$167 million
The estimated cost to have Pegasystems Inc. build the U.S. Census Bureau an electronic version of the 2020 Census. This amount is about $40 million more than the projected cost when the company was first hired in 2016. Additionally, it was found during 2018 testing that the website was hacked by Russian IP addresses. “He got into the network. He got into where the public is not supposed to go.”
The estimated cost to have Pegasystems Inc. build the U.S. Census Bureau an electronic version of the 2020 Census. This amount is about $40 million more than the projected cost when the company was first hired in 2016. Additionally, it was found during 2018 testing that the website was hacked by Russian IP addresses. “He got into the network. He got into where the public is not supposed to go.” (Reuters — December 4, 2019)
