Defense ADP: Corporate Information Management Must Overcome Major Problems
IMTEC-92-77
Published: Sep 14, 1992. Publicly Released: Oct 15, 1992.
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Highlights
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the Department of Defense's (DOD) progress in implementing the Corporate Information Management (CIM) initiative, which will help DOD streamline operations and manage resources more efficiently.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of Defense | DOD needs to redirect its implementation of CIM so that it can improve its existing systems in the short term while laying the foundation for business improvements in the long term and begin to achieve some of the estimated $36 billion in savings related to CIM. To do so, the Secretary of Defense should develop a management policy that clearly delineates how the roles and responsibilities of OSD senior functional officials, the services, and DOD agencies should change to implement CIM. This policy should require business processes to be reengineered before new information systems are developed or implemented. |
Closed – Not Implemented
This report's recommendations have been superseded by the recommendations in the follow-on report, GAO/AIMD/NSIAD-84-101.
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| Department of Defense | DOD needs to redirect its implementation of CIM so that it can improve its existing systems in the short term while laying the foundation for business process improvements in the long term and begin to achieve some of the estimated $36 billion in savings related to CIM. To do so, the Secretary of Defense should establish controls for appropriated funds and Defense Business Operations Fund that enable senior functional officials to implement this management policy. |
Closed – Not Implemented
This report's recommendations have been superseded by the recommendations in the follow-on report, GAO/AIMD/NSIAD-94-101.
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| Department of Defense | DOD needs to redirect its implementation of CIM so that it can improve its existing systems in the short term while laying the foundation for business process improvements in the long term and begin to achieve some of the estimated $36 billion savings related to CIM. To do so, the Secretary of Defense should complete an implementation strategy for migration systems and elements of the Executive Level Group model, and withhold funds for any new information system development efforts, including the implementation of migration systems, until justified by technical and cost-benefit analyses. |
Closed – Not Implemented
The recommendations in this report have been superseded by the recommendations in the follow-on report GAO/AIMD/NSIAD-94-101.
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| Department of Defense | DOD needs to redirect its implementation of CIM so that it can improve its existing systems in the short term while laying the foundation for business process improvements in the long term and begin to achieve some of the estimated $36 billion in savings related to CIM. To do so, the Secretary of Defense should report to the Congress by March 31, 1993, the justification for selecting these migration systems, including cost-benefits, technical risks, performance measurements, and milestones that can be used to evaluate the implementation of these systems. |
Closed – Implemented
DOD issued a report in August 1993 that only identifies what programs money has been obligated against. DOD also sent a report to Congress in January 1994 outlining what progress is being made in each functional area.
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