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Corporate Creators:
United States. Government Accountability Office
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Aviation Ground Transportation Large Cities Nunn-Lugar-Domenici (NLD) Pipelines Protection Public Transit Risk Assessment Security Terrorism Threats Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Publication/ Report Number:
GAO/NSIAD-98-74
Resource Type:
Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:
United States
Corporate Publisher:
United States. General Accounting Office
Abstract:
The Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 established the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici (NLD) domestic preparedness program. The General Accounting Office (GAO) was requested to review implementation of the NLD program. Specifically, the GAO (1) examined threat and risk assessment approaches used by several public and private sector organizations to deal with terrorist and other security risks and obtained detailed information on a private company's risk-assessment process, (2) determined whether 11 of the first 27 cities selected for NLD training and assistance used threat and risk assessments to establish requirements for dealing with weapons of mass destruction terrorist incidents, and (3) assessed the challenges of using formal threat and risk assessments to help define requirements and prioritize and target NLD program resources. Briefly, the GAO identified several public and private sector organizations that use threat and risk assessments to manage risk and to identify and prioritize their security requirements and expenditures to protect facilities, operations, equipment, and material against terrorist and other threats. The NLD program is in the early stages of implementation, and most cities have not yet received training, assistance, or equipment. The GAO identified the following challenges to applying an accepted threat and risk assessment process to cities selected to participate in the NLD program: (1) security issues (for example, revealing intelligence sources and methods) related to providing valid threat data from the intelligence community to city officials; (2) the lack of specificity in the intelligence community's threat information; and (3) the complexity and magnitude of a large city as a subject of a threat and risk assessment. These challenges could be overcome through federal-city collaboration. An appendix to the report also discusses the Federal Aviation Administration-Federal Bureau of Investigation joint threat and vulnerability assessments, and surface transportation (road, rail, transit, pipeline, and maritime) vulnerability assessment.
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US Transportation Collection
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