GAO Releases SBInet Budget Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report entitled “SBInet Expenditure Plan Needs to Better Support Oversight and Accountability.” After reviewing the report, Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement:
“Just this morning, Deputy Security Michael Jackson testified that SBInet would be delivered ‘on time and on budget.’ However, after reading the GAO assessment of SBInet, it seems that the Department’s scattershot approach of issuing different, interdependent simultaneous task orders leaves the program vulnerable to collapsing on itself, like a house of cards.
“The country deserves more than mediocre management of their hard earned dollars from our government and we in turn should be able to expect transparency and good business practices from the Department of Homeland Security, which appear to be lacking here,” said Rep. Thompson.
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