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Federal Executive Branch Agencies Roles and Responsibilities in United States Elections
In the United States, states have primary responsibility for the administration of Federal elections. This fact sheet provides information on the roles and responsibilities of federal executive branch agencies.
Federal Executive Branch Agencies Roles and Responsibilities in United States Elections
In the United States, states have primary responsibility for the administration of Federal elections. This page provides information on the roles and responsibilities of federal executive branch agencies.
Data, Modeling, and Simulation Sciences
In today’s world where data is ubiquitous and inexpensive, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can leverage data science developments across multiple homeland security missions to identify signals, patterns, and structures within high-dimensional, noisy, uncertain input. Data sciences and simulation sciences conduct experiments to predict different operational outcomes. Such research can improve the phenomenology of crowd models, improve tool sets available in cyber analytics platforms, decrease the time needed to develop training data annotations in law enforcement missions, improve air interdiction of drug trafficking, and adapt training according to the trainee’s strengths and weaknesses.
Social Sciences
Developing a scientific understanding of how individuals, small groups, and organizations affect threats, prevention, resilience, security, and recovery activities related to the homeland security mission is a vitally important undertaking.
Novel Materials and Secure Manufacturing
The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is focused on harnessing the potential of advanced novel materials that could help drive down cost and improve their suitability for use in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operational environments. As advances in novel materials and manufacturing are discovered, applying them to DHS mission spaces will be vital to providing improved capability to screen, interdict, and protect against threats.
Communications and Cyber Resiliency
Operational assurance in an increasingly digitally-integrated environment requires resiliency across data, software, hardware and communications networks. DHS operations are often conducted in challenging, congested and contested environments across cyber and electromagnetic domains.
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is the integration of the life sciences and engineering with the goal of harnessing the power of biological molecules, cells, and even whole organisms for industrial, commercial, or other purposes.
Emerging Computing Paradigms
There are a number of emerging architecture platforms (e.g., quantum, neuromorphic, optical, etc.) on the horizon that are better aligned with emerging application needs and have the potential to significantly accelerate performance, efficiency, and cost, while reducing power consumption. These next-generation computing paradigms deserve our vigilant attention.
Digital Identity and Trust
Digital trust enabled by new capabilities, such as digital credentials (e.g., model drivers licenses) and zero trust architecture, are critical to DHS successfully deploying and operating 5G communication systems, critical infrastructure, government services, and many other Department missions.
Advanced Sensing
Sensors are vital to almost every mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The ability to identify manmade and natural threats and maintain situational awareness during daily operations and catastrophic incidents is critical to protecting the homeland.