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With Operations To The Fore, DHS Plans Reorganization Of NPPD But House Panel Wants Say

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 7th, 2015

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With Operations To The Fore, DHS Plans Reorganization Of NPPD But House Panel Wants Say

DHS Under Secretary for the National Protections and Programs Directorate Suzanne Spaulding. Photo: DHS

Increasing cyber security threats to the national government and evolving risk to critical infrastructure have driven the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) to increase its operational focus, which will be enhanced by a proposed reorganization of the division, a senior department official told a House panel on Wednesday.These “changes we believe are necessary to keep pace with the dynamic and evolving risks that our partners in government and the private sector face each and every…

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Congress

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