CNSNews.com - Homeland Security’s National Operations Center ‘Unable’ to Do Its Job, Inspector General Finds

CNSNews.com - Homeland Security’s National Operations Center ‘Unable’ to Do Its Job, Inspector General Finds

(CNSNews.com) – The Homeland Security Department’s National Operations Center (NOC) is “unable” to do its job of ensuring coordination among the 22 federal agencies that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and focuses too much on disaster management rather than terrorism prevention, according to its own inspector general.

The National Operations Center, in fact, functions largely in name only, and current operations apparently have diminished its ability to respond to terrorist threats.

These assessments are presented in a redacted report from the DHS Office of Inspector General released in November and entitled “Information Sharing at the National Operations Center.”