Customs Service Modernization: Management Improvements Needed on High-Risk Automated Commercial Environment Project.

摘要

Pursuant to the U.S. Customs Service's fiscal year 2002 appropriation, Customs submitted to Congress in February 2002 its second expenditure plan, requesting $206.9 million for its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) project. ACE is intended to be Customs' new import processing system and the first project under the Customs Modernization Program. As required by the act, we reviewed the expenditure plan. Our objectives were to (1) determine whether the second plan satisfied the legislative conditions specified in the act, (2) determine whether the plan is consistent with our open ACE recommendations, and (3) provide observations about the second plan and Customs' management of ACE. This report officially transmits to you the results of our work and the recommendations we made to the commissioner of Customs. The full briefing, including our scope and methodology, is reprinted as appendix I. In brief, we determined that Customs' expenditure plan satisfies the legislative conditions specified in the appropriations act. The plan provides for (1) meeting the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) capital planning and investment control review requirements; (2) complying with Customs' enterprise architecture; and (3) complying with federal acquisition rules, requirements, guidelines, and systems acquisition management practices.