1 4 Rough Draft Research Paper Francisco Leon Grantham University INT460 Global Logistics Mgmt. Instructor: Mr. Gary Reinke Due Date:6/14/2022 The Homeland Security Act of 2002 set up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which the Secretary of Homeland Security now runs. The Department tries to make the United States safer by keeping it safe from all the different threats it faces. DHS's primary goals are to fight terrorism and other security threats and to keep borders and cyberspace safe. The Department's mission is also to protect critical infrastructure, keep the economy of the United States strong and safe, improve readiness and flexibility, and help its workers and the whole Department. One of the Department's most important goals is to protect Americans from terrorism and other threats to homeland security. This is done by stopping international criminal organizations, groups, or individuals from doing terrorist or criminal acts that threaten the Homeland. The Transportation Security Administration is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Its main job is to protect a country's transportation systems and help people and businesses move around freely. TSA uses a risk-based strategy and works with people in the transportation industry, law enforcement, and the intelligence community to keep U.S. transportation systems safe. Even though airport security is the TSA's top priority, it also takes care of security issues on highways, railroads, ports, intermodal freight facilities, mass transit systems, pipelines, and other places. This paper will mainly talk about why the Transportation Security Administration should be gotten rid of, such as the fact that it is expensive and not very good at managing logistics and transportation systems in the United States. The Transportation Security Administration should be dissolved because it costs too much money. The federal agency's budget is estimated to be $7.78 billion annually, making it a pricey one (Ciaramella, 2018). Taxpayers should not have to pay billions of dollars yearly for an inefficient government agency. Even though the TSA's budget increased by 60% a few years ago, it has not made airports safer. The TSA has spent the most money on the controversial Advanced Imaging Technology devices, such as the full-body scanners, which can see through people's clothes and raise serious privacy concerns. AITs are a controversial investment because of how much they cost, how much traffic they cause at airports, and how uncertain their detection benefits are (Hawley, 2018). SPOT is another TSA project that costs money but seems to have few benefits. It has about 3,000 officers working at 160 airports to spot people who might be criminals based on things like stress signals. Even though over $1 billion has been spent on SPOT over the past 10 years, it has been found that known terrorists went through airports while TSA was running SPOT, and not a sing ...

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Rough Draft Research Paper
Francisco Leon
Grantham University
INT460 Global Logistics Mgmt.
Instructor: Mr. Gary Reinke
Due Date:6/14/2022
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 set up the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS), which the Secretary of Homeland
Security now runs. The Department tries to make the United
States safer by keeping it safe from all the different threats it
faces. DHS's primary goals are to fight terrorism and other
security threats and to keep borders and cyberspace safe. The

2. Department's mission is also to protect critical infrastructure,
keep the economy of the United States strong and safe, improve
readiness and flexibility, and help its workers and the whole
Department. One of the Department's most important goals is to
protect Americans from terrorism and other threats to homeland
security. This is done by stopping international criminal
organizations, groups, or individuals from doing terrorist or
criminal acts that threaten the Homeland. The Transportation
Security Administration is part of the Department of Homeland
Security. Its main job is to protect a country's transportation
systems and help people and businesses move around freely.
TSA uses a risk-based strategy and works with people in the
transportation industry, law enforcement, and the intelligence
community to keep U.S. transportation systems safe. Even
though airport security is the TSA's top priority, it also takes
care of security issues on highways, railroads, ports, intermodal
freight facilities, mass transit systems, pipelines, and other
places. This paper will mainly talk about why the
Transportation Security Administration should be gotten rid of,
such as the fact that it is expensive and not very good at
managing logistics and transportation systems in the United
States.
The Transportation Security Administration should be
dissolved because it costs too much money. The federal
agency's budget is estimated to be $7.78 billion annually,
making it a pricey one (Ciaramella, 2018). Taxpayers should not
have to pay billions of dollars yearly for an inefficient
government agency. Even though the TSA's budget increased by
60% a few years ago, it has not made airports safer. The TSA
has spent the most money on the controversial Advanced
Imaging Technology devices, such as the full-body scanners,
which can see through people's clothes and raise serious privacy
concerns. AITs are a controversial investment because of how
much they cost, how much traffic they cause at airports, and
how uncertain their detection benefits are (Hawley, 2018).

