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DHS' SBINet Sticker Price: $7.6B

Wilson P. Dizard III writes on GCN.com:

Uncle Sam’s Homeland Security Department is growing up fast and wants to spend $7.6 billion of the “allowance” Congress will provide through fiscal 2011 to buy the SBINet border control technology it covets.

Not all of the $7.6 billion SBINet spending forecast represents new budget authority, according to an overview of the program that department officials provided to Congress Dec. 1.

For example, the DHS calculation states that $362 million of the total represents funds from prior budget years. Some of those funds may be carried over or represent assets or balances that could be applied to SBINet work.

But IT vendors likely will focus on the $3.56 billion penciled in for acquisition costs for 2008 through 2011 and the $1.4 billion set to be spent on SBINet Integrated Logistics support, according to the DHS plan.

posted by Fergie @ 12/05/2006 12:36:00 PM