Case Study #2 – Budget Issues Instructions
Imagine that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) soliciting interagency responses to two proposed reorganizations which cite the change in the definition of national intelligence in the IRTPA and the increasing integration of homeland security elements into a national system for countering terrorists and other international criminal organizations. The first issue is whether or not funding for all the various “non-NIP” intelligence related activities within the Department of Homeland Security “Intelligence Enterprise” (e.g. those in CBP, ICE, TSA, etc.) should be included within the National Intelligence Program and thereby brought under the financial management control of the Director of National Intelligence. The second is whether the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) should be moved to the Department of Homeland Security and its funding included as part of the DHS NIP.
You will each be assigned a hypothetical “boss.” (Customer Note: My boss hypothetical boss is the Attorney General of the United States) This “boss” asks you to prepare a one page position paper (typed single space, ‘Times New Roman’ 12 point font) for each of these two issues, explaining that “I want to know whether I should support this. I want to be assured this will improve our mission effectiveness and will protect our organization’s equities.”

For Case Study II submit two one page position papers, (typed single space, ‘Times New Roman’ 12 point font), rather than its close cousin, a “briefing paper.” While academic citation is usually not a feature of staff work, a grading rubric “minimal” in Academic Sources) requires you research and cite at least three references (in total for for both papers) using the APA citation style in-text notation with page numbers. I’ve adapted guidance from APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), for in text citations from sources that do not contain pages. Instead, please use the best available substitute identifying element that makes sense: a paragraph, a chapter number, a section number, a table number, or something else. Some works (like Congressional Bills) may use special location identifiers. A last resort may be the position in a line count. Attach in a single separate page a briefly annotated List of References for those cited, each with a full bibliographic entry. List only those references explicitly cited in the papers. Any non-course references used must be from online sources and must be traceable or they cannot be used. For any reference not readily and freely accessible on the web, attach a short extract of the section cited to the end of the papers, following the Reference List. (Not included in the page count).