(From WLS)
Full report at: http://www.csis.org/hs/041213_dhsv2.pdf
DHS v 2.O: Rethinking the Department of Homeland Security, co-authored by
the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Heritage
Foundation, was the product of a task force of experts from academia,
research centers, the private sector, and congressional staff. The
evaluation used 4 criteria to evaluate whether DHS could meet its mandate
from the Homeland Security Act of 2002: management, roles and missions,
authorities, and resources.
Key recommendations include:
� creating an Undersecretary for Policy, to improve policy making
� a "flattened" organizational structure, consolidating agencies
with overlapping missions, eliminating directors of border and
transportation security, preparedness and response, and information analysis
and infrastructure protection (with those agencies reporting directly to the
secretary via the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security).eliminating
wasteful spending by a "risk-based mechanism for department-wide resource
allocation and grantmaking and by developing pre-determined 'response
packages' to respond to catastrophic terrorism.""Clarifying authorities and
national leadership roles for bio-defense, cyberdefense, and critical
infrastructure protection."
� Improving departmental oversight by having the DHS report to a
single permanent oversight committee in the House and the Senate
rationalizing congressional committee structure and establishing (vs. the
nearly 80 committees that now have their fingers in the pie).
The report issues yet another call to change the formulas used to allocate
spending to one based on risk (Congress has deferred action on that
contentious issue until the next sessionOverall, it said "Congress and the
Administration should develop a comprehensive plan to restructure the
department, including establishing a nonpartisan commission to review the
performance of the department and assess its capacity to fulfill the
missions outlined in the Homeland Security Act in the areas of management,
missions, authorities, and resources and to report back within six months."
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