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GAO Cites Progress, Challenges In Supply Chain Security

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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security has increasingly been able to target higher volumes of high-risk cargo containers to be examined at overseas ports before being shipped to the United States due to an increase in staffing levels, although challenges in enhancing supply chain security at foreign ports remain, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report. The report says that Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the DHS component that oversees the program for targeting and…

Congress

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Congress

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