How many DHS contractors are there really?
In an addition mix-up, a consulting firm reported DHS contractors number more than 210,000. The real figure was later found to be about 100,000.
The Virginia-based consulting firm LMI may need to brush up on its adding skills after it misrepresented the amount of contractors at the Homeland Security Department by about 100,000, reports the Federal Times blog Fedline.
DHS hosts about 110,000 contractors, not the original 210,000 figure given by LMI, itself a DHS contractor.
According to the Fedline blog, the firm blamed the miscalculation on a faulty algorithm it used and Congress was notified about the problem in January.