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Homeland Security: Despite Progress, DHS Continues to Be Challenged in Managing Its Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Investment in Large-Scale Information Technology Systems, Statement of Randolph C. Hite, Director, Information Technology Architecture and Systems Issues, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, September 15, 2009
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) invested more than $6 billion in 2009 on large-scale, information technology (IT) systems to help it achieve mission outcomes and transform departmentwide operations. For DHS to effectively leverage these systems as mission enablers and transformation tools, it needs to employ a number of institutional acquisition and IT management controls and capabilities, such as using an operational and technological blueprint to guide and constrain system investments (enterprise architecture) and following institutional policies, practices, and structures for acquiring and investing in these systems. Other institutional controls and capabilities include employing rigorous and disciplined system life cycle management processes and having capable acquisition and IT management workforces. As GAO has reported, it is critical for the department to implement these controls and capabilities on each of its system acquisition programs. GAO has issued a series of reports on DHS institutional controls for acquiring and managing IT systems, and its implementation of these controls on large-scale systems. GAO was asked to testify on how far the department has come on both of these fronts, including its implementation of GAO's recommendations. To do this, GAO drew from its issued reports on institutional IT controls and IT systems, as well as our recurring work to follow up on the status of our open recommendations."
United States. Government Accountability Office
Hite, Randolph C.
2009-09-15
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Secure Border Initiative: DHS Needs to Address Significant Risks in Delivering Key Technology Investment, Statement of Randolph C. Hite, Director, Information Technology Architecture and System Issues, Testimony before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives
"The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Secure Border Initiative (SBI) is a multiyear, multibillion-dollar program to secure the nation's borders through, among other things, new technology, increased staffing, and new fencing and barriers. The technology component of SBI, which is known as SBInet, involves the acquisition, development, integration, and deployment of surveillance systems and command, control, communications, and intelligence technologies. GAO was asked to testify on its draft report, which assesses DHS's efforts to (1) define the scope, timing, and life cycle management approach for planned SBInet capabilities and (2) manage SBInet requirements and testing activities. In preparing the draft report, GAO reviewed key program documentation, including guidance, plans, and requirements and testing documentation, interviewed program officials, analyzed a random probability sample of system requirements, and observed operations of the initial SBInet project."
United States. Government Accountability Office
Hite, Randolph C.
2008-09-10
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Homeland Security: Prospects for Biometric US-VISIT Exit Capability Remain Unclear, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism, Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has spent and continues to invest hundreds of millions of dollars each year in its U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program to collect, maintain, and share information on selected foreign nationals who enter and exit the United States at over 300 air, sea, and land ports of entry (POEs). The program uses biometric identifiers (digital finger scans and photographs) to screen people against watch lists and to verify that a visitor is the person who was issued a visa or other travel document. GAO's testimony addresses the status of US-VISIT entry and exit capabilities and DHS's management of past and future exit efforts. In developing its testimony, GAO drew from eight prior reports on US-VISIT as well as ongoing work for the committee. In light of the department's longstanding challenges in delivering an operational exit capability and the uncertainty surrounding its future exit efforts, GAO urges the department to approach its latest attempt at deploying mission critical exit capabilities with the kind of rigor and discipline that GAO has previously recommended."
United States. Government Accountability Office
Hite, Randolph C.; Stana, Richard M.
2007-06-28
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Information Technology: FBI Is Building Management Capabilities Essential to Successful System Deployments, but Challenges Remain, Statement of Randolph C. Hite, Director, Information Technology Architecture and Systems Issues, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies, House of Representatives
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the process of modernizing its information technology (IT) systems. Replacing much of its 1980s-based technology with modern system applications and supporting technical infrastructure, this modernization is intended to enable the FBI to take an integrated, agency-wide approach to performing its critical missions, such as federal crime investigation and terrorism prevention. At the request of the Congress, GAO has conducted a series of reviews of the FBI's modernization management. GAO was requested to testify on the bureau's progress to date in several areas of IT management. In addition, GAO discusses the importance of these areas for maximizing the prospects for success of the bureaus ongoing and future IT system investments, including the FBI's flagship Sentinel program; this program replaces the bureaus failed Virtual Case File project and aims to acquire and deploy a modern investigative case management system. In this testimony, GAO relied extensively on its previous work on the FBI's management of its IT processes, human capital, and tools, and it obtained updates on these efforts through reviews of documentation and interviews with responsible FBI officials, including the Chief Information Officer (CIO)."
United States. Government Accountability Office
Hite, Randolph C.
2005-09-14
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Post-hearing Question From the May 8, 2003, Hearing on Barriers to Information Sharing at the Department of Homeland Security
This is a letter from Randolph C. Hite, Director of Information Technology Architecture and Systems Issues at the GAO, to Tom Davis, Chairman of the Committee on Government Reform in the House of Representatives. Director Hite responds to a question posed by Representative Michael Turner which asks if Hite believes that the Department of Homeland Security should also be consolidating other "stovepiped" databases in order to more easily share information among the different agencies.
United States. General Accounting Office
Hite, Randolph C.
2003-07-07
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