Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security

Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security

Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security

This report presents the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) FY 2014 assessment of the major management and performance challenges facing DHS. It summarizes what the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) considers to be the most serious management and performance challenges facing the agency and briefly assesses the agency's progress in addressing those challenges, in the following areas: DHS Operations Integration; Acquisition Management; Financial Management; IT Management and Privacy Issues; Transportation Security; Border Security and Immigration Enforcement; Grants Management; Employee Accountability and Integrity; and Infrastructure Protection, Cybersecurity, and Insider Threat. This is a print on demand report.

This report presents the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) FY 2013 assessment of the major management and performance challenges facing DHS. It summarizes what the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) considers to be the most serious management and performance challenges and briefly assesses DHS's progress in addressing them. Some of the most persistent challenges arise from the effort to combine and coordinate diverse legacy agencies into a single, cohesive organization capable of fulfilling a broad, vital, and complex mission. DHS must continually seek to integrate management operations under an authoritative governing structure capable of effectively overseeing and guiding acquisitions, financial systems and reporting, info. tech. (IT) assets, and cybersecurity. In addition, DHS' mission to protect the Nation from domestic and international threats and respond to natural and manmade disasters is challenged by the unpredictable nature of these hazards. This is a print on demand report.