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DHS Renews Bid To Consolidate Disparate Financial Systems

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Monday, June 2nd, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker Following one failed attempt and another that never really got far, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has renewed its efforts to find help from industry in consolidating the legacy financial and asset management systems that are strewn throughout the 22 agencies brought together over five years ago to create the department. Last Thursday DHS released a Request for Information (RFI) for the Transformation and Systems Consolidation (TASC) seeking information from firms capable of "implementing, operating and…

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