Defense Infrastructure. Actions Needed to Guide DOD's Efforts to Identify, Prioritize, and Assess Its Critical Infrastructure
Abstract
While DOD has taken some important steps to implement DCIP, it has not developed a comprehensive management plan to guide its efforts. Our prior work,10 as well as the Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government,11 emphasizes the importance of such a plan and management controls, respectively, to guide program implementation. Accordingly, this plan should include key elements, such as developing and issuing guidance, coordinating stakeholders efforts, and identifying resource requirements and sources. DOD s most recent effort to protect critical infrastructure began in September 2003 and, as of May 2007, most of DOD s DCIP guidance was either newly issued or still in draft form. In the absence of finalized guidance, DOD components have been pursuing Results in on established programs, such as the antiterrorism program, to implement DCIP, even though antiterrorism has not been formally linked to DCIP. Although DOD issued a DCIP directive in August 2005, the lead office ASD(HD&ASA) lacks a chartering directive that defines important roles, responsibilities, and relationships with other DOD organizations and missions. In March 2003, the Deputy Secretary of Defense required the Director of Administration and Management within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to, among other things, define the relationship between the Directorates for HD&ASA and Special Operations and Low- Intensity Conflict and Interdependent Capabilities regarding several matters, including antiterrorism missions, in a chartering directive. However, as of May 2007, more than 4 years later, this task has not been accomplished. Similarly, because DOD s strategy on tracking and monitoring critical infrastructure was not issued until 2006, components have been collecting different information on their infrastructure, which, over the long term, could complicate information sharing and analysis across the DOD components and sector lead agents.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA468295
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office