Homeland Security
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Provides Unification of 22 government agencies to protect the nation from all threats.
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Homeland Security Advisory System illustrates the current level of the five possible terrorist threat levels for review by Federal, State, local government and citizens.
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Links to Citizen Corps and Freedom Corps encourage citizens to be prepared, volunteer in their communities, to sign up to assist first responders in the event of local and national emergencies. Ready.gov educates on what to do in an emergency or threat situation.
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The National Cyber Security Division: Provided info and patch info on the Blaster worm which caused an est. 350,000 business and personal computers to shut down globally.
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Good example of the responsiveness of E-Gov to public need.