Sunday, March 29, 2015

DHS: The Department of Everything?

DHS: The Department of Everything? « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
A colleague and I wrote a 10-year retrospective assessment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2011, calling the organization a “colossal, inefficient boondoogle.” Amazingly, that didn’t land us on the no-fly list, probably because — even then — we weren’t the first, last or only critics of DHS.

Three issues keep DHS struggling:
  • a stew of organizational cultures,
  • a bungling of personnel management and, most fundamentally,
  • an organizational charter that seems to designate DHS as the Department of Everything. But, as Frederick the Great so aptly put it, “he who defends everything defends nothing.”

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