Chertoff said the plan includes renaming the Information
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate to the
Directorate for Preparedness, which would consolidate
preparedness assets from across DHS and facilitate grants,
oversee preparedness efforts supporting first responder
training, citizen awareness, public health, infrastructure
and cyber security.
He said that directorate, would be managed by yet another
undersecretary and include an assistant secretary for
cyber security and telecommunications, a chief medical
officer responsible for coordinating bio-attack response
and serving as a liaison to the Department of Health and
Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control, the
National Institutes of Health, and others.
The preparedness directorate would also include assets of
the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and
Preparedness responsible for grants, training and
exercises, the Fire Administration, and Office of National
Capitol Region Coordination.
