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Major Management Challenges and Program Risks Department of Homeland Security

Overview The new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) faces unique opportunities and risks for ensuring the nation's homeland security. The implementation and transformation of DHS will be complex, and the components being merged into the new department already face a wide array of existing challenges. The information GAO presents in this report is intended to sustain congressional attention and a departmental focus on addressing these challenges. This report is part of a special series of reports on government wide and agency specific issues.

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Publisher	U.S. Government Accountability Office	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Enterprise Architecture

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