http://www.fcw.com/online/news/154055-1.html



By Alice Lipowicz

FCW.com

October 13, 2008



The Homeland Security Department is severely behind schedule in its core 

mission of preparing for major cyberattacks, explosive attacks, natural 

disasters and other scenarios, according to Rep. Bennie Thompson 

(D-Miss.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.



Of eight planning scenarios and associated planning documents that are 

supposed to be the foundation of the National Response Framework, the 

department has completed only the first step of planning on a single 

scenario, Thompson wrote in an Oct. 9 letter to DHS Secretary Michael 

Chertoff.



As of Sept. 23, the department had finished its strategic guidance 

document for explosive attacks, which was the only scenario for which 

that document was completed, said a spokesman for Thompson. Strategic 

plans, concepts of operation, and operational plans were not completed 

for any of the eight scenarios.



“Since these planning scenarios are at the very core of the department’s 

mission, it is rather astonishing that these plans have not been 

completed,” Thompson wrote.



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