengers. Customs would enter into cooperative agreements with airlines and air cargo authorities for the use of such equipment. (Customs Service)
PROVIDE ADDITIONAL AIR/COUNTERTERRORISM SECURITY: $26.6 MILLION (APPROVED, BUT NEED ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY TO MAXIMIZE EFFECTIVENESS)
Provide Customs with the legal authority and resources to effectively target and screen international air passengers and cargo by requiring the submission of advance cargo and passenger manifest information. Provide Customs with the legal authority and resources to screen outgoing international mail being loaded on U.S. flights for explosives and other dangerous weapons. Customs will also hire 140 additional inspectors and agents to inspect outbound international air travelers, international mail, international air cargo, and to work cooperatively with the FBI on counterterrorism investigations. (Customs Service)
TAGGANTS STUDY: $21.3 MILLION (APPROVED)
Conduct a comprehensive study of taggants used in explosives (as opposed to the interim report that congressional funding would allow). The study also will examine black and smokeless powder. Specifically, the study will discuss:
-- the feasibility of imposing controls on certain precursor chemicals used to make explosives;
-- the feasibility of making common chemicals used to manufacture explosives inert (and development of proposed regulations); and
-- the feasibility of tagging explosive materials for purposes of detection and identification;
Also, conduct studies of:
-- state licensing requirements for purchase and use of commercial high explosives; and
-- armor-piercing ammunition.
(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
EXPLOSIVES DETECTION TRAINING: $1.8 MILLION (APPROVED)
Develop and produce instruction and training materials on recognition and detection of explosives and improvised explosive devices. This funding will allow the staffing and presentation of two to three courses in FY 1997. Training will he presented to federal, state, and local law enforcement, and FAA and airline industry personnel. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
CAPACITY TO COLLECT AND ASSEMBLE EXPLOSIVES DATA: $2.1 MILLION (APPROVED)
Enhance the Explosive Incident System to include a digital library of previously encountered devices. This library will include descriptions of the material contained within the devices. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
INCREASED STAFFING: $91.7 MILLION (MOSTLY APPROVED)
This component increases FBI's staffing. The funding will allow the FBI to: establish an infrastructure/Key Asset program to identify Key Assets in our nation's infrastructure which, if damaged or sabotaged, could cause systemic problems through communities, cities, or the nation; enhance capability for investigations of domestic groups, such as militias, and right-wing groups such as the Aryan Nations; enhance capabilities for investigations relative to chemical/biological/nuclear (CBN) matters; address additional hiring and procurement services related to resources provided through the 1997 Amendment; improve Counterterrorism operational support; and fund FBI-sponsored joint terrorism task forces. This would increase FBI's capability by 100 percent by providing significant additional resources to FBI's anti-terrorism efforts. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
IMPROVE DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE: $38.9 MILLION (MOSTLY APPROVED)
Create additional positions (including agents) to support: a Computer Investigations Threat Assessment Center (CITAC) to identify, investigate, and counter illegal electronic intrusion into government computer networks; a database to maintain and organize information relating to key physical assets; two Field Translation Centers staffed with 50 contract translators; and 210 field INTELINK workstations. The increased domestic intelligence capability is necessary to deal with heightened threat to American assets and interests. This funding will also allow the FBI to replace NIGHTSTALKER, which is used for both daytime and nighttime overhead surveillance and response coordination. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
IMPROVE FORENSIC/CRISIS MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES: $16 MILLION (MOSTLY APPROVED)
Create additional positions (including agents) and fund: the development of a hazardousmaterials/chemical/biological/nuclear (CBN) capability within the FBI laboratory to research better methods for response to CBN activities, the purchase of Hazardous Response Team CBN clothing and equipment, and provide for the operations of the Critical Incident Response Group. The enhanced forensic capability will enable the FBI to deal with today's more sophisticated terrorism threat. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
(OTHER COUNTER-TERRORISM PROPOSALS, $667.4 MILLION) FACILITIES: $436.9 MILLION
PERSIAN GULF FORCE PROTECTION: $122.6 MILLION (APPROVED)
Relocate troops to more secure areas, buy and install fences, berms, Jersey barriers, intrusion detection devices, and other force protection items; and expand intelligence gathering, analysis and dissemination capability. (Defense Department)
