Excelsior HEM460 Transportation & Communication Systems Comparison Paper

Question Description

While there is no set design for this research paper assignment, some of these suggestions below should help you in working with your instructor to design a worthwhile project. With each of these, you should feel free to use as needed to establish as narrow and focused a research project as is possible:

Why are you interested in these sectors?

What makes these sectors critical?

What have been the history and current challenges in these sectors (e.g., in terms of protection or assurance/reliability; federal-local or public-private governance and relations such as in partnerships (Links to an external site.))?

If choosing two sectors, compare and contrast them on how they function, how their plans work, how Private-Public partnerships work, how resilient they are etc.?

If choosing only one sector, explore how the approach of the US differs from other countries in this sector?

What vulnerabilities does each sector have, and do you find commonalities in these (e.g., vis-à-vis cyber threats), or differences that you see in them?

What are the likeliest futures of the sectors you are reviewing, and how would you improve their protection or reliability/assurance (e.g., what do you see that could be done differently in them, better perhaps on some dimension of critical infrastructure functioning)?

To assist you in your research, you should review pages 6-7 for resources and journals of use to your research, and draw on works from journals and sites such as these:

https://cip.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Foundations-of-CISR_-Modules-Core-Syllabus_-August-2015.pdf (Links to an external site.)

U.S. Homeland Security Digital Library (Links to an external site.)

The International Journal of Critical Infrastructures (Links to an external site.)

Homeland Security Affairs (Links to an external site.)

The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (Links to an external site.)

International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Links to an external site.)

12–15 scholarly sources

10 PAGES

APA FORMAT Your final essay will be evaluated in terms of how thoroughly you: answer some of the questions above (working in conjunction with your instructor); use resources to document your main points; and properly cite referenced work. Your essay should address some of the questions above and should consist of at least 2,500 words of text (at least 10 pages of double-spaced and 12 point font of text). Use in-text citations and a reference list that will make up an additional page.

MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING

A title page;

Well-developed introductory paragraph explaining the purpose of the essay and briefly referencing some of the main points/contentions offered in the essay;

The body of the essay should consist of your effort to best answer the primary questions from the assignment prompt and your interaction with your instructor. It should consist of at least 2,500 words of text (at least 10 pages of double-spaced and 12 point font of text). it is essential that the responses to the questions in the prompt and your instructor be based upon scholarly readings and should remain at all times defensible (in an academic sense).

A concise concluding paragraph that briefly restates both the purpose of the essay as well as some of the primary argument offered by you, the essay’s author. Be sure the concluding paragraph does not introduce new information;

A list of all sources consulted the preparation of the essay. The essay should be formatted according to APA-style documentation. (Links to an external site.) This includes the format of the list of references.