3. SPOT is another TSA project that costs money but seems to
have few benefits. It has about 3,000 officers working at 160
airports to spot people who might be criminals based on things
like stress signals. Even though over $1 billion has been spent
on SPOT over the past 10 years, it has been found that known
terrorists went through airports while TSA was running SPOT,
and not a single terrorist was caught. Also, the cost of the
Federal Air Marshal Service has gone up from $486 million to
about $942 million and setting aside first-class seats for the air
marshals costs airlines an extra $220 million per year.
The Transportation Security Administration is also very
slow, making it hard for the agency to make transportation
systems more secure (Smith, 2020). When the TSA oversees
airport security, many people complain about how long it takes
to get through the security checkpoint. Some people miss their
flights because it takes too long for the TSA to finish its
annoying procedures. For example, airport checks seem to take
a long time, which causes delays that make people unhappy and
cause businesses to lose money (Vasel, 2016). Millions of
people go through TSA checkpoints every day, which makes for
long lines, especially when traveling for the holidays. Even with
new technologies like millimeter-wave imaging and CT
scanners, airport security has not changed much.
The Transportation Security Administration should also be
dissolved because it does not do its job well. Research has
shown that the TSA does not always keep Americans safe
because it works (Lowe, 2016). This federal agency has no
reason to improve its screening procedures because it has not
caught a single terrorist since it was created. After almost a
decade, setting up the TSA and making airport screenings part
of the federal government were both big mistakes for the
country. Auditors have found that the TSA's screening is not
any better than private screening and may even be worse. The
TSA has continued to get a bad name because of how it is run,

4. its investments, and security mistakes. There had been several
alarming screening failures, like when screeners in Los Angeles
and Chicago missed 60–70% of fake bombs in testing in 2006.
Even though the TSA spent much money and caused much
trouble for passengers, there were nearly 25,000 security
breaches at U.S. airports in its first few years. In recent years,
the safety of travelers may have had less to do with how well
TSA airport screeners did their jobs and more to do with the
lack of terrorists in the United States and different security
measures in aviation.
In conclusion, the Transportation Security Administration
should be disbanded because it is costly, prolonged, and highly
ineffective in the logistics and management of transportation
systems in the United States. To keep airports safe and make
them safer, every airline company should take responsibility
and follow safety rules while taking care of their customers.
Airlines should do regular security audits, watch security
videotapes, do a mobile patrol, improve screening lanes, hire
trained staff, and add pre-security checkpoints.

5. References
· Ciaramella, C.J. (2018). Abolish the TSA. The Washington
Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/16
/abolish-the-tsa/
· Hawley, K. (2018). Why airport security is broken—And how
to fix it. The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303815404577
335783535660546
· Lowe, K. A. (2016). Safety in the sky: Will reforming and
restructuring the TSA improve our security or merrily infringe
on our rights. J. Air L. & Com., 81, 291.
· Smith, A. (2020). Research finds TSA may have missed
thousands of firearms at checkpoints in 2014-2016. INFORMS
Journal on Applied Analytics, 4(3), 1-5.
· Vasel, K. (2016). Who’s to blame for the long airport security
lines? CNN Money.
https://money.cnn.com/2016/05/18/pf/blame-for-airport-
security-lines/index.html
Week 5 - Assignment
Blueprint for Healthy Aging, Plan to Address the Problem And
Facilitate Healthy Aging And Plan to Measure
Progress/Effectiveness
[WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8]
Your written assignment this week is to develop a two to three
page draft of the fourth and fifth sections of your Blueprint for
Healthy Aging, Plan to Address the Problem and Facilitate
Healthy Aging and Plan to Measure Progress/Effectiveness.
For this section, you will identify a plan/strategy to address the

