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“DHS should plan how to buy selected biodetection technologies and provide them to jurisdictions that already participate in BioWatch.”
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“DHS should identify biodetection technologies that can meet its mission needs, using DHS planning documents and outside studies, including a 2021 review of the BioWatch collector network.”
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“DHS should review how it has used Energy Department national laboratories for homeland security research and create a biodetection research plan with those labs to send to Congress.”
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“DHS should help federal, state, local, and Tribal governments, colleges and universities, and private-sector partners decide what future DHS environmental biodetection programs need to do and what technology they need.”
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“GAO should compare how well phones, social media, broadcasts, and other alert channels send extreme-weather information such as travel bans and widespread power outages.”
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“GAO should check whether the people who write emergency alerts have guidance and training that helps them tell the public clearly what is happening and what actions to take.”
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“Outside reviewers should periodically evaluate DHS biodetection technologies, look for gaps or possible failure points, and recommend backup plans if the technologies do not work as expected.”
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“FEMA should give states, local governments, Tribes, territories, and urban-area grant partners ongoing help with major homeland security grant programs before, during, and after grants are awarded.”
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“FEMA should fund grants for states, cities, tribes, nonprofits, firefighters, ports, transit systems, flood maps, shelters, warning systems, and local emergency projects.”
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“GAO should send Congress the weather-emergency alert study within 18 months, with the report going to House and Senate committees that handle infrastructure and homeland security issues.”
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“The Government Accountability Office should review how well FEMA helps homeland security grant users before, during, and after awards, then report its findings to FEMA and key congressional committees within two years.”
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“GAO should study whether local, state, territorial, and federal alert systems get timely, useful weather-emergency warnings to people, and should look at possible improvements including outdoor sirens.”
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“The Homeland Security Secretary should send Congress a report within two years explaining who participates in the Securing the Cities program, what goals and milestones exist, how the program is performing, and what changes DHS plans.”
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“DHS should update key congressional committees within one year on its Energy lab review and biodetection strategy, including problems DHS faces in carrying out the strategy.”
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“DHS should monitor how money is spent in the Securing the Cities program, which supports local efforts to detect nuclear and radiological threats.”
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“DHS should choose Securing the Cities locations by looking at their ability to prepare and respond, how likely they are to face nuclear or radiological threats, how vulnerable they are, and how severe the harm could be.”
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“The Securing the Cities program should be able to include places DHS selects for nuclear or radiological threat preparedness, instead of being limited only to high-risk urban areas.”
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