Most Major DHS Acquisition Programs Meeting Cost, Schedule Goals, GAO Says

摘要

More than 75 percent of major homeland security acquisition programs reviewed are meetingtheir most recent cost and schedule baselines though risks are present, the GovernmentAccountability Office (GAO) says in its annual report assessing the Department of HomelandSecurity’s acquisition programs.The report says 19 of 24 programs assessed were meeting their cost and schedule goals as ofSeptember 2020, although 10 programs had experienced a breach at some point during fiscalyear 2020, which ended last September. Some of the breaches were due to COVID-19 impactsand others because of management issues, GAO says in the report, DHS Annual Assessment:Most Acquisition Programs Are Meeting Goals but Data Provided to Congress Lacks ContextNeeded for Effective Oversight (GAO-21-175).