Overseas Physical Security Upgrades: $138.5 Million (Approved)
Increase the physical protection for U.S. forces outside the Persian Gulf by hardening gates; installing fences, concrete barriers, and intrusion detection devices; and expanding the secure perimeter around many installations. The Department will also purchase body armor and upgrade armored vehicles to meet the new terrorist capabilities. (Defense Department)
UPGRADE OVERSEAS SECURITY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION: $9.4 MILLION (APPROVED, AS PART OF SECURITY OF U.S. MISSIONS, PG. 8)
Upgrade security and fund relocations for 42 non-chancery locations for the International Trade Administration's Foreign Commercial Service. Foreign Commercial Service officers promote U.S. trade worldwide and are located within international business districts that may be at risk for terrorism. (Commerce Department)
ENHANCE SECURITY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE LABORATORIES: $23 MILLION (APPROVED)
Enhance security at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Atlanta headquarters and better protect laboratories containing dangerous infectious agents against possible attacks by increasing the buffer zone around CDC's headquarters through the purchase of land and installation of security fences, improving emergency power arrangements, enhancing the screening of incoming mail, and tightening control over access to the buildings. (Department of Health and Human Services)
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR FACILITY SECURITY AND TRAINING: $15.9 MILLION (APPROVED)
Funds would provide for additional training of National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement personnel, as well as improved security-related equipment. Specific equipment include enhanced communications systems, magnetometers, x-ray machines (for building and facility security), improved perimeter fencing (at Bureau of Reclamation dams), as well as various other upgrades to minimize monuments and facilities vulnerabilities. Most of the proposed activities are in accordance with the recommendations in the Department of Justice Vulnerability Assessment of Federal Facilities conducted after the Oklahoma City bombing. (Interior Department)
COURTS OF APPEALS' DISTRICT COURTS, AND OTHER JUDICIAL SERVICES: $10 MILLION (APPROVED, $3.2 OF THE $10 MILLION IN CONTINGENCY FUNDING)
Enable the Judiciary to handle the additional workload envisioned in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Specifically, the funds would be used for representation, processing and collections related to victim restitution orders; costs associated with the hiring of additional United States Attorneys; and the provision of additional security at federal court houses. (Judiciary)
FBI: BUILDING SECURITY; $7 MILLION (APPROVED)
Provide a secure working environment for FBI employees by allowing the FBI to: purchase additional x-ray machines and magnetometers for security at various field offices; upgrade building security monitoring systems; increase contract guard services at field offices with inadequate security staffing; and hire security officers at the Washington Metropolitan Field Office. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS: $15.6 MILLION (APPROVED, $10.9 OF THE $15.6 MILLION)
Fund 30 new positions to handle terrorism-related cases and increased wiretap activity. The new funds will also be used to enhance building security at U.S. Attorneys' offices around the country and to ensure compatibility with the FBI's Computer Investigation Threat Assessment Center (CITAC) efforts. (Justice Department)
DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (DEA); $7 MILLION (APPROVED, $5 MILLION OF THE $7 MILLION REQUESTED)
Prevent terrorist or drug trafficker retaliatory attacks by providing funds to help improve the physical security of DEA office buildings and vehicles. The funds will be used for DEA's Headquarters Office, as well as various domestic and foreign field offices, and will include six armored vehicles and residential security radios for residences. (Drug Enforcement Agency)
DIPLOMATIC SECURITY: $23.7 MILLION (APPROVED)
Fund additional guard protection at overseas office and residential facilities, armored vehicles to meet increased threat needs in the Persian Gulf and other high threat areas, security equipment overseas including closed circuit television cameras and alarms, increased training and awareness programs, enhanced capability for emergency security support, and additional explosive detection equipment. Security enhancements to protect American personnel are required to meet the heightened threat of terrorist activity. (State Department)
SECURITY OF U.S. MISSIONS: $14.3 MILLION (APPROVED, ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL SUMS FOR OTHER AGENCIES' OVERSEAS SECURITY PROPOSALS, TOTALING $22.9 MILLION)
Fund additional security upgrades at U.S. diplomatic facilities including the construction of walls or other barriers to improve perimeter security, anti-ram protection at facility entrances, relocation of staff from physically vulnerable space, installation of blast resistant windows, and other projects to harden facilities against terrorist threats. (State Department)
