http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100924_7678.php?oref=mostread
WHY? Because their buddies in the military industrial complex might get caught double dipping for the same contract.
House Democrats this month went over the heads of Homeland Security Department officials and appealed directly to the White House to cancel a financial management system project that could cost as much as $1 billion.
DHS plans to award a contract this year for consolidating the financial management networks at component agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement into one megasystem. House Judiciary Committee leaders have questioned for months whether the effort violates a White House order issued on June 28 to halt the development of all financial systems governmentwide so that departments can rework the historically troubled modernizations to avoid wasting billions of dollars.
Financial systems are intended to gather daily financial transaction data that take place throughout departments so that agencies can produce a set of statements that can be independently audited, officials at the Office of Management and Budget recently said.
