A rule proposed by the DHS' Bureau of Customs and Border Protection would require federal government contractors to revisit their Trade Agreements Act certifications to ensure they are selling compliant supplies.
Changes to the agency's approach to managing technology in its Secure Border Initiative Network need to be made immediately, according to one GAO official.
Only about a third of the federal contracting dollars spent in fiscal 2007 were awarded as a result of full competition, compared with about 44 percent in fiscal 2003, a report shows.
Details of a plan to create a national communications network for first responders were announced Sept. 5 by the FCC after an earlier effort to sell the network this year failed to produce a buyer.
The Congressional Budget Office released a report early last month on the use of contractors in Iraq. Predictably, the report generated eye-catching headlines but little in-depth analysis. Yet, as always, that analysis is where the real story lies.
A major effort to upgrade computers that hold the government's master list of terrorist identities is embroiled in controversy about the project's management.