ATF: CRITICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAMS FOR POST BLAST DEPLOYMENT: $7.2 MILLION (APPROVED)
Enable ATF to have forensic facilities available at bomb scenes to collect and analyze post-blast evidence. The funding would also allow the hiring of 11 additional personnel who would work at bomb scenes to provide post-blast expertise. Also, funding will be provided to allow the purchase of additional tactical and computer equipment needed to perform post-blast investigations. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
ATF: ADDITIONAL SECURITY FOR FEDERAL FACILITIES: $6.7 MILLION (APPROVED)
Provide funds for relocating ATF headquarters. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE (USSS): ADDITIONAL SECURITY EQUIPMENT: $1.1 MILLION (APPROVED)
Provide radiation detection equipment, additional security improvements at the Treasury building, rescue unit systems and intruder system upgrades. (United States Secret Service)
USSS: EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT RELATED TO AIRPLANE CRASH: $1.4 MILLION (APPROVED)
Replace equipment lost in the crash of the Air Force C-130 on August 17, 1996 in Wyoming. Much of this equipment is used to protect the President during his travels. (United States Secret Service)
CUSTOMS SERVICE: EXPLOSIVES AND RADIATION DETECTION EQUIPMENT: $2.2 MILLION (APPROVED)
Provide Customs with explosives/radiation detection equipment for use by inspectors at heavily trafficked gateway ports. This equipment will he used to assist inspectors by helping them detect explosive and radioactive materials smuggled in imported merchandise. (Customs Service)
OVERSEAS BUILDING SECURITY: $0.6 MILLION (APPROVED AS EARMARK OF EXISTING FUNDS)
Improve the security of overseas facilities and increase the protection of U.S. government employees by providing improved communications equipment in cases of emergency, additional guard protection at overseas facilities, a heavily armored vehicle, and driver training for emergency situations. (Agency for International Development)
PERSONNEL AND PROTECTIVE MEASURES: $3.3 MILLION (PARTIALLY FUNDED)
Enhance and acquire security equipment and guard services; develop and deliver training for employees; and provide terrorism-specific upgrades for Federal Regional Centers. (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
FIREFIGHTER/EMERGENCY SERVICES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: $2.7 MILLION (PARTIALLY FUNDED)
Enable FEMA to provide grants to state and local emergency responders for specialized training and equipment. (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
HEADQUARTERS BUILDING SECURITY: $0.2 MILLION (APPROVED)
Reduce the vulnerability of OPM's Headquarters building to entrance by unauthorized vehicles by installing pop-up vehicle barriers at building garage entrances. Purchase magnetometers to screen walk-in visitors to areas of the building open to the public (e.g., the Federal Job Information Center and the Retirement Information Center). (Office of Personnel Management)
PUBLIC BUILDING AND MUSEUM SECURITY: $7.3 MILLION (APPROVED)
Reduce vulnerability to terrorist threats by improving detection equipment, hiring additional security personnel, and conducting comprehensive threat assessment studies. (Smithsonian Institution and Museums)
FACILITY SECURITY: $2.5 MILLION (APPROVED)
Fund security improvements required to protect USIA personnel and facilities vulnerable to terrorist threats including emergency communication equipment, surveillance equipment, secure vehicles, alarms, additional guard services, and visitor screening areas. (United States Information Agency)
OTHER TREASURY DEPARTMENT: BUILDING SECURITY: $14.7 MILLION (APPROVED, EXCEPT $161K FOR BUREAU OF PUBLIC DEBT)
Provides funds for staffing and other costs related to enhanced Federal building security. These enhancements will be performed in accordance with the Department of Justice Vulnerability Assessment of Federal Facilities conducted after the Oklahoma City bombing. (Treasury Department)
Enforcement: $114 Million
EXPANDING THE BUREAU OF EXPORT ADMINISTRATION'S EFFORTS TO DETECT ILLEGAL EXPORTS: $3.9 MILLION (APPROVED)
Fund 22 criminal investigators for the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) to expand its export enforcement efforts. These criminal investigators will focus on preventing exporting commodities that could be used to develop and deliver weapons of mass destruction, including biological agents, nuclear weapons, and missile development. The funding will be used at BXA's headquarters and eight field offices. (Commerce Department)
IMPROVE TECHNOLOGY TO PREVENT NUCLEAR SMUGGLING: $8 MILLION (DENIED, BUT RELATED ITEM FUNDED IN THE FY 1997 ENERGY/WATER APPROPRIATIONS BILL)
Expand DOE assistance in control of nuclear materials at U.S. Customs and border control points. Expand analytical and technical support by DOE's national laboratories to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Speed the development of prototype equipment for "tagging" nuclear materials and for active methods to enhance detection and trace the source of trafficked material. (Energy Department)
