Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve the Accuracy and Reliability of Investment Information

Abstract

Each year, agencies submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a Capital Asset Plan and Business Case - the exhibit 300 - to justify each request for a major information technology (IT) investment. The exhibits content should reflect controls that agencies have established to ensure good project management, as well as showing that they have defined cost, schedule, and performance goals. . It is thus a tool to help OMB and agencies identify and correct poorly planned or performing investments. In its budget and oversight role, OMB relies on the accuracy and completeness of this information. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which selected agencies have underlying support for the information in their fiscal year 2006 exhibit 300s. From five major departments having over $1 billion in IT expenditures in that year, GAO chose for analysis 29 exhibits for projects that supported a cross section of federal activities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
AD1180684

Entities

People

  • Barbara Collier
  • Carol A. Cha
  • Chris Owens
  • David A. Powner
  • Joseph Cruz
  • Kevin Walsh
  • Lester Diamond
  • Linda Lambert
  • Mark Shaw
  • Martin Yeung
  • Sandra Kerr
  • Tammi Nguyen
  • Valerie Hopkins

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Communication Systems
  • Congress
  • Cost Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Electronic Mail
  • Federal Budgets
  • Financial Management
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Money
  • National Governments
  • Organizational Structure
  • Project Management
  • Risk Management
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.