CUSTOMS SERVICE MODERNIZATION: Management Improvements Needed on High-Risk Automated Commercial Environment Project

Abstract

Pursuant to the U.S. Customs Services fiscal year 2002 appropriation,1 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA401524

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Money
  • Organizational Structure
  • Program Management
  • Risk Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.