Office of Strategic Plans

Mission

The Office of Strategic Plans articulates the long-term view of the Department and translates the Secretary’s strategic priorities into capstone planning products that drive integration, component priorities, and the tough resource allocation decisions.

Guiding Principles

• Strengthens strategic collaboration among Department headquarters and components, and with the Department’s external partners.
• Drives integration within the Department at a strategic level.
• Catalyzes the strategic vision for the homeland security enterprise, and ensures resources align with strategy.
• Champions strategic performance improvement and measurement throughout the Department.  

Responsibilities

Strategic Studies and Analysis Division

• Coordinates Department-wide strategic initiatives, provides independent, critical assessments of proposed strategic action, and develops written analytic products that examine key strategic issues.
• Is responsible for the Department's Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR), which provides a comprehensive strategic assessment of homeland security.
• Develops periodic long range strategic studies outside of the QHSR. By looking across the spectrum of homeland security threats and challenges facing the agency and the nation over the longer term, this division provides Department leadership with a broad view that looks beyond the five-year budgetary window.

Strategic Requirements, Capabilities, and Assessment Division

• Translates the Secretary’s strategic priorities into capstone planning products that drive component planning priorities, investment strategies, resource allocation decisions, and integration of Department activities.
• Oversees the Strategic Requirements Planning Process (SRPP), which defines strategic, cross-component requirements and capabilities needed to execute the Department’s mission. The SRPP identifies gaps in our ability to achieve needed capabilities, and addresses those gaps though the annual Integrated Planning Guidance (IPG). The IPG guides the five-year programming and budgeting process for the Department by identifying time-phased, measurable targets which address critical capability gaps and drive integration, unity of effort and efficiencies across the Department.
• Coordinates development of the Department's Strategic Plan.