Veterans Administration's Efforts to Improve the Management of Paper Records in the Department of Veterans