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Wildfires: Additional Actions Needed to Address FEMA Assistance Challenges

GAO-25-106862
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should follow the process to expand, establish, or adopt a categorical exclusion for wildfire mitigation activities that includes post-wildfire soil stabilization and erosion control measures. (Recommendation 2)
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Artificial Intelligence: DHS Needs to Improve Risk Assessment Guidance for Critical Infrastructure Sectors

GAO-25-107435
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should expeditiously update its guidance and template for AI risk assessments to address the gaps identified in this report, including activities such as identifying potential risks and evaluating the level of risk, and ensure that the updates are shared with all the SRMAs.
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Homeland Security: Actions Needed to Address Acquisition Workforce Challenges and Data

GAO-25-107075
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Under Secretary for Management establishes a methodology for identifying information about the personnel supporting the 11 DHS-defined acquisition disciplines that make up DHS's acquisition workforce. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer identifies methods to ensure it maintains comprehensive data across all 11 disciplines that constitute the acquisition workforce, such as identifying additional acquisition workforce data from the components or requiring acquisition personnel to regularly update their records in Cornerstone. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that as the Office of Program Accountability and Risk Management continues to refine its staffing model, that it continues to identify and implement greater process efficiencies in its data collection efforts on the workforce supporting major acquisition programs, and works with components to identify what, if any, additional data and resources are needed to meet the model's intended goals, including justifying staffing needs and generating appropriate staff compositions for current and future programs. (Recommendation 2)
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Homeland Security: Actions Needed to Address Acquisition Workforce Challenges and Data

GAO-25-107075
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Under Secretary for Management develops a strategy to assess whether its mitigation efforts are aligned with the challenges facing the acquisition workforce and to monitor results, such as establishing and tracking performance metrics for the efforts it is using to address workforce challenges. (Recommendation 1)
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Law Enforcement: DHS Could Better Address Bias Risk and Enhance Privacy Protections for Technologies Used in Public

GAO-25-107302
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Director of the Secret Service require each detection, observation, and monitoring technology policy to address the privacy protections in the Fair Information Practice Principles. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Commissioner of CBP require each detection, observation, and monitoring technology policy to address the privacy protections in the Fair Information Practice Principles. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties develop policies and procedures to assess and address bias risks for DHS law enforcement agencies' detection, observation, and monitoring technologies prior to their use. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Director of ICE require each detection, observation, and monitoring technology policy to address the privacy protections in the Fair Information Practice Principles. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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