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"&lt;img alt=\"black-billiard-ball.gif\" src=\"/images/public_html/riskfactor/black-billiard-ball.gif\" width=\"101\" height=\"101\" /&gt;\nIn the &lt;a href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc20071214_567370.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story\"&gt;first&lt;/a&gt; of a three-part series on the Department of Homeland Security (&lt;a href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/index.shtm\"&gt;DHS&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/\"&gt;BusinessWeek&lt;/a&gt; notes that some $3 billion in DHS information technology contracts, \"accounting for 60% of the agency's 2008 IT budget, are &lt;a href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/table/07/1217_homelandsecurity.htm\"&gt;underperforming&lt;/a&gt;\u00E2''whether because they're behind schedule, over budget, or lack a qualified project manager or definable parameters. In dollar terms, Homeland Security accounts for about half of the troubled government IT projects &lt;a href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/b-1-information.html\"&gt;tracked&lt;/a&gt; by the Office of Management &amp; Budget (&lt;a href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/\"&gt;OMB&lt;/a&gt;).\"\n\nThe article goes on to quote &lt;a href=\"http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.855237/apps/nl/content3.asp?content_id=%7BF8434F15-2B6F-4AE5-A79B-04D89851606F%7D&amp;notoc=1\"&gt;Clark Ervin&lt;/a&gt;, who was DHS Inspector General from &amp;hellip;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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