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Sharla Rausch, Former Deputy Director, Office of National Labs, DHS

Homeland Security Department Secretary Jeh Johnson says his agency can\'t move forward unless it stops talking about low morale. Sharla Rausch, chair of the Wom...

Federal News Network Staff

May 19, 2015 4:55 pm

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Homeland Security Department Secretary Jeh Johnson says his agency can’t move forward unless it stops talking about low morale. Sharla Rausch, chair of the Women in Homeland Security STEM Committee, is former deputy director of the Office of National Laboratories for DHS. When she was at the agency, she told her colleagues, “It all boils down to people.” But in a piece for Security Debrief, she says rearranging a few of those words more accurately describes how federal employees are feeling today — and not in good way. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose why national security boils down to understanding your employees.