DOD Business Transformation: A Comprehensive, Integrated, and Enterprisewide Business Transformation Plan Coupled With Sustained Senior Leadership Attention Are Needed to Strengthen Ongoing Efforts

Abstract

Of the 25 areas on GAO's 2005 high-risk list of federal programs or activities that are at risk for waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement, 8 are Department of Defense (DOD) programs or operations and 6 are governmentwide high-risk areas for which DOD shares some responsibility. These high-risk areas relate to DOD's major business operations. DOD's failure to effectively resolve these high-risk areas results in billions of dollars of waste each year, ineffective performance, and inadequate accountability. At a time when DOD is competing for resources in an increasingly fiscally constrained environment, it is critically important that DOD get the most from every defense dollar. DOD has taken several positive steps and devoted substantial resources toward establishing key management structures and processes to successfully transform its business operations and address its high-risk areas, but overall progress by area varies widely and huge challenges remain.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Jun 13, 2006
• Accession Number: AD1166500

Entities

People

• David M. Walker

Organizations

• United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Base Closures
• Best Practices
• Business Administration
• Civilian Personnel
• Combatant Commanders
• Congress
• Department Of Defense
• Financial Management
• Governments
• Information Systems
• Law
• Logistics
• Management Personnel
• Military Personnel
• National Security
• Organizational Structure
• Supply Chain
• Supply Chain Management
• Systems Management
• Test And Evaluation
• United States Government

Readers

• Defense Financial Management and Audit.
• Systems Analysis and Design