If its anything like the UK it will take them ten years and cost several billion dollars
It would cost millions of pounds, the people allocated to the project would sit on their hands for the first month or so before anyone bothers to develop a plan and several millions later they would decide to scrap the plan because by now everyone has their tax payer funded yacht and it's becoming too obvious it was never meant to produce results.
To ensure the NAO gives it a clean bill of health regardless, you "retire" one of your senior people when the project is just underway, and he or she than "happens" to take up a top job at the NAO. Once there, you brief the people in the project before you run the audit, and, of course, you choose the most inexperienced people to perform the audit.
It's really easy if you have the right friends. Surely you don't think certain people have to establish their own private bank just because they are so good at saving, do you?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
