Was ist in einem Namen?

Noting that, within its collection of "Component Agencies" to "protect the homeland," the Department of Homeland Security includes "The Directorate for National Protection and Programs," "The Directorate for Science and Technology" and "The Directorate for Management," you wonder if the agency's minions are tone-deaf or if someone, perhaps in the Directorate of Nomenclature, who was reading Orwell and Huxley at the moment of the agency's christening, has a terrific sense of humor.