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Homeland Security

DHS Establishes More Rigorous Acquisition Process

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Friday, January 9th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker Following a year of analyses and reviews of how it goes about buying capital assets and services, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last November issued new guidance aimed at instituting a more rigorous approach to how it does roughly $15 billion annually in acquisitions from cradle to grave. The new directive outlines formal procedures that all emerging requirements and potential programs must go through at several Acquisition Decision Events (ADE) as well as what objectives must…

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