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Transformation of the FBI to Meet the Domestic Intelligence Needs of the United States
"In this thesis, the author presents an analysis of the challenges which confronted the United States government and the intelligence community after September 11, 2001 and examines some of the criticisms of government agency action, specifically the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the years prior to the terrorist attacks on the homeland. The author provides a historical overview of the FBI prior to September 11, 2001 and then discusses both the transformational challenges and successes encountered by the FBI post 9/11 in an effort to create a predictive intelligence capability within the agency while maintaining its current statutory responsibilities as the nation's primary federal investigative and law enforcement agency. The thesis examines both military transformational processes, as well as the British Model of Domestic Intelligence, and provides recommendations relevant to the ongoing and strategic transformational efforts by the FBI."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Smith, Eric B.
2009-03
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Background on Housing Refinance Roundtable [April 9, 2009]
"President Obama will host a roundtable discussion this morning [April 9, 2009] in the Roosevelt Room about the impact of historically low interest rates. Attending the meeting will be a handful of households who have re-financed their homes and benefited from lower mortgage payments, as well as members of President Obama's economic team. Our Financial Stability Plan will address the key problems at the heart of the current crisis and get our economy back on track. A critical piece of that effort is Making Home Affordable, a plan to stabilize our housing market and help up to 7 to 9 million Americans reduce their monthly mortgage payments through modifications or refinancing to more affordable levels."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-04-09
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Weekly Address: President Obama Says Nations Must Unite to Overcome Global Challenges [April 11, 2009]
"In his weekly address [April 11, 2009], President Barack Obama extended his best wishes to everyone celebrating this week's Passover and Easter holidays and called on nations around the world to come together to solve the current trials facing the world. On the heels of his weeklong trip overseas, the President said he believes it is important to acknowledge no single nation can solve global problems like a recession, international terrorism, climate change, or nuclear proliferation. But, working with other nations, the United States can lead the way in overcoming these challenges."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-04-11
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Guide to Conducting Privacy Impact Assessments for State, Local, and Tribal Information Sharing Initiatives [April 2009]
"Greater information-sharing capabilities and opportunities are accompanied by equally greater responsibilities for protecting the privacy of the information being used and exchanged. [...]. To assist with this critical but often daunting task, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), via the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global), is creating tools and resources to help state, local, and tribal practitioners develop privacy policies. This Guide adds another resource to that toolkit, providing a methodology for state, local, and tribal information-sharing initiatives to analyze risks related to ensuring the privacy of the personally identifiable data that they collect. This risk assessment--more commonly known as a privacy impact assessment or PIA--is a crucial first step in successful privacy policy development."
United States. Department of Justice. Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative; United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Department of Justice
2009-04
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Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Are Taking Actions to Track Contracts and Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, Statement of John P. Hutton, Director Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives
"The Departments of Defense (DOD) and State (State) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have relied extensively on contractors to support troops and civilian personnel and carry out reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. While recognizing the benefits of using contactors, [sic] GAO and others have noted the risks and challenges associated with relying on contractors. To help increase contractor oversight, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 directed DOD, State, and USAID to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan that identified a database to track information on contractor personnel and contracts performed in the two countries. In their July 2008 MOU, the agencies designated the Synchronized Pre-Deployment and Operational Tracker database (SPOT) as their system for tracking the required information. GAO's testimony addresses how contractor personnel and contract information can aid agencies in managing contracts and the status of SPOT's implementation. It is drawn from GAO's ongoing and prior contingency contracting work. This work involved meeting with agency officials, including those in Iraq, and reviewing agency documents. GAO obtained agency views on previously unreported information, which the agencies generally agreed with."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2009-04-01
