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Homeland Security

GAO Likes Coast Guard’s Improved Deepwater Oversight But Uncertainty Remains

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Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The Coast Guard has improved its accountability for the program management of the Deepwater modernization program by giving its own managers greater oversight and by shifting the management focus to an asset-based approach instead of the system-of-systems approach it originally approved for the industry team that previously was responsible for managing the program, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report released yesterday. "Formerly, ICGS (Integrated Coast Guard Systems) had significant program management responsibilities, such…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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