U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. A unit in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. • Its functions were transferred from the former Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice in 2003. — Abbr. USCIS.
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Science and Technology Directorate. The division of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for coordinating research and development, including preparing for and responding to terrorist threats involving weapons of mass destruction. • The Directorate also works with the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Countermeasures Program and the Environmental Measurements Lab in the Department of Energy,
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. A unit in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing laws relating to firearms and explosives and laws relating to the production, taxation, and distribution of alcohol and tobacco products. • Formerly called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and a part of the Department
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Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate. The division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for analyzing intelligence information gathered from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Administration, and other sources, and for issuing warnings about threats of terrorist attack. • The unit is
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DHS.abbr. 1. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. 2. Department of Human Services. See DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE.
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. An interagency law-enforcement training facility responsible for serving over 70 law-enforcement organizations in the federal government. • The Center was transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Homeland Security in 2003. — Abbr. FLETC.
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National Disaster Medical System. A unit of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for training, equipping, and deploying teams of emergency medical responders and for coordinating the transportation of people affected by emergencies. • The agency was transferred from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in
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Office of State and Local Government Coordination. A unit in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for coordinating security matters with state and local governments.
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United States Secret Service. A law-enforcement agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for providing security for the President, Vice President, certain other government officials, and visiting foreign diplomats, and for protecting U.S. currency by enforcing the laws relating to counterfeiting, forgery, and credit-card fraud. • The Service was transferred from the Department
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Strategic National Stockpile. A national repository of medicines and healthcare supplies maintained jointly by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to respond to public-health emergencies. • Created as the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile in 1999, the agency caches antibiotics, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, life-support medications, IV administration, airway
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