Information Technology: Key Federal Agencies Need to Address Potentially Duplicative Investments

Abstract

The federal government budgets more than $82 billion annually for IT. Given the magnitude of this investment, it is important that federal agencies avoid investing in duplicative systems to ensure the most efficient use of resources. GAO's prior work has shown that agencies were funding IT investments that perform similar functions, thus raising concern that these agencies were investing in unnecessary systems. This work also raised questions about whether agencies have similar potentially duplicative investments in other areas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
AD1151989

Entities

People

  • David A. Powner
  • Gary Mountjoy
  • James Macaulay
  • Rebecca Eyler
  • Scott Borre
  • Teresa Smith

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

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  • Accountability
  • Best Practices
  • Biometric Security
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Commodities
  • Computers
  • Data Centers
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Disaster Management
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Steady State
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.