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DHS Management Chief Outlines Changes In Acquisition Monitoring

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

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Over the past year the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made a number of changes in the way senior management oversees major acquisition programs so that they have more data to track the health of these programs and resolve any concerns sooner rather than later, Rafael Borras, the under secretary for Management at DHS, said yesterday. The changes follow the cancellation of several major acquisition programs that came under intense congressional scrutiny for cost overruns and poor management the…

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