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GAO: DHS Should Leverage Results From Acquisition Programs to Improve Portfolio Management

Homeland Security Today: A GAO report has found that DHS could improve its acquisition program portfolio management by leverage results from previous programs and more fully documenting breaches in performance goal, time or cost schedule.

Each year, DHS invests billions of dollars in major acquisitions such as aircraft and surveillance technology, but GAO found that in 2017, more than half of the agency’s major acquisition programs needed more time and money than initially planned.

GAO looked at 28 programs in total, four of which were new programs that GAO did not assess because they did not establish cost and schedule goals before the end of calendar year 2017 as planned. Of the remaining 24, ten were on track to meet schedule and cost goals, six had schedule delays, two had cost increases and six had both schedule delays and cost increases.

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