FDA has spent $160 million from fiscal 2002 through fiscal 2010 on a program designed to get rid of outdated IT systems and replace them with new ones, but “considerable work remains” on some of its most important goals, the Government Accountability Office says in a report prepared at the request of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
As of last August, FDA estimated that the Mission Accomplishments and Regulatory Compliance Services program, which started in 2002, will cost a total of $282.7 million and take until October 2016 for its “initial development completion date,” with the final “investment completion date” set for September 2019