Coast Guard news from FierceGovernmentIT

Audits of Homeland Security Department financial systems performance during the past fiscal year will reveal improved performance, a top DHS official told an Oct. 27 House panel. Testifying before Read more...

The Coast Guard has yet to fully implement a 2006 modernization plan that would move all information technology personnel under the chief information officer and give the CIO oversight of IT spending Read more...

Although the Homeland Security Department says it's been widely using independent verification and validation in its major information technology acquisition programs, Government Accountability Read more...

The Homeland Security Department's appropriations for the coming fiscal year could be reduced--in many cases significantly--under the House Appropriations Committee's markup of the department's Read more...

The Homeland Security Department has abandoned efforts to implement the departmentwide enterprise resource planning system known as Transformation and Systems Consolidation, said department spokesman Read more...

On-board inspections of ship crew docking in U.S. ports occurs without electronic tools to verify seafarer identity, says a Government Accountability Office report. In fiscal 2009 about 5 million Read more...

Homeland Security Department components continue to struggle with cybersecurity controls over their financial systems, according to annual independent auditor examination of DHS financial statements. Read more...

In a terse declassified summary of a classified report, the Homeland Security Department inspector general says the department maintains an effective information security management program for Read more...

Outside auditors found a material weakness in the Coast Guard financial system while auditing the military service's internal controls. Specifically, KPMG auditors--hired by the Homeland Security Read more...

An independent audit by the accounting firm KPMB finds weaknesses in the Department of Homeland Security's IT systems that might hurt its financial controls. For example, it says the Coast Guard's Read more...