Current Projects
Review of a Financial Action Plan for The Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency, DHS

Client/Funder:
Immigration & Customs Enforcement

Purpose and Scope:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a branch of the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has asked the National Academy of Public Administration to conduct a study of its financial management structure and processes. A Financial Action Plan was created by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. The Academy is conducting an assessment to validate material weaknesses and corrective actions outlined in the plan.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for the management of ICE business systems, functions, and processes, including budget formulation and execution, financial management, asset management, and procurement. The office provides financial management services and systems support to a variety of DHS components. The CFO has established a FY 2006 goal of improving coordination and integration of the ICE budget, financial management and procurement business functions, and to achieve greater oversight, accountability and transparency of the ICE financial management functions. A key requirement for meeting this goal is the development of a solid financial and accounting foundation with documented internal controls, organizational structure and accountability to support a clean audit opinion. The CFO also must address all material weaknesses identified by the DHS Financial Audits in FY 2004 and FY 2005.

Project Director:
Russ Cherry

Panel:
C. Morgan Kinghorn,* Chair — President, National Academy of Public Administration. Former Partner, IBM Business Consulting Services; Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Commissioner and Controller, U.S. Internal Revenue Service; Assistant Director for Financial Management and Deputy Chief Financial Officer (Acting), U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Former Positions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Deputy Assistant Administrator for Administration and Resources Management; Assistant Administrator (Acting).

W. Scott Gould,* —  Vice President, Public Sector Strategy and Change, Global Leadership Initiative, IBM; Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government. Former Managing Director, AVA Partners; President and Chief Executive Officer, The O'Gara Company; Deputy to the Director for Modernization, Naval Criminal Investigative Service; Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Exolve Inc.; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce; White House Fellow; Assistant Receiver and Director of Operations, City of Chelsea, Massachusetts; Managing Associate, Theodore Barry and Associates, New York; Naval Officer, U.S. Navy.

Kristine Marcy* Consultant —  McConnell International. Former Chief Operating Officer, Small Business Administration; Senior Counsel, Detention and Deportation, Immigration and Naturalization Service; Assistant Director for Prisoner Services, U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Department of Justice; Associate Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice; Acting Director/Deputy Director, Office of Construction Management and Deputy Budget Director, U.S. Department of the Interior; Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education; Assistant Director, Human Resources, Veterans and Labor Group, U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Statement of Disclosure by Kristine Marcy: Kristine Marcy states:

I am working on a temporary (approximate 6 month) project as an employee of AVIEL Corporation reporting directly to the CEO, John Chapel.  Late last year, Mr. Chapel acquired the PMC Corporation; it is a wholly owned subsidiary of AVIEL.  PMC has active contracts with DHS including contracts for project management, acquisition support and financial management work for the OCIO and the OFO.  I checked to see what work was involved and was advised that the COTR for the work for OFO is Rita Swami of OCIO.  I was also advised that the OFM work includes work to address material weaknesses.  That said, I was not nor am I presently engaged in any operational decisions or oversight for that work.

My work for AVIEL includes customer relations, diversification of work (and identification of opportunities) in the federal community beyond DHS and organizational advice and assistance in trying to merge two organizations that have formed AVIEL (Optimus and PMC) and their respective cultures.  The work that I have accomplished to date is primarily in the area of trying to resolve organizational/personnel issues as a result of the merger.

PROJECT STAFF
Frank DiGiammarino, Responsible Staff Officer (frankd@napawash.org)
Russ Cherry, Project Director (rock.fish@verizon.net)
Richard Keevey, Senior Advisor (rkeevy@napawash.org)
Nathan D. Winstead, Research Associate (nwinstead@napawash.org)
Martha S. Ditmeyer, Project Associate (Mditmeyer@napawash.org)

* Academy Fellow