e seek to engage globally, we must ensure a
seamless web of defense across the spectrum of engagement to protect
our citizens and interests both at home and abroad.

_Objective: Implement the National Strategy for Homeland Security_. The
establishment of the new Department of Homeland Security will help
mobilize and organize our Nation to secure the U.S. homeland from
terrorist attacks. A key to this task will be the National Strategy for
Homeland Security. The recommendations of the National Strategy for
Homeland Security and the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
compliment and reinforce each other. From enhancing the analytical
capabilities of the FBI and recapitalizing the U.S. Coast Guard, to
preventing terrorist use of WMD through better sensors and procedures
and integrating information sharing across the federal government, the
objectives in these national strategies are vital to our future success
in the war on terrorism.

_Objective: Attain domain awareness_. Today's world is sharply defined
by compression of both time and distance. Key to defending our Nation
is the effective knowledge of all activities, events, and trends within
any specified domain (air, land, sea, cyber) that could threaten the
safety, security, or environment of the United States and its populace.
This "domain awareness" enables identification of threats as early and
as distant from our borders--including territories and overseas
installations--as possible, to provide maximum time to determine the
optimal course of action.

Domain awareness is dependent upon having access to detailed knowledge
of our adversaries distilled through the fusion of intelligence,
information, and data across all agencies. It means providing our
operating forces--afloat, aloft, and ashore, foreign and domestic--with
a single integrated operating matrix of relevant information within
their specific domain of responsibility. Domain awareness supports
coordinated, integrated, and sustained engagement of the enemy across
the full spectrum of U.S. instruments of power.

The President has instructed the leaders of the FBI, Central
Intelligence, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to
develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all
threat information in a single location. The center is being created
because our government must have the very best information possible to
make sure that the right people are in the right pla