http://cryptome.org/gao-10-567t.pdf
I did a quick read of this document.
The census (April 1, 2010) is costing the Americans close to $15 Billion dollars. It seems pretty clear that there are going to be serious cost overruns.
The Report repeatedly refers to the census as a “head count”.
Always there is reference to “The Census Bureau” that is running the show. No explicit mention of the corporations that are doing the work for the Americans, like Lockheed Martin Corp and IBM. No surprise. There is mention of “The partnerships” but in the context of encouraging people to participate in the census.
“Bureau officials stated that DAPPS performance shortfalls were a result of three major issues, involving system hardware, software, and the operating system.” These happen to be three of the main things that Lockheed Martin and IBM are involved in, for the Canadian census.