FBI: CRITICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE FACILITY: $2 MILLION (DENIED)
Fund architecture and engineering for a facility to support the Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG). The CIRG is currently staffed by 147 Special Agents and 60 support personnel who provide operational support, guidance, and training in cases involving crisis management, hostage negotiation, abduction or mysterious disappearance of children, serial killings, Criminal Investigative Analysis, Special Weapons Tactics, the protection of the Attorney General, and the assessment, selection and training of FBI undercover employees. The CIRG building would be located at the Quantico Marine Corps Base. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (INS): $15 MILLION (APPROVED)
Enhance INS intelligence gathering activities and improve coordination with the State Department, FBI and other law enforcement agencies. The funds will allow INS to better monitor the number and expanded scope of international alien smuggling rings and improve its ability to interdict possible terrorist entry into the country. These funds will also be available to support the detention and removal of aliens with ties to terrorist organizations. (Immigration and Naturalization Service)
OTHER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES: $14.2 MILLION (PARTIALLY FUNDED)
Provide funds for additional building security, local law enforcement training, and enhanced intelligence collection and analysis. Includes funds for: the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) -- for increased electronic surveillance activity as well as funding to respond to increased wiretap requests and handling extradition and mutual assistance cases involving terrorism. (Justice Department)
COUNTER-TERRORISM FUND: $35 MILLION (CONTINGENCY FUND) (APPROVED, $20 OF $35 MILLION REQUESTED)
Provide contingency resources that could become available in the future. It would give the President and the Attorney General flexibility to respond to any terrorist threats or actual acts of terrorism. The existing Counter-terrorism Fund will be converted to a contingency fund for counter-terrorism. (Justice Department)
ATF: INSPECTING EXPLOSIVES LICENSEES AND PERMITTEES: $1.8 MILLION (APPROVED)
Work to provide 100 percent annual inspection of explosives manufacturing and storage facilities. With the hiring of 17 additional inspectors in fiscal 1997, ATF will increase the percentage of explosives licensees and permittees who can be inspected. In fiscal 1995, ATF was only able to inspect between 40 to 50 percent of the current explosive licensee and permittees. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER (FLETC): $4.1 MILLION (APPROVED)
Provide basic training for new counter-terrorism personnel, and provide needed physical security enhancements for the FLETC facility. (Treasury Department)
SALARIES AND EXPENSES: $6 MILLION (APPROVED)
Provide funds for NTSB to reimburse the Navy and other federal agencies for costs incurred to recovery wreckage from TWA flight 800. (National Transportation Safety Board)
EMERGENCY FUND: $1 MILLION (APPROVED)
Replenish the agency's Emergency Fund, depleted by the recovery and investigation of TWA flight 800. (National Transportation Safety Board)
ENHANCE NEST NUCLEAR COUNTER-TERRORISM PROGRAM: $15 MILLION (DENIED, BUT RELATED ITEMS FUNDED IN THE FY 1991 ENERGY/WATER APPROPRIATIONS BILL)
Enhance Nuclear Energy Search Team (NEST) capabilities by conducting a realistic deployment exercise. The Department will also expand training of non-Federal personnel who are likely to be first on the scene of a nuclear terrorist incident and improve technology to analyze and render-safe a potential terrorist nuclear device. (Energy Department)
RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION (RSPA): TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT: $2.5 MILLION (APPROVED)
Perform a Transportation System Vulnerability Assessment that will provide necessary information for use in protecting all modes of transportation from both physical and information-based threats. (Transportation Department)
RSPA: ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY: $0.5 MILLION (APPROVED)
Contract with National Academy of Sciences to form an Advisory Committee on Surface Transportation Security. (Transportation Department)
ATF: EXPAND CANINE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM: $7.5 MILLION (APPROVED)
Offer a training program for explosives detecting canines used by other Federal, State, local, and other law enforcement agencies. These funds will allow ATF to: train 29 new canines in fiscal 1997 (with a goal of 100 canines in each year thereafter) allowing for expanded use of canines in explosive detection, participate in the drafting of canine certification criteria, build additional kennel and training facilities, annually recertify canines, participate in a working group on canine certification criteria, and to hire 23 additional personnel, including 8 trainers. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
ATF: CAR BOMB STUDIES: $3 MILLION (APPROVED)
