Disputing GAO, CBP Official says Risks, Costs Understood in Arizona Border Tech Plan.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has planned for various risks to its new technology plan for better securing the nation's southwest border and so far actual costs are likely to be lower than the $1.5 billion initially thought for the project, the agency's top acquisition official says.

Mark Borkowski, assistant commissioner of CBP's Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition, says a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report focused on the worst potential risks in the Arizona Border Surveillance Technology Plan, which the agency believes is not that risky of an endeavor.

For example, in terms of cost, "while we maybe didn't measure the risk, we certainly did accommodate it," Borkowski tells the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on …