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DHS Says New Review Is a Tool for Leadership to Link Programs with Missions

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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

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The recently completed Bottom-Up Review (BUR) gives the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) leadership "for the first time ever a powerful tool" to look at its various programs and activities and link them to its missions and functions, according to David Heyman, the assistant secretary for Policy at DHS. The BUR basically maps the activities that are "below the programmatic level" to the mission areas and functional areas such as screening, domain awareness and preventing terrorism to provide different views…

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