By Alice Lipowicz
3/02/2006
Government Computer News
The Homeland Security Department scored a D grade for emergency preparedness, critical infrastructure protection, redress for errors on the terrorist watch list, and overall procurement and contracting, according to the 2006 annual report card issued by Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee.
The department received C’s for port, aviation and transportation security, border security, chemical plant protection, information-sharing, science and technology, and cybersecurity. The highest grades were B-minuses for the Safecom interoperability program and for privacy protection.
“In the past three years, the department’s evolution has been a troubled one,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), senior Democrat on the committee, said in a news release.
While, thankfully, the department has not yet been tested by another terrorist attack, its performance fell well below expectations in the face of Mother Nature and Hurricane Katrina last year,” he wrote.
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