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SBInet Continues To Struggle, GAO Says

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Friday, June 18th, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker For all the changes it made in its program management structure, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) electronic border security fence called SBInet continues to struggle, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official said yesterday. Despite the new program leadership, which was added 18 months ago, SBInet has "struggled to right itself," Randolph Hite, director of Information Technology Architecture and System Issues at GAO, told a House Homeland Security panel. Hite listed a host of problems with the…

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Congress

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