GAO Report Digs Into Emergency Communications Coordination
A GAO report released Thursday criticized emergency communications coordination in the national capital region, comprising Washington and parts of Maryland and Virginia. The Office of National Capital Region Coordination within the Department of Homeland Security, must, “as part of its…
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efforts to restructure the JFC [Joint Federal Committee], clearly articulate in a written agreement the roles and responsibilities of participating agencies and specify how they are to work together across agency boundaries,” GAO recommended in the 28-page report. The office concurred with GAO’s recommendation. The report outlined concerns with how coordination was handled before: “When the JFC existed, its operation was not fully aligned with interagency collaboration mechanisms that GAO has identified. In particular, the JFC’s charter did not specify the roles and responsibilities of participating agencies or how they were to work together across agency boundaries. Addressing these interagency collaborative mechanisms in the planned restructuring of the JFC could provide greater clarity on roles and responsibilities and enhance its ability to coordinate federal efforts in the region.”