DHS Blamed for Failure To Combine Watch Lists
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The government's effort to consolidate federal agencies' 12 terrorist lists has all but failed, partly because the Department of Homeland Security has abandoned its responsibility to take the lead on the project.
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The failure on Friday of a computer system used to help track airplanes flying across the U.S. led to delays and cancelled flights -- and federal officials still aren't sure what went wrong.
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Description: The Department of Homeland Security has been the target of criticism since its establishment two years ago. One of the priorities for Bernard Kerik as its new chief would be to facilitate the process of information sharing among agencies.
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You couldn't make it up - maybe they can The feds at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have this week called in some self-described "deviant" consultants to aid them in the battle against terrorists, illegal immigrants, smugglers et al.â¦
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Last week, Congress acted to reorganize the nation&#39;s spy agencies even as the top US arms inspector outlined massive intelligence failures about prewar Iraq.
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U.S. aviation officials failed to  respond to dozens of warnings of a possible terrorist threat  months before Sept. 11, 2001, according to a previously  undisclosed report by the panel that probed the attacks.
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AUGUST 20, 2004  - As the debate about adding a national intelligence director proceeds, two government reports are shedding new light on an existing dilemma: If DHS CIO Steven Cooper can&#39;t wrestle the agency&#39;s sprawling bureaucracy into ...
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is hampered by having to report to 88 congressional committees and subcommittees, the Washington Post said.
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Government lawyers have hampered investigations into waste and fraud at the Homeland Security Department, officials told Congress on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to take several basic steps to protect the nation's cyber infrastructure, including a year-plus delay in naming an assistant secretary for cybersecurity, lawmakers and other critics said Wednesday.
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A congressional report blames a litany of shortcomings at the Transportation Security Administration for security problems on a Web site set up in 2006 to help travelers remove their names from terrorist watch-lists.
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A $1.2 billion program to deploy new radiation monitors to screen trucks, cars and cargo containers for signs of nuclear devices has been delayed by questions over whether Department of Homeland Security officials misled Congress about the effectiveness of the detectors.
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The U.S. government has squandered millions of dollars intended for police training programs in Iraq because of rampant problems overseeing contractors, according to federal reviews released yesterday.
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According to a new U.S. Department of  Homeland Security report, inadequate financing and training  have left many department officers in Saudi Arabia ill-prepared  to enforce a program intended to stop Saudi Arabia terror  suspects from receiving U.S. visas, the New York Times reported  on Friday.
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A long-delayed upgrade to the airline watch list system faces another three-year wait, a top Homeland Security official says. But this time the government really has it figured out. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Outdated charts may have been partially at fault for the undersea grounding of a U.S. nuclear submarine last weekend, according to a U.S. agency that analyzes spy satellite imagery and produces maps and charts for the Defense Department.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to take several basic steps to protect the nation's cyber infrastructure, including a year-plus delay in naming an assistant secretary for cybersecurity, lawmakers and other critics said Wednesday. Lawmakers and representatives of cybersecurity trade groups questioned why the DHS has failed to fill the high-level cybersecurity position after DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff announced plans to create the position in July 2005. The delay in hiring an assistant secretary shows a "lack of cybersecurity leadership" at the DHS, said Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, during a congressional hearing. But DHS is working hard to hire an assistant secretary for cybersecurity, and the agency has continued to make significant progress in improving cybersecurity in the past year, George Foresman, the DHS under secretary for preparedness, told the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. He spends about a quarter of his time working on cybersecurity issues, while Andy Purdy, acting director of the DHS National Cyber Security Division, spends about three quarters of his time on cybersecurity issues, Foresman said. Some potential candidates for the job have withdrawn their applications because of private work commitments, Foresman said. Still, the agency may be close to naming an assistant secretary, he said. "Had we been inactive the whole time, I think there'd be grave concern," Foresman said. "But I think we've been in overdrive." Some lawmakers and witnesses seemed to disagree. Representative Anna Eshoo, a California Democrat, said the lack of a top cybersecurity leader at DHS means the issue is not a top priority. "Simply put, we're putting ourselves in a real ditch here," she said. Congress may have to get involved in the assistant secretary's hiring, said David Powner, director of IT management issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which has criticized the DHS cybersecurity effort in a series of reports. "If they can't figure it out soon, perhaps you can help them," Powner told lawmakers. A June report from GAO found that the DHS had not yet completed a plan involving public and private resources for recovery of the Internet after a major cyberattack, added Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat. Paul Kurtz, executive director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) trade group, called on Congress to pass data breach legislation awaiting a vote on the House floor. CSIA also recommended that Congress better define the roles government agencies such as the DHS and the Department of Defense should play after a major cyberattack. "There is little strategic direction or leadership from the federal government in the area of information security," Kurtz said. "We must move beyond philosophy and statements of aspirations to defining priorities and programs." The U.S. government has the responsibility of setting priorities and coordinating response to cyberattacks, he added. "Let me be clear -- this is not a call for regulation or intervention," he said. "This is a call for leadership."