Quadrennial Homeland Security Review
Subtitle: 2010 reports addressed many required elements, but budget planning not yet completed
By: [David C. Maurer]
Contributors: United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Rules and practice; Evaluation; Management; National security; Planning; United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States
Other titles: 2010 reports addressed many required elements, but budget planning not yet completed
Description: In February 2010, DHS issued its first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) report, outlining a strategic framework for homeland security to guide the activities of homeland security partners, including federal, state, local, and tribal government agencies; the private sector; and nongovernmental organizations.The report identified five homeland security missions: preventing terrorism and enhancing security; securing and managing our borders; enforcing and administering our immigration laws; safeguarding and securing cyberspace; and ensuring resilience to disasters, and goals and objectives to be achieved within each mission. The QHSR report also identified threats and challenges confronting U.S. homeland security, strategic objectives for strengthening the homeland security enterprise, and federal agencies' roles and responsibilities for homeland security. In addition to the QHSR report, in July 2010 DHS issued a report on the results of its Bottom- Up Review (BUR), a departmentwide assessment to align DHS's programmatic activities, such as investigating drug smuggling and inspecting cargo at ports of entry, and its organizational structure to the missions and goals identified in the QHSR. The BUR report described DHS's current activities within each of the five QHSR missions and two broad DHS functional areas that complement the homeland security mission, department management and accountability. The BUR report also identified priority initiatives to strengthen its activities. This report addresses the extent to which the QHSR and BUR reports addressed the reporting elements specified for the QHSR in the 9/11 Commission Act.
Notes: Title from p.1 screen (GAO, viewed on Dec. 21, 2010).

"December 16, 2010."

"GAO-11-153R."

Includes bibliographical references.

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