Fifteen years in, the Port Security Grant Program hardened individual facilities — building "Maginot Lines," or worse, "independent pill boxes, which the Threat can bypass rather than directly confront" — instead of making the maritime transportation system resilient as a whole; the program should aim to make the system "like a block of ballistic gel; able to absorb impact and still retain its shape," kept as a discrete program with transparency and fiduciary reforms.

— In our words · Source: The port security grant program: good enough, or can it be made better? (Paul D. J. Arnett)