OEC Outreach Clips: Completion of DHS HQ Consolidation Will Enhance Operations, Save Taxpayers, Report Says, Source Homeland Security Today

Completion of a consolidated Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters at the St. Elizabeths West campus should save taxpayers $1.2 billion over 30 years and enhance the department’s coordinated national security efforts according to the new report, DHS Headquarters Consolidation at St. Elizabeths: Better Results for Less Money, released by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the senior Democrat on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.  “The headquarters consolidation project at St. Elizabeths is crucial to the success of the department and to realizing the unified, cohesive DHS envisioned by Congress when it created the department 14 years ago,” Carper said. Completion of DHS HQ Consolidation Will Enhance Operations, Save Taxpayers, Report Says