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GAO-22-105702 1 (2022-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaonjx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States July 15, 2022 The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security Washington, D.C. 20528 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Homeland Security Dear Secretary Mayorkas: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2021, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 76 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DHS's recommendation implementation rate was 83 percent. As of January 2022, DHS had 470 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our August 2021 letter, DHS has implemented 5 of our 40 open priority recommendations and we have closed one as not implemented.3 * U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) implemented two recommendations to assess the contributions of surveillance technologies and border barriers to border security operations, and to apply this information when making investment and resource allocation decisions. Within CBP, U.S. Border Patrol developed a model that uses quantitative analysis and qualitative field insight to depict its Mission Essential Tasks 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operation, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2021, GAO-22-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2021). 3We closed one priority recommendation related to DHS's cost analysis process for prioritizing border barrier segments under the Impedance and Denial Prioritization Strategy. We recommended that CBP analyze the costs associated with future barrier segments and include cost as a factor in prioritizing locations for barrier construction projects under this strategy. In January 2021, a Presidential proclamation terminated the national emergency at the southwest border and paused border barrier construction, to the extent permitted by law, to permit completion and implementation of a plan for redirecting funding and repurposing contracts. In August 2021, CBP officials told us that given the Presidential proclamation, they were only completing certain previously approved border barrier projects. Due to these events, we closed this recommendation as not implemented. GAO, Southwest Border Security: CBP Is Evaluating Designs and Locations for Border Barriers but Is Proceeding Without Key Information, GAO-18-614 (Washington, D.C.: Jul. 30, 2018). GAO-22-105702 DHS Priority Recommendations Page 1

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