6. specific problem/challenge addressed in your Blueprint for
Healthy Aging. You should identify a specific goal or outcome
(or set of goals and outcomes) reflecting a change or solution to
the problem which will reflect a model of “healthy aging.”
Next, outline your plan, as concretely and specifically as
possible, to address the problem. Your plan should be informed
and supported by and include application of relevant theories
and concepts covered in the course as well as existing research.
If policy, legal or regulatory changes or proposals are deemed
necessary (as identified in Week 4), you should discuss the
specific changes/proposals and include justification for each
recommendation. This section should also include analysis and
discussion of potential challenges or barriers to implementation
of the proposal, including material from the readings covered
this week (e.g., ageism, individual and cultural values, etc.) as
well as recommendations regarding solutions to overcome or
address each barrier or challenge identified.
Next, outline your plan to measure progress/effectiveness: In
this section, you will identify strategies to measure outcomes,
progress and effectiveness of the plan. Specifically, discuss how
the implemented changes will be measured to determine their
effectiveness in addressing the problem/challenge and
promoting healthy aging?
Required Resources
Text
Bengtson, V. L., Gans, D., Putney, N. M., & Silverstein, M.
(Eds.). (2016). Handbook of theories of aging (3rd ed.).
Springer.
· Chapter 27: Successful Aging
· Chapter 28: Coping, Optimal Aging, and Resilience in
Sociocultural Context
· Chapter 29: Religion, Spirituality, and Aging
Articles
Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I., & Muraco, A. (2010). Aging and
sexual orientation: A 25-year review of the literature. Research
on Aging, 32(3), 372-413.

7. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027509360355
Jopp, D., & Smith, J. (2006). Resources and life-management
strategies as determinants of successful aging: on the protective
effect of selection, optimization, and compensation. Psychology
and Aging, 21(2), 253- 265. https://doi.org/
North, M. S., & Fiske, S. T. (2013). Act your (old) age
prescriptive, ageist biases over succession, consumption, and
identity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(6),
720-734. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213480043
Zhang, Y. B., Harwood, J., Williams, A., Ylänne-McEwen, V.,
Wadleigh, P. M., & Thimm, C. (2006). The portrayal of older
adults in advertising: A cross-national review. Journal of
Language and Social Psychology, 25(3), 264-282.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X06289479
Multimedia
TED. (2012, April 19). Laura Carstensen: Older people are
happier (Links to an external site.) [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gkdzkVb uVA
· In the 20th century we added an unprecedented number of
years to our lifespans, but is the quality of life as good?
Surprisingly, yes! At TEDxWomen psychologist Laura
Carstensen shows research that demonstrates that as people get
older they become happier, more content, and have a more
positive outlook on the world.
Recommended Resources
Books
Cisneros, H., Dyer-Chamberlain, M., & Hickie, J. (Eds.).
(2012). Independent for life: Homes and neighborhoods for an
aging America. University of Texas Press.
Irving, P. (2014). The upside of aging: How long life Is
changing the world of health, work, innovation, policy and
purpose. John Wiley & Sons.
Articles
Bullock, K., Crawford, S. L., & Tennstedt, S. L. (2003).
Employment and caregiving: Exploration of African American

8. caregivers. Social Work, 48(2), 150-162.
https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/48.2.150
Multimedia
USC Leonard Davis School of Geronotoly. (2008, September
11). USC Davis gerontology – Bob Knight (Links to an external
site.) [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf34mvLW71I
· Dr. Bob Knight, professor of gerontology, discusses the
subject of sex and aging, focusing on such topics as dementia,
Viagra, and misperceptions.
ChangingAging. (2014, April 28). The roots and consequences
of ageism in America (Links to an external site.) [Video].
YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdqVoxT-caI
· What is the root of ageism in our society? Dr. Bill Thomas
argues that our society venerates and idealizes youth while
ignoring elders with real lived experience and making them
virtually invisible.