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Homeland Security

Counter WMD Spending Focus Will Shift To Operators, DHS Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

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Counter WMD Spending Focus Will Shift To Operators, DHS Official Says

James McDonnell, assistant secretary of DHS for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. Photo: DHS

The spending priorities for a new Department of Homeland Security office that is focused on countering chemical, biological and nuclear threats to the homeland plans to shift its spending focus away from policy and analysis and toward getting operators the equipment and capabilities they need, a department official said this week.“So policy and analysis and all those kind of things are interesting and important but at some point you can say, ‘Okay, we have studied this enough, now we’re going…

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