
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…