Funding Schemes for Future ITDS Development Under Consideration at DHS, OMB
There are ongoing discussions of how to best pay for future development of the International Trade Data System and ACE, said Christa Brzozowski, deputy assistant secretary for trade policy at the Department of Homeland Security. "We've been having some interesting…
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discussions with [the Office of Management and Budget] on funding models, how to make this something of a collective funding scheme to make sure we can do more than maintenance and current operations and really accommodate trade, PGA and CBP needs in the out years," she said. "Institutionalizing the governance and the funding structure are critical elements," she said. Brzozowski described some of the future considerations for ITDS and ACE during the July 27 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting in Boston. While the Border Interagency Executive Council is focused on ITDS, "frankly there's a lot of fatigue on this issue," so "we need to push past that going into the next year," she said.