Continue to work with the Defense Department and the State Department in conducting large vehicle bomb tests. Test detonations of various explosive materials will be performed and data collected to aid in the analysis and investigation of large scale car bombings. These funds would allow the hiring of one additional chemist and four explosives technology specialists. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
ATF: EMERGENCY CONTINGENCY FUNDING: $15 MILLION (APPROVED, FOR TREASURY DEPARTMENT)
Provide the Treasury Secretary with a fund of $15 million to be used to reimburse any Treasury organization for extraordinary expenses incurred in providing support to counter, investigate, or prosecute terrorism. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
ATF: EXPLOSIVES INTELLIGENCE AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS: $14.2 MILLION (APPROVED)
Hire 31 additional special agents and research specialists to gather intelligence to be used to prevent bombings. These same individuals also would be involved in the response to, and investigation of bombings. A large portion of the funds would be dedicated to providing essential computer support systems to support these intelligence functions. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES: OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL: SEIZE FOREIGN ASSETS OF TERRORISTS AND TERRORIST-SPONSORING ORGANIZATION: $0.3 MILLION (APPROVED)
Enable the Office of Foreign Assets Control to hire additional staff to support the recent expansion of sanction programs targeting international terrorists and their sponsoring organizations and states. (Treasury Department)
Consequence Management (Protecting Americans from the Effects of Terrorism) and Other Vital Efforts: $116.6 Million
OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: $5.8 MILLION (APPROVED)
Strengthen HHS' ability to prepare for and respond to health and medical consequences of terrorist attacks including the development of metropolitan emergency response teams of non-Federal health professionals trained to respond to medical consequences of terrorist attack; research to improve detection, protection, and treatment of nuclear/biological/chemical attacks; development of expertise in identifying appropriate treatment for specific chemical agents and infectious organisms; and purchase or pharmaceuticals, such as antidotes, to assist with treating victims of chemical attacks. (Department of Health and Human Services)
TRAINING, AWARENESS, AND INFORMATION PROGRAMS: $93.1 MILLION (APPROVED)
Conduct terrorism awareness programs to make soldiers and sailors aware of the threat, the potential targets, and the standard tactics terrorists use. Various training efforts will enable soldiers, sailors, and airmen to use the physical protection equipment effectively. The Department will also take steps to protect its information infrastructure from attack, and increase its ability to disseminate information about terrorist organizations and their targets to field commanders. (Defense Department)
CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND COORDINATION: $9.3 MILLION (PARTIALLY FUNDED)
Integrate consequence management response activities into the interagency Federal Response Plan to ensure an efficient and coordinated Federal response and integration at the Federal, State, and local levels, and enhance emergency management teams' capabilities in these specialized areas. FEMA has been designated the lead Federal agency for consequence management response activities in relation to terrorist incidents. (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
FEDERAL/STATE/LOCAL ASSESSMENT, TRAINING, AND EXERCISES: $8.4 MILLION (PARTIALLY FUNDED)
Enable FEMA to revise or develop Federal level and field training; develop a terrorism annex to its existing all-hazards planning document; conduct full-scale Federal exercises to ensure appropriate deployment and coordination of Federal Response Plan agencies; develop and deliver simulation training; and assess and improve State and local consequence activities. (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE (APPROVED)
Expand the capability of national foreign intelligence to combat terrorism. The initiative includes, but is not limited to, the following:
CREATION OF A NATIONAL-LEVEL FOREIGN TERRORISM WARNING GROUP WITHIN THE COUNTER TERRORISM CENTER.
This expert group will focus exclusively on the review of intelligence from all sources to provide warning of possible foreign terrorist attacks against U.S. or our allies.
Significant increase in CIA operatives.
These additional Directorate of Operations case officers will work overseas to collect information on foreign terrorism. We are also increasing the number officers assigned to the Counter Terrorism Center to work against foreign terrorists.
Expansion of intelligence for "force protection."
Carefully-assembled intelligence teams will help protect our military facilities and overseas government facilities. This initiative will expand our current use of National Intelligence Support Teams, which now assist our military in the Balkans and in Saudi Arabia.
Increased capability of U.S. intelligence to act forcefully against terrorists worldwide.
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