Administrative security domain

For the State Dinner analogy, it would be assumed that the local government has the final word in terms of the implementation of the security for the event. One official, or one department or group within a department, would be made responsible for managing the event security. Let's denote this entity as the State Dinner Security Management Team (SDSMT). It is likely that there would be other groups, possibly not affiliated with the SDSMT, which would be delegated the overseeing of security management for a specific aspect of the proceedings. For instance, one of the responsibilities of the contracting agency would be to receive bids for the food services. The contracting agency would have received, as part of its delegation of authority, the guidelines for a food services provider. It would be the duty of the contracting agency to ensure such guidelines are met by the selected food services contractor. If there was a group providing certain types of services...