DHS Says Combined Agencies Are Performing Well

The Department of Homeland Security's 22 combined agencies are performing well despite recent reports to the contrary, says one DHS official.

In a letter to the editor of the Miami Herald, the department's deputy secretary James M. Loy criticized the paper for a recent editorial suggesting the department needs to improve planning.

"The editorial failed to recognize the inherent efficiencies that have resulted from consolidating 22 once-fragmented agencies into an integrated, Cabinet-level department," Loy wrote. Loy also pointed to the department's successes over the past year, and outlined its plans for the agency's second year of operation.

Loy's letter follows a report in the March 17 edition of Continuity e-Guide which said a preliminary congressional report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) found it difficult to know how much money the government saved by consolidating and integrating the IT systems of the 22 agencies now making up the DHS.

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