Advanced management skills and accountability
The coordination between FEMA and the Red Cross should be improved for the 2006 hurricane season, GAO-06-712 (Washington, DC: June 8, 2006).
30GAO, Homeland Security: Critical Design and Implementation Issues GAO-02-957T (Washington, DC: July 17, 2002).
31As a result of the Secretary-General `s Second Stage Review, the director of FEMA was also the Under Secretary of State of emergency management.
32See U.S. Emergency Management Authority Act of 2006, S. 3595, 109 Cong. P. 504 (2006); National Emergency Operations Centre management reform and extension of the Act of 2006, HR 5351, 109 Cong. P. 502 (b) (2006).
33 GAO, Homeland Security: DHS ‘efforts to increase the First Responder “All threats continue to develop skills, GAO-05-652 (Washington, DC: July 11, 2005).
34See GAO, Disaster Management: improving the nation `s Response to Catastrophic Disasters, GAO-93-186 (Washington, DC: July 23, 1993), and Disaster Management: Recent disasters show the need to improve the nation` s Response Strategy, GAO-93-46
37Typically, military equipment does not work with civilian police, fire fighters, emergency and medical systems, unless it is supplemented by special equipment. During Hurricane Katrina, military and civilian facilities for the deployment of mobile communications vans, could connect different communication systems, are generally incompatible.
38GAO, Homeland Security: Federal Leadership and intergovernmental cooperation required to achieve interoperability First Responder Communications, GAO-04-740 (Washington, DC: July 20, 2004).