...coordinate counterterrorism policy issues and OMB is to assess competing funding demands, neither agency is required to regularly collect, aggregate, and review...crosscutting, governmentwide basis. Further, neither agency establishes funding priorities for terrorism-related programs across agencies' budgets or ensures that...

...to establish 10 Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection, or RAID, teams throughout the country. The US Marine Corps has established the Chemical Biological...budget requests were submitted to the Congress. Because governmentwide priorities have not been established and funding requirements have not necessarily been...

...money is actually spent on Federal programs to combat terrorism. Two, as of December 1997, no agency was required to regularly collect, aggregate, and...terrorism on a crosscutting, governmentwide basis. The $30.5 million Domestic Preparedness Program which pro-vides training and equipment to local governments...

...Despite their oversight roles, the NSC and OMB were not regularly collecting, aggregating, and reviewing funding and spending data relative to combating terrorism...on a crosscutting, governmentwide basis. Further, funding priorities for terrorism-related programs were not established. As a result, there was no assurance...