BUSINESS SYSTEMS MODERNIZATION: DOD Continues to Improve Institutional Approach, but Further Steps Needed

Abstract

For decades, the Department of Defense (DOD) has not been successful in repeated attempts to modernize its timeworn business systems and operations. In 1995, we first designated DOD's business systems modernization as "high risk," and we continue to designate it as such today. As our research on successful public and private sector organizations has shown, attempting a large-scale systems modernization program in a large organization such as DOD without, among other things, a well-defined enterprise architecture and the associated investment management controls for implementing it often results in systems that are duplicative, stovepiped, non-integrated, and unnecessarily costly to manage, maintain, and operate. In May 2001, we made recommendations to the Secretary of Defense that provided the means for effectively developing and implementing an enterprise architecture and limiting systems investments until the department had a well-defined architecture and a corporate approach to investment control and decision making.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2006
Accession Number
AD1156909

Entities

People

  • Randolph Hite

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

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  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Management Personnel
  • Money
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

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