The Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Homeland
Security, Andy Maner, has announced that he will resign his
post on March 3.
The White House announced the nomination of the Department of
Defense’s deputy undersecretary of defense for budget and
appropriations affairs, David L. Norquist, as the new homeland
security CFO.
Maner was appointed by President Bush in January 2004, and his
post is responsible for all budget, finance and accounting,
strategic planning and evaluation, bankcard programs, financial
systems, and was the Government Accountability Office liaison
for the department.
He has also been charged with the on-going integration of all
those functions within the third largest cabinet agency with
its 180,000 employees and nearly $40 billion budget.
DHS Secretary Michael L. Chertoff credited Maner with “lasting
contributions to homeland security, including creating Customs
and Border Protection’s One Face at the Border, setting up
department-wide systems to consolidate financial data and
strengthening controls against fiscal waste, fraud and abuse.”
DHS has yet to comply with requirements in the DHS Financial
Accountability Act enacted in October 2004, applying the Chief
Financial Officers Act of 1990 to DHS and requiring the
department to have a Senate-confirmed CFO reporting directly
to the secretary.
