[4]Raymond J. Decker, "Homeland Security: A Risk Management Approach Can Guide Preparedness Efforts," testimony before the Senate Committee on Government Affairs, October 31, 2001, p. 7, atwww.gao ...

Homeland security risk researchers talked about how their work was being used to improve homeland security. They discussed the public's response to attacks, terrorist behaviors, and potentially ...

Risk-Based Homeland Security Spending The Department of Homeland Security has changed the way it awards funds to cities. The question now is whether the new program will make America’s cities ...

The Feinstein/Cornyn "Homeland Security FORWARD Funding Act of 2005" is a step in the right direction. It would require DHS to distribute state grants according to risk assessments.

The Department of Homeland Security is still searching for a coherent mission after it was created as a mishmash of 22 disparate agencies in the rush to respond to the Sept. 11 attacks.

2008 warning This is not the first time DHS has received this kind of warning. In 2008, the National Research Council examined DHS’s risk assessment model for biological threats and flatly declared it ...