How the Department of Homeland Security Can Employ Unmanned Aircraft Systems

<p>The Department of Homeland Security faces many challenges from helping to defend America against terrorist attacks to providing timely and effective support in response to natural disasters. Unmanned Aircraft Systems properly used can help the department efficiently meet these challenges. This paper focuses on two of the Department's organizations the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Coast Guard can use an off-the-shelf Predator B to fulfill its Reconnaissance and Airborne-Use-of-Force missions more effectively than they can with today's manned aircraft or helicopters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency can also use a Predator B as either a communications relay or as a tool to provide situational awareness in an area with damaged infrastructure.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>