The GAO said yesterday that Homeland Security has serious IT issues. We are not surprised that a federal agency that is made of 22 other federal agencies, including the trouble plagued INS, will have problems. MAny of the small businesses that we know of face these same issues albeit at a different scale.
Read more about the GAO's report from the source:
http://www.gao.gov/pas/2003/d03102.pdf
http://www.gao.gov/pas/2003/d0395.pdf
http://www.gao.gov/homelandsecurity.html