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GAO Finds DHS Improving Coordination Of R&D

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, March 22nd, 2019

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The Department of Homeland Security is improving its coordination of research and development (R&D) activities across the department through an integrated process that brings together stakeholders on a project by project basis, although one component, the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) office, doesn’t participate in the process, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report. The department’s Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate resurrected the Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) in 2015 to coordinate R&D efforts, eliminate duplication and…

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