tailieunhanh - AUDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE’S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTEGRATED WIRELESS NETWORK

Regardless of the process used to reach these decisions in a particular SAI, the considerations that should underlie them remain the same. Thus, whether a process is centralised or decentralised a similar approach is necessary, with a similar consideration of all the relevant factors throughout the SAI. These should be fully recorded and documented, particularly the necessary discussions and decisions on audit risk, materiality and sensitivity, whatever management process is consistently applied. SAIs should also recognise that the audit programme for the year (or other programming period) cannot be static. Circumstances change and. | Audit of the Department of Justice s Implementation of the integrated Wireless network . Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Audit Division Audit Report 12-10 January 2012 redacted for public release AUDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTEGRATED WIRELESS NETWORK EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A reliable secure and seamless communications network is essential to law enforcement officers including special agents when performing routine enforcement work but is even more critical when performing special and emergency operations. The agencies within the Department of Justice Department rely on several separate land mobile radio systems which include handheld radios to provide this communication capability. However an ongoing concern has been that the Department s systems are aging with some being outdated. To address these issues the Department began the Integrated Wireless Network IWN program in 1998. The Department s Justice Management Division manages the IWN program and the Department s Chief Information Officer is responsible for the program s overall implementation. The original IWN plan established in 2004 was intended to support over 81 000 federal agents from three agencies in all 50 states and the . territories. Estimated to cost over 5 billion IWN was designed not only to address the Department s aging systems but to also meet federal law enforcement requirements to communicate across agencies allow interoperability with state and local law enforcement partners and meet mandates to use federal radio frequency spectrum more efficiently. Beginning in 2001 the administration of the IWN program was expanded to ultimately include the Departments of the Treasury Treasury and Homeland Security DHS . However the IWN plan was never fully funded by Congress or by the Department at a level to adequately attain the goals of the program. In addition DHS is no longer an active participant in the IWN program implementation and Treasury s .