I hope the DHS already had this tool...

I'm not sure what this article from Government Computer News portends. I though the Department of Homeland Security already had risk analysis tools. If it didn't...Egad!

Of course, the inefficiency, bloat, and ineffectiveness of the DHS is one of the great tragedies of the last several years. There are a lot of very skilled professionals in the DHS...But, unfortunately, you'll also find more than enough sub-par people, too. It's an under-reported story, but we can only hope it gets more attention.

I've had a personal brush with the information technology (IT) folks at DHS. I'll just say that I wasn't surprised by revelations about the underqualified managers in their ranks, most significantly Laura Callahan, a former Deputy CIO of the DHS. Callahan got her start in the Clinton years, when her supervisors overlooked the fact that her computer science degree was from a diploma mill. However, it was during the Bush years that a much bigger number of underqualified people were promoted or hired into management positions at DHS. Without this boondoggle, Callahan might have hit a ceiling in the org chart, or been nudged out of her job a lot sooner.

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[MountainRunner]

Congress was in agreement with your assessment. On my long post on the recent DHS Science and Technology Directorate conference, I noted Congressional approval of the way Amb Cohen is reconfiguring S&T. The Congressional staffer would give a negative remark on how things were and then praise on how Cohen is changing it. This pairing of +/- went on for some time.