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Report: Learning from the Wideband Global Satellite program's major cost overruns

Unfounded technical expectations and component quantity or cost changes are consistently-cited causes of Defense Department programs' cost overruns, finds a new report from Rand Corp. The report

DoD cancels JTRS GMR--long live JTRS GMR

UPDATE Oct. 19, 2011: Military officials say the JTRS GMR sucessor radio may include the legacy SINCGARS waveform. The Army won't make a planned buy of Joint Tactical Radio System ground mobile

Did CBP really lack controls on SBInet invoices?

Over at sister publication FierceGovernmentIT, I report that the Government Accountability Office alleges that Customs and Border Protection paid cost invoices to SBInet prime contractor without

GAO: Boeing SBInet invoices lacked justification

Customs and Border Protection has paid Boeing cost invoices for the now-canceled SBInet program without sufficient knowledge, alleges the Government Accountability Office in a May 25 report. The

Audio: ABA cybersecurity panel with David Delaney and Jeff Greene

During a panel at the American Bar Association's Homeland Security Law Institute in Washington, D.C. March 3, speakers discussed cybersecurity developments, Homeland Security Department priorities

DHS prepares for son of SBInet

As a program, SBInet may be dead , but the concept of a virtual border fence based on multi-sensor, integrated fixed towers feeding information into a common operating picture remains apparently

DHS's post-SBInet plan draws on decades-old technology

The Homeland Security Department's new border security technology approach in Arizona differs from its SBInet predecessor largely in a move away from integrated sensor towers in favor of

DHS cancels SBInet

The SBInet program is no more, the Homeland Security Department announced January 14. Instead, the department will launch a new border security technology approach, "which will utilize existing,

Boeing made 'anomalous' SBInet progress reports, says GAO

Boeing submitted "anomalous" data making its work on SBInet look better than it actually was, says the Government Accountability Office. In a report dated Oct. 18, the GAO says that during a 21-month

CBP lacks capability to support existing SBInet technology, says DHS

Customs and Border Protection lacks the capability to support SBInet technology already deployed along the southwestern border, says the Homeland Security Department. According to the "Border