That translates into fewer audits and collection cases and we estimate the government will lose at least 2 billion in revenue that otherwise would have been collected. Additionally, the reductions have forced us to make cuts in taxpayer service. This is troublesome because he we cant provide the Services Taxpayers need to fulfill their Tax Obligations voluntary compliance will fall. This concludes my statements that i would be happy to take your questions. Mr. Estevez . Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss a couple of years of highrisk identified by gao specifically supply Chain Management, weapons acquisition. The department of defense has made measurable progress in addressing these areas as well as in the areas of Contractor Management and infrastructure. The department is dedicated to improving our supply chain and acquisition processes to ensure effective support for our warfighters. Supply Chain Management and Weapon System acquisition of complex
Implementation to goad and exhort and encourage. I think thats really good. With respect to the whole subject, you are familiar with the document issued december 10. Yes, im familiar with it. I assume that you and your i. T. Expert let me not assume assume. Was that a helpful document in terms of laying out goals and objectives . Yes. You concur. It set the foundation for key initiatives going forward. And for example when it talks about we ought to approve funding of major i. T. Programs only when it meets three basic criteria. Right . Have a dedicated manager parnd a fully staffed integrated program team, use a modular approach with usable functionality delivered every six months. I think they mean by that, break up huge multiyear complex Systems Integration contracts so that theyre easier to manage. And thirdly, use specialized i. T. Acquisition professionals. Are those do you think those are three helpful criteria whether we are looking at issuing a major procurement . I did. Absol
Basically it relates to the activities counter by the activities or overseeing this by activities of another group so one group does not have full control over this or a process where this is being processed because they could potentially make undetected changes to the Software Processing data and we dont want that to happen. So developers in this case should be confined to a development environment. My understanding, my children will till you but i have no technological knowledge, but kind of like a submarine when there is a leak in one area you can close off that section and in another area where the leak occurs doesnt infect the other areas. Is that occurring now in the federal agencies with the situation . Yes, and several there are about 14 agencies that have weaknesses in segregation control. And they have an example that you highlighted that exude a sense and that is another Security Defense principle that agencies support layer upon layer of security controls in the event that
I sent you a text and i want to compliment you actually, sent you ton ean email. I want to compliment you that on a weekend you responded via email, which was shockingly surprising, and i just want to say thank you. Do you have the automatic reenrollment numbers that ive been requesting from cms . Have they given those to you . Mr. Meadows thanks for the question, and happy to be accessible whenever you need. The answer is i think were still working on it. That is part of the agency, obviously, that i dont have direct oversight over. My understanding is youve had numerous conversations with the ceo of the marketplace, kevin kuninen, and they are working on assembling those numbers. Our focus is getting the numbers out to you and the public, but making sure theyre accurate when we do. So what youre saying is you have not seen the numbers for the automatic reenrollment. Youve never seen any totals . I have not, no. Its my understanding that weve had those numbers and weve been trying for
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