Drafting a policy-making framework

Drafting a policy-making framework which a homeland security strategist/practitioner  would use to effectively analyze an issue to enable informed evidence-based decision-making. The goal here is to develop your own functional framework which you can use in thinking about homeland security issues. In developing your framework, it can be helpful to start with a series of questions such as: what is the context of the issue?

What assumptions about the situation and the international/domestic environment can be made? How does this issue fit within the greater homeland security strategy? What are the priorities? Who can/should do something about this issue, and how should they proceed? Include three to five traits from The Architecture of Leadership video that the homeland security practitioner needs to be mindful of in designing and using this policy-making framework.

Then, apply that framework in a few paragraphs or a concise page to a recent or current homeland security issue or policy decision problem that you have identified in your reading of the textbook and/or other course material so far.