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Aviation Security: TSA Has Completed Key Activities Associated With Implementing Secure Flight, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Mitigate Risks, Report to Congressional Committees
"To enhance aviation security, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) developed a program-known as Secure Flight-to assume from air carriers the function of matching passenger information against terrorist watch-list records. In accordance with a mandate in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008, GAO's objective was to assess the extent to which TSA met the requirements of 10 statutory conditions related to the development of the Secure Flight program. GAO is required to review the program until all 10 conditions are met. In September 2008, DHS certified that it had satisfied all 10 conditions. To address this objective, GAO identified key activities related to each of the 10 conditions; identified federal guidance and best practices that are relevant to successfully meeting each condition; analyzed whether TSA had demonstrated, through program documentation and oral explanation, that the guidance was followed and best practices were met; and assessed the risks associated with not fully following applicable guidance and meeting best practices. GAO recommends that DHS take action to periodically assess the performance of the Secure Flight system's name-matching capabilities and results. DHS concurred with GAO's recommendation."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2009-05
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Time Critical Conventional Strike from Strategic Standoff
"As requested in the Terms of Reference (TOR) the Task Force was asked to evaluate a complete range of time-critical conventional strike options within several realistic scenarios. The Task Force tried to explore and illuminate various attributes associated with the different means of accomplishing a time-critical conventional strike from strategic standoff capability. The TOR pinpointed four parameters of interest to focus on: target set, accuracy, basing, and kill mechanism. In addition, the Task Force was asked to assess each alternative strike capability using four principal measures of effectiveness and issue specific recommendations for preferred approaches based on specific dominate requirements. The final report addresses each tasking in the Terms of Reference and offers findings and recommendations derived from a scenario-based analysis. The findings and recommendations include both strike options as well as key enablers that must be effective if a time critical strike from strategic standoff is to be successful. Recommendations are provided in the areas of ISR; planning and exercising; munitions; hardened underground facility defeat; SOF; dynamic fire control; air-breathing delivery vehicles; integration and exercising of combined operations C3I."
United States. Defense Science Board. Task Force on Time Critical Conventional Strike from Strategic Standoff
2009-03
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Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Issues Regarding the Inclusion of Refined Petroleum Products as Part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Statement of Frank Rusco, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Testimony before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate
This document contains the statement of Frank Rusco of the GAO before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on May 12, 2009 on the topic of the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve. "Since the SPR, the largest emergency crude oil reserve in the world, was created in 1975 a number of arguments have been made for and against including refined petroleum products. Some of the arguments for including refined products in the SPR are: the United States' increased reliance on imports and resulting exposure to supply disruptions or unexpected increases in demand elsewhere in the world, possible reduced refinery capacity during weather related supply disruptions, time needed for petroleum product imports to reach all regions of the United States in case of an emergency, and port capacity bottlenecks in the United States, which limit the amount of petroleum products that can be imported quickly during emergencies. For example, the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that the concentration of refineries on the Gulf Coast and resulting damage to pipelines left the United States to rely on imports of refined product from Europe. Consequently, regions experienced a shortage of gasoline and prices rose. Conversely, some of the arguments against including refined products in the SPR are: the surplus of refined products in Europe, the high storage costs of refined products, the use of a variety of different type of blends of refined products-'boutique' fuels-in the United States, and policy alternatives that may diminish reliance on oil. For example, Europe has a surplus of gasoline products because of a shift to diesel engines, which experts say will continue for the foreseeable future. Europe's surplus of gasoline is available to the United States in emergencies and provided deliveries following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005."
