Continued weaknesses in IT controls at DHS are threatening efforts to maintain the integrity of financial data within the department, according to a new report.
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"We need to look at when and under what circumstances is it appropriate to be contracting and when is it not ... ," U.S. Comptroller General David Walker told a Senate committee.
Senior Executive Service and presidential appointees resigned or transferred from DHS at a rate of 12.8 percent last fiscal year and 14.5 percent in 2005. The average for other major departments was 6 percent last year and 7 percent in 2005, GAO said.
To improve accountability in government procurement, two Democratic lawmakers are promoting the creation of a centralized database that tracks contractor performance and fraud.
Agencies have sent more contracting dollars to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses than in past years, but they're still falling short, an SBA official told a House subcommittee.
Lawmakers would like to know why NOAA awarded a bonus fee to a contractor working on satellite programs that suffer from schedule delays and cost overruns.
The Transportation Workers Identification Credential missed its July 1 rollout partly because its systems are undergoing extra testing, a TSA official testified Thursday.
President Bush has nominated Nortel Networks Corp. President and Chief Executive Mike Zafirovski to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
In a July 10 memo, Paul Denett, administrator of OFPP, asked agencies to review their IT requirements and check GSA's Veterans Technology Services Governmentwide Acquisition Contract for services.
Public safety agencies should have the final word on whether to accept or reject a proposed sharing of a block of radio spectrum expected to be auctioned for use as a national broadband network for public safety, according to a council of public safety communications advocates.
The United States Transportation Command has picked 10 companies for a multiple-award IT services contract. The five-year contract could be worth up to $250 million.
