Secure Border Initiative
Subtitle: DHS needs to reconsider its proposed investment in key technology program : report to congressional requesters
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Appropriations and expenditures; Evaluation; Border security; Management; Technological innovations; Boundaries; United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States
Other titles: Secure Border Initiative :; DHS needs to reconsider its proposed investment in key technology program; SBInet Program
Description: The technology component of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Secure Border Initiative (SBI), referred to as SBInet, is to put observing systems along our nation's borders and provide Border Patrol command centers with the imagery and related tools and information needed in deciding whether to deploy agents. SBInet is being acquired and deployed in incremental blocks of capability, with the first block to cost about $1.3 billion. Because of the program's importance, size, and challenges, GAO was asked to, among other things, determine the extent to which DHS has (1) defined the scope of its proposed SBInet solution, (2) developed a reliable schedule for this solution, (3) demonstrated the cost-effectiveness of this solution, and (4) acquired the solution using key management processes. To do this, GAO compared key program documentation to relevant guidance and industry practices. GAO is making recommendations to DHS aimed at (1) limiting near-term investment in the first incremental block of SBInet, (2) economically justifying any longer-term investment in SBInet, and (3) improving key program management disciplines.
Notes: Title from cover screen (GAO, viewed June 19, 2010).

"May 2010."

"GAO-10-340."

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