United States. Government Accountability Office
Rusco, Frank
2009-05-12
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Budget Fact Sheet and Link [May 7, 2009]
This fact sheet on the budget, released by the White House press office on May 7, 2009, states "[t]he President's 2010 Budget seeks to usher in a new era of responsibility -- an era in which we not only do what we must to save and create new jobs and lift our economy out of recession, but in which we also lay a new foundation for long-term growth and prosperity. Making long overdue investments and reforms in education so that every child can compete in the global economy, undertaking health care reform so that we can control costs while boosting coverage and quality, and investing in renewable sources of energy so that we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil -- these all are key pillars of this new foundation. Another is fiscal discipline. We cannot put our nation on a course for long-term growth with uncontrollable deficits and debt, and we no longer can afford to tolerate investments in programs that are outdated, duplicative, ineffective, or wasteful."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-07
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EPA Announces $10.3 Million in New Grants for Contaminated Land Cleanup, Economic Development in Michigan [May 7, 2009]
On May 7, 2009, in a White House press release, "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced … [that] the availability of an estimated $10.3 million in grants bolstered by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to help communities in Michigan clean up sites known as 'brownfields' which may be contaminated by hazardous chemicals or pollutants. Michigan is the top recipient of these funds, receiving more total grant money than any other state in this new announcement. The grants, which include $2.5 million from the Recovery Act and $7.8 million from the EPA brownfields general program funding, will help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive business and community institutions."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-07
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Cultural Dimensions of Strategy and Policy
"There has been a growing recognition in the post-Cold War era that culture has increasingly become a factor in determining the course of today's complex and interconnected world. The U.S. experience in Afghanistan and Iraq extended this trend to national security and military operations. There is also a growing recognition by the national security community that culture is an important factor at the policy and strategy levels. Cultural proficiency at the policy and strategic levels means the ability to consider history, values, ideology, politics, religion, and other cultural dimensions and assess their potential effect on policy and strategy. The Analytical Cultural Framework for Strategy and Policy (ACFSP) is one systematic and analytical approach to the vital task of viewing the world through many lenses. The ACFSP identifies basic cultural dimensions that seem to be of fundamental importance in determining such behavior and thus are of importance in policy and strategy formulation and outcomes. These dimensions are (1) Identity, or the basis for defining identity and its linkage to interests; (2) Political Culture, or the structure of power and decisionmaking; and (3) Resilience, or the capacity or ability to resist, adapt or succumb to external forces. Identity is the most important, because it ultimately determines purpose, values and interests that form the foundation for policy and strategy to attain or preserve those interests."
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Kim, Jiyul
2009-05-18
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Foreign Assistance: Measures to Prevent Inadvertent Payments to Terrorists under Palestinian Aid Programs Have Been Strengthened, but Some Weaknesses Remain, Report to Congressional Committees
"The U.S. government is one of the largest donors to Palestinians. It provided nearly $575 million in assistance in fiscal year 2008. This assistance is provided through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and through contributions to international organizations, primarily the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The Department of State (State) oversees U.S. contributions to UNRWA. To help ensure that U.S. funds for these programs are not provided to individuals or entities engaged in terrorist activities, USAID and State must comply with restrictions under U.S. law. GAO was asked to assess the extent to which USAID has complied with its antiterrorism policies and procedures and assess State's and UNRWA's policies and procedures to support conformance with U.S. statutory conditions. GAO reviewed U.S. and UNRWA documents; interviewed USAID, State, and UNRWA officials; and conducted fieldwork in Israel, Jerusalem, and Jordan. To strengthen compliance, GAO recommends that the Administrator of USAID improve monitoring of subawards. GAO also recommends that the Secretary of State consider taking additional steps to oversee UNRWA's conformance with U.S. conditions on funding. USAID, State, and UNRWA said they are taking actions to implement GAO's recommendations."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2009-05
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DoD Personnel Clearances: Comprehensive Timeliness Reporting, Complete Clearance Documentation, and Quality Measures Are Needed to Further Improve the Clearance Process, Report to Congressional Committees
"The Department of Defense (DOD) personnel security clearance program has been on GAO's high-risk list since 2005, due to delays in the process and incomplete documentation. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) conducts most of DOD's clearance investigations, which DOD adjudicators use to make clearance decisions. The Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) chairs a Performance Accountability Council that is responsible for reforming the clearance process. Conducted under the authority of the Comptroller General, GAO's report addresses the reporting on timeliness for DOD clearances, documentation completeness for making initial top-secret clearance decisions for DOD personnel, and reporting on the quality of the clearance process. To assess these issues, GAO analyzed data on most DOD clearances granted in fiscal year 2008, randomly sampled and analyzed 100 OPM investigative reports and DOD adjudicative files for clearances granted in July 2008, and analyzed 2006-09 executive branch annual clearance reports. GAO recommends that, in annual reports to Congress, OMB provide Congress with more information on timeliness and quality and that OPM and DOD address documentation completeness issues. OMB and DOD concurred, while OPM did not state whether it concurred with GAO's recommendations."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2009-05
