Homeland Security Information Sharing
Preparedness is also defined and more commonly understood by the public as an end-state. The assertion that organization is prepared for homeland security emergencies notes of the-states meaning of preparedness. Palfrey argues that the cycle framework is more appropriate for homeland security practitioners than the end-state framework because preparedness depends on enactment within an ever-shifting social context. This study explores the government premise that homeland security information sharing supports preparedness using both the end-state meaning of preparedness (tested in Hypothesis 1B above), as well as the four-part cycle of preparedness described by Pelfrey. The second phase of the preparedness cycle, awareness, is accounted for