Customs gets ready to play its ACE

Customs gets ready to play its ACE

  • May 11, 2001
By Preeti Vasishtha

GCN Staff


MAY 11—Software development for the Customs Service's Automated Commercial Environment will begin after a 60-day planning period to set the requirements.

For the next two months, Customs will work with prime contractor IBM Corp. on program management and enterprise engineering plans, said Charles Armstrong, executive director of Customs' modernization office. He spoke yesterday at the spring meeting of the Council for Electronic Revenue Communication Advancement in Arlington, Va.

The service late last month awarded a $1.3 billion, 15-year contract to IBM for the modernization, which will replace the 17-year-old Automated Commercial System.

Customs plans to ask Congress for $80 million in supplemental funding, Armstrong said. The service's modernization budget is $138 million this fiscal year.


Featured

  • Records management: Look beyond the NARA mandates

    Records management is about to get harder

    New collaboration technologies ramped up in the wake of the pandemic have introduced some new challenges.

  • puzzled employee (fizkes/Shutterstock.com)

    Phish Scale: Weighing the threat from email scammers

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Phish Scale quantifies characteristics of phishing emails that are likely to trick users.

Stay Connected

Sign up for our newsletter.

I agree to this site's Privacy Policy.