Homeland Security Watch

The House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing today to look at SBINet, DHS’s major border security integration project, at which the DHS Inspector General released their first review of DHS’s work on the project. The report looks at two types of risk to the project: (a) organizational capacity for management and oversight, and (b) operational requirements and performance management, and finds DHS not fully up to speed in some areas, but taking the steps to remedy any current deficiencies. Overall, I think the report is a clean bill of health for SBINet in its relatively early stages, but given its likely cost it’s important for the IG to continue to closely monitor it.

More on the report and hearing in this GovExec article.