Senate to review Defense Travel System
13th Nov 2006, 23:55 GMT
The Defense Travel System, the Defense Department’s all-in-one Web-based travel management solution, will face congressional scrutiny this week, as DOD officials head to Capitol Hill to answer senators’ questions on the long-embattled program. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), will hold the hearing, “The Defense Travel System: Boon or Boondoggle,” Nov. 16. David Chu, undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, and Thomas Gimble, acting DOD inspector general, will testify. The hearing is a follow-on to a Sept. 29 hearing in which the committee determined that DOD proceeded with DTS implementation in the face of warnings from the DOD inspector general and the secretary of Defense’s Program Analysis and Evaluation section that the program might not be the best travel solution for the department, according to the committee’s Web site. “DTS has cost more than was anticipated, is not fully deployed, does not appear to be widely used and may end up costing more than it has saved,” the Web site states. Sen...
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