HOMELAND SECURITY: Information Technology Funding and Associated Management Issues

Abstract

This General Accounting Office (GAO) report to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs identifies information technology (IT) funding targeted for purposes related to homeland security for fiscal years 2002 and 2003. The report discusses IT funding for those departments and agencies that will play a key role in homeland security, and also reports on IT management issues facing these departments and agencies. In brief, GAO identified $2.9 billion in IT funding for homeland security for fiscal years 2002 and 2003: $1.2 billion is for organizations (agencies, departments, or components of these) proposed to move to the Department of Homeland Security in fiscal year 2002 and $1.7 billion is for organizations proposed to move to the new department in fiscal year 2003. Total reported IT funding for homeland security is likely understated because there may be other potential costs that are not reflected in reported totals, including multi-agency IT infrastructure (e.g., secure networks), new intelligence systems, and funding for existing agency missions that appear to be related to homeland security. The majority of the funding requested for fiscal year 2003 was reported by the Department of Justice's Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the Department of Transportation's Transportation Security Agency, and the Department of the Treasury's United States Customs Service. Beginning with the fiscal year 2004 budget submission, agencies are to indicate in Exhibit 53s whether IT projects are related to homeland security. Of those recommendations that still require action, the majority of open recommendations are associated with securing information, having a blueprint to guide system development efforts, managing IT investments, and developing and acquiring information systems. Appendixes I-III (pp. 4-33) of this report contain printed copies of slides from a briefing by GAO to the subcommittee on October 1, 2002.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA409804

Entities

People

  • Carl Levin
  • Joel C. Willemssen
  • Susan Collins

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Coast Guard
  • Commerce
  • Cybersecurity
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Electronic Mail
  • Emergency Response
  • Federal Budgets
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Personnel Management
  • Websites

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.