The DHS Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans recently completed its evaluation and review of all currently travel restricted and 180-day warning countries.  Notably, this review included new recommendations to remove from travel restrictions certain countries that have demonstrated significant compliance improvement.

In this document, Undersecretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans affirms and ratifies his prior delegable actions as Acting Secretary and certain delegable actions of others as limited herein.

This January 11, 2021 order designates the order of succession for the Secretary of Homeland Security.

In this delegation, the Acting Secretary for Homeland Security vests authority in the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans as specified herein.

The Arctic’s expanded relevance, coupled with the Department’s significant regional investments, requires DHS to have a unified, deliberate, and forward-looking approach. The Strategic Approach for Arctic Homeland Security fully leverages the broad range of DHS authorities, capabilities, capacity and partnerships to achieve the goals laid out in this document. 

On January 12, Acting Secretary Gaynor issued a memorandum expanding the period of the 59^th Presidential Inauguration National Special Security Event to begin on January 13, 2021.

The DHS Strategic Action Plan to Counter the Threat Posed by the People’s Republic of China describes how the Department will continue to leverage the entire Homeland Security Enterprise to respond to the myriad threats posed by the Beijing regime to the American people.

This Trade and Economic Security (TES) report represents a collective understanding of U.S. economic security by DHS and is intended to drive policy actions across the government to strengthen U.S. global economic standing and secure supply chains.

In accordance with the Federal Digital Government Strategy, DHS.gov is now making available PDF copies of our Google Analytics monthly Web Metrics and Search reports.

DHS S&T, Office of National Laboratories (ONL) manages the Department’s use of its research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) laboratories and the Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories’ infrastructure, technical expertise and capabilities. ONL’s work brings significant value and impact to the homeland security mission space.