Homeland Security: Key Elements to Unify Efforts Are Underway but Uncertainty Remains

摘要

To determine the extent to which homeland security efforts are unified, we reviewed documents and interviewed officials from 12 key federal agencies, associations representing selected state and local government officials, research organizations recognized for their work on terrorism or homeland security or both, and selected associations representing corporations that own key infrastructure. We also examined related crosscutting issuesour work on combating terrorism, the year-2000 (Y2K) challenge, and the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993to identify key elements, such as central leadership and a clearly defined strategy, that are critical to unifying efforts and that could be instructive in developing homeland security approaches. Further information on our scope and methodology appears in appendix I.