
The termination for convenience last year by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of a contract to NVS Technologies, Inc. for the development of a rapidly deployable biological threat detection platform demonstrated a lack of adequate standards for overseeing contracts and may have resulted in the waste of at least $23 million in costs, the department’s Inspector General’s office says in a report this week.The audit found that none of the program managers assigned to…