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Freight Rail Security: Actions Have Been Taken to Enhance Security, but the Federal Strategy Can Be Strengthened and Security Efforts Better Monitored, Report to Congressional Requesters
"An attack on the U.S. freight rail system could be catastrophic because rail cars carrying highly toxic materials often traverse densely populated urban areas. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the federal entity primarily responsible for securing freight rail. GAO was asked to assess the status of efforts to secure this system. This report discusses stakeholder efforts to assess risks to the freight rail system and TSA's development of a risk-based security strategy, actions stakeholders have taken to secure the system since 2001, TSA's efforts to monitor and assess their effectiveness, and any challenges to implementing future actions, and the extent to which stakeholders have coordinated efforts. GAO reviewed documents, including TSA's freight rail strategic plan; conducted site visits to seven U.S. cities with significant rail operations involving hazardous materials; and interviewed federal and industry officials. Among other things, GAO recommends that TSA reflect all security threats in strategy, strengthen its performance measures, better assess and track actions being taken, and more closely work with some federal stakeholders. DHS generally concurs with our recommendations and has initiated action on some; however, these actions will not fully address all of the recommendations."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2009-04
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Estimates of Job Creation from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
This report by the Executive Office of the President of the United States and Council of Economic Advisers "describes the estimating procedures used so far; specifies procedures to be used by recipients for estimating job creation going forward; discusses reporting requirements for job creation; and describes the procedures the CEA will use to evaluate the job creation and retention benefits of the ARRA [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] going forward." The report continues that the ARRA "was designed to save and create jobs, as well as to cushion the economic downturn and make crucial public investments. At the time of passage, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) made estimates of the employment effects of the Act for the economy as a whole. As the money is being distributed by the various agencies, there is interest in estimates of the likely jobs effects of the individual pieces. Of course, as projects swing into action, the government will gather actual data on reported job creation."
Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.); United States. Executive Office of the President
2009-05
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Today's Health Care Costs Meeting-Participants, Fact Sheet, and Letter [May 11, 2009]
This press release includes "a list of health care reform stakeholders who will meet with the President and administration officials today [May 11, 2009]" to discuss "reducing the growth rate of health care costs." This PDF document includes the press release, a full factsheet, and the letter to the President from the group.
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-11
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President Obama Launches Office of Public Engagement: A New Name, Mission for White House Liaison Office [May 11, 2009]
"President Obama today [May 11, 2009] announced a new name and a new mission for the White House office charged with dealing most closely with the American people. The Office of Public Liaison is now the Office of Public Engagement. OPE, along with the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, will serve as the front door to the White House through which ordinary Americans can participate and inform the work of the President. The current leadership will remain to carry out the new mission and includes Valerie Jarrett, Senior Adviser to the President, Christina M. Tchen, Director of OPE; and Michael Strautmanis Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Engagement."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-11
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Fact Sheet: Innovative Workplace Practices: A Discussion with President Obama [May 12, 2009]
This factsheet from May 12, 2009 covers innovative workplace practices. From the document: "[a]ll over the country, innovative ideas are being implemented in the workplace to improve the health of workers and reduce the rising rate of health care spending. Skyrocketing health care costs are crushing families and companies, impeding businesses' ability to expand and compete, and stunting the country's economic growth. Some employers and unions -- spanning industries, firm size, and workforce demographics -- are using creative approaches to reverse that trend in their workplaces. Examples of innovative health care programs in the workplace are everywhere. As a result of many successful programs at businesses across the country, workers have become more engaged in their own health care, productivity is increasing, absenteeism is dropping, and employers are passing some of their health care savings to their workers. Employers are discovering that improving quality of care can reduce health care costs. Small actions in the workplace can generate large benefits. Today, the President will meet with some employers and unions whose innovations have produced promising results. He will hear firsthand about the best practices that are spreading in workplaces around America. Many in this group have reduced disease risk factors; several have onsite clinics; and all have programs to reduce obesity and improve activity levels. And the President will direct the Office of Personnel Management to work with the Office of Health Reform, the National Economic Council, the Department of Labor, and the Office of Management and Budget to examine successful employer wellness and prevention practices that lower health care costs and improve employees' health and to explore the feasibility of developing such a plan for federal employees and their workplaces. The President hopes that by encouraging more employers to adopt similar programs, we can improve the productivity of our workforce, delay or avoid many of the complications of chronic diseases, and slow medical cost growth." Several companies, agencies, and organizations were represented at this meeting.
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-12
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Background on 2009 NAPO Top Cop Award Recipients [May 12, 2009]
This May 12, 2009 press release gives the background on the 2009 National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) Top Cop Award Recipients.
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-12
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Message from the President to Congress Regarding the Budget [May 8, 2009]
May 8, 2009, President Obama submitted a letter to the United States Congress regarding the budget. From the document: "I have the honor to transmit to you the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2010. In my February 26th budget overview, A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise, I provided a broad outline of how our Nation came to this moment of economic, financial, and fiscal crisis; and how my Administration plans to move this economy from recession to recovery and lay a new foundation for long-term economic growth and prosperity. This Budget fills out this picture by providing full programmatic details and proposing appropriations language and other required information for the Congress to put these plans fully into effect. Specifically, this Budget details the pillars of the stable and broad economic growth we seek: making long overdue investments and reforms in education so that every child can compete in the global economy, undertaking health care reform so that we can control costs while boosting coverage and quality, and investing in renewable sources of energy so that we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and become the world leader in the new clean energy economy."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-08
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Weekly Address: President Obama Calls on Congress to Pass Credit Card Reform Bill [May 10, 2009]
"In his weekly address [May 10, 2009], President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass a credit card reform bill, so that he can sign it into law by Memorial Day. The American people know that they must act responsibly and fairly, and credit institutions must do the same. Sudden rate hikes, unfair penalties, and hidden fees are too common and are hurting too many people. The set of principles the President has advocated will bring strong and reliable protections to consumers and strengthen monitoring, enforcement, and penalties for credit card companies that attempt to take advantage of ordinary Americans. "
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-10
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CEA Releases New Report on Measuring Recovery Act Progress Creating, Saving Jobs [May 11, 2009]
"The Council on Economic Advisers today [May 11, 2009] released 'Estimates of Job Creation from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,' a report detailing how the Administration will measure progress creating and saving jobs under the Recovery Act. Work began on the methodology in the earliest days of the Administration and within days of the Recovery Act being signed into law, Chairman Romer met with top economists from numerous agencies to develop a simple, conservative and accurate model for measuring progress. The model pairs a macro approach based on projected and actual spending with direct reporting by recipients to improve the level of accuracy."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-11
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Remarks of the President at First Quarterly Meeting of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board [May 20, 2009]
This document is a transcript of the First Quarterly Meeting of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board held May 20, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Paul Volcker and staffed by Austin Goolsbee. The group created several work-groups including the following: "a housing group, a financial markets and regulations group, a retirement and savings group, a tax and tax reform group, an energy group, and a job creation and industry of the future group." The group followed this with discussing a draft letter regarding the groups' position on specific issues such as "energy policy, jobs, [and] cap and trade." The President also attended this meeting and discussed issues with the group.
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-20
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Quarterly Report to the President on Progress Implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
"This report will provide the current status of funding under the [American Recovery and Reinvestment] Act, review the first and primary purpose--job creation--and share some reports from the field that provide insights into initial implementation efforts." From the introduction by Vice-President Biden: "Over 90 days have passed since [the President] signed the Recovery Act, and significant progress has been made toward implementation. We remain ahead of schedule in most programs and, due to efficiencies and sound management, many projects are coming in under budget. As you know, we set a goal of outlaying 70 percent of Recovery Act expenditures by the end of 2010; after just three months, we have already obligated more than $88 billion." This document also includes several charts and graphs.
United States. White House Office
2009-05
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Weekly Address: President Obama Says Progress on Clean Energy and Healthcare Reform Will Lay New Foundation [May 16, 2009]
In this weekly address from May 16, 2009, President Obama "praised individuals representing different perspectives for coming together to address the challenges of building a clean energy economy, reforming the healthcare system and laying a new foundation for the long-term strength of our economy. Utility companies and corporate leaders are working with environmental advocates and labor leaders to find a way to reduce dependence on foreign oil, to fight climate change, and to create millions of new jobs in America. Recently, past critics and advocates of healthcare reform sat down with the President to work on reducing the healthcare costs by $2 trillion in the next decade and saving families $2,500 in the coming years."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-16
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Message from the President to Congress Regarding the Budget Supplemental for the IMF and NAB [May 13, 2009]
In this May 12, 2009 letter from President Obama to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President "urge that the Congress expand the resources available to the IMF [International Monetary Fund] through its New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) and approve a set of other proposals to strengthen the IMF, including an increase of about $8 billion in the U.S. quota subscription to the IMF." The letter goes on to state "This step is crucial for U.S. economic interests. Many of the developing countries that would benefit from the NAB expansion are experiencing severe economic decline and a massive withdrawal of capital. Should the situation become worse, and should the IMF not be in a position to stem the crisis, currencies could collapse. The experience with the Asian financial crisis shows that such a massive failure would be a catalyst for steeper drops in U.S. growth, jobs, and exports."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-13
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Vice President Biden Delivers First Quarterly Report to the President on Recovery Act Progress [May 13, 2009]
"The Vice President today [May 13, 2009] submitted his first quarterly report to the President detailing progress implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The report shows early progress providing immediate financial relief for American families and jump-starting billions of dollars in job-creating projects in the first quarter, with both the pace of spending and job creation expected to accelerate significantly in the coming months."
United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary
2009-05-13
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Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2008 Transportation Security Administration Financial Statement Audit (Redacted)
"This report presents the information technology (IT) management letter for the FY 2008 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) financial statement audit as of September 30, 2008. It contains observations and recommendations related to information technology internal control that were not required to be reported in the financial statement audit report (OIG-09-09, November 2008) and represents the separate restricted distribution report mentioned in that report. The independent accounting firm KPMG LLP (KPMG) performed the audit of TSA's FY 2008 balance sheet and prepared this IT management letter. KPMG is responsible for the attached IT management letter dated March 6, 2009, and the conclusions expressed in it. We do not express opinions on TSA's financial statements or internal control or make conclusions on compliance with laws and regulations. The recommendations herein have been developed to the best knowledge available to our office, and have been discussed in draft with those responsible for implementation. We trust this report will result in more effective, efficient, and economical operations. We express our appreciation to all of those who contributed to the preparation of this report."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2009-04
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Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2008 Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Financial Statement Audit (Redacted)
"This report presents the information technology (IT) management letter for the FY 2008 Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) consolidated balance sheet audit as of September 30, 2008. It contains observations and recommendations related to information technology internal control that were not required to be reported in the financial statement audit report (OIG-09-09, November 2008) and represents the separate restricted distribution report mentioned in that report. The independent accounting firm KPMG LLP (KPMG) performed the audit of FLETC's FY 2008 financial statements and prepared this IT management letter. KPMG is responsible for the attached IT management letter dated December 5, 2008, and the conclusions expressed in it. We do not express opinions on DHS' financial statements or internal control or make conclusions on compliance with laws and regulations. The recommendations herein have been developed to the best knowledge available to our office, and have been discussed in draft with those responsible for implementation. We trust this report will result in more effective, efficient, and economical operations. We express our appreciation to all of those who contributed to the preparation of this report."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2009-04
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Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2008 DHS Financial Statement Audit (Redacted)
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) was established by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296) by amendment to the Inspector General Act of 1978. This is one of a series of audit, inspection, and special reports prepared as part of our oversight responsibilities to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness within the department. This report presents the information (IT) management letter for the FY 2008 DHS financial statement audit as of September 30, 2008. It contains observations and recommendations related to information technology internal control that were not required to be reported in the financial statement audit report (OIG-09-09, November 2008) and represents the separate restricted distribution report mentioned in that report. The independent accounting firm KPMG LLP (KPMG) performed the audit of the DHS FY 2008 financial statements and prepared this IT management letter. KPMG is responsible for the attached IT management letter dated December 5, 2008, and the conclusions expressed in it. We do not express opinions on DHS' financial statements or internal control or make conclusions on compliance with laws and regulations. The recommendations herein have been developed to the best knowledge available to our office, and have been discussed in draft with those responsible for implementation. We trust this report will result in more effective, efficient, and economical operations."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2009-04
