Short Diary, but interesting: Congress is in the middle of upgrading its financial systems. The old system, Congressional Accounting and Personnel System (CAPS) is being phased out and replaced by Oracle’s Hyperion system. From Congress’ Chief Admin Officer’s report last year:
“Staff who handle finances in House offices will have a powerful new tool to help them. Hyperion software is a faster and more efficient way to plan office budgets with real-time numbers that can easily be adjusted to offices’ changing needs. The Office of Finance is currently testing the system. It is scheduled to go live with phase 1 of the project on October 1, 2015. The system will launch with the Office of Budget Policy and Planning (BPP) along with all House Fiscal Year Offices. Phase 2 will be an expanded rollout for Member, Committee and Leadership (MCL) offices and other non-CAO offices for the replacement of the Congressional Accounting and Personnel System (CAPS) budgeting functionality.”
In the current fiscal year, $1.3M is appropriated for the work. And guess who’s doing the work? Good ole USofA technology workers — right? Wrong. The contractor is using all H-1B visa workers.
Fucking Republicans. Bad enough Disney pulls this shit, now our own government is outsourcing technology work.