Philip Spayd, Northeast regional director for U.S. Customs, has high hopes for the success of the sweeping new Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He recently told the Connecticut Business Aviation Group, “Keep your eye on it. It’s going to move fast and it is going to affect you.”
Spayd hopes that integrating a number of agencies will streamline communications and smooth some of the personnel logjams that have created problems in the past. For instance, he said that while he recognizes the role of employee unions to protect government workers, under the current rules one bad fitness report by a manager could result in a three-day hearing and a stack of printed documentation two feet thick. “I know the President isn’t always regarded that highly,” said Spayd, “but when the Homeland Security Act was passed, he had 60 days to develop an implementation outline. It was delivered the very same day the law passed.”
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