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ADP Standards: Army Cancels Restrictive 3-Tier Architecture Standards

IMTEC-88-13 Published: May 17, 1988. Publicly Released: Jun 21, 1988.
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In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army's 3-tier architecture policy for processing and exchanging data among its various automated systems and its associated standards to: (1) determine whether they complied with the Brooks Act, the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, and federal regulations; (2) evaluate their potential long-term effects on automatic data processing (ADP) procurements; (3) provide a perspective on prior Department of Defense (DOD) and Army standards; and (4) determine whether the Army continued to refer to the 3-tier architecture standards after it withdrew them in 1987.

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Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should take steps to review Army ADP procurements in order to ensure that the Army is complying with federal and defense ADP procurement regulations regarding the specification of proprietary products.
Closed – Implemented
The Secretary of the Army directed the Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence to come up with new standards.

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Army procurementInformation systemsIT acquisitionsManagement information systemsNoncomplianceProcurement regulationsStandards evaluationSystems designStandards (information technology)Military forces