CBP Awarded $15 Million to Update Revenue Collections in ACE
The General Services Administration has granted $15 million to CBP from the Technology Modernization Fund to pay for the work to move revenue collection at the agency from a mainframe computer to a more modern approach. Currently, CBP used ACE…
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to collect more than $80 billion in the last fiscal year, and the Automated Commercial System, which is the last mainframe segment of ACE, is used to collect tariffs, taxes and fees, CBP said in a July 31 news release. The ACS runs 3.9 million lines of COBOL, a 30-year-old programming language. By moving the revenue system to a cloud-based system, CBP will no longer use mainframe computers for any of its functions. It will “achieve operational efficiencies that will decrease its current software expenses and reduce other existing development and maintenance expenditures. CBP anticipates it will have a greater ability to serve its mission by modernizing the basic functionality of its collections system,” CBP said. The award was announced July 27.