FDA Cost Cutting to Cause Nightly Processing Shutdowns in ACE CERT Environment
The FDA will not be processing transactions sent from CBP's certification testing environment as the FDA's non-production downstream servers will be shutting down daily from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. and throughout the weekends, CBP said in a June 30 cargo systems message.
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This action is occurring because the FDA is deploying an IT cost optimization plan, the CSMS message said.
Testing with FDA in the non-production environment may be done by trade partners from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays, CBP said. There is no impact on the production environment.