Harnessing the Valuable Experience and Resources of the Private Sector for the Public Good: Innovative Public-Private Partnerships

摘要

Private sector outreach plays a fundamental role in forming and fostering partnerships between the private and public sectors. The major goal of these partnerships is to efficiently and effectively provide technologies, products and services to address the mission critical need of securing the Homeland of the United States. The Private Sector Office in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pleased to provide the resources contained in this book to our partners so that they may better understand how to get involved with DHS. There are several opportunities to learn about our requirements process, role of DHS, and how organizations like the Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) use this information to address the needs of the seven operating components (TSA, CBP, USCIS, ICE, USSS, FEMA, and USCG), first responders and eighteen sectors of the critical infrastructure/key resource owners and operators. This resource also contains information on S&Ts Commercialization initiatives that foster mutually beneficial public-private partnerships in order to field products, technologies and/or services to help meet the many needs and challenges of the public and private sectors as well as the first responder community. This book also demonstrates how sharing information on detailed operational requirements and conservative estimates of potential available markets can lead to the cooperative development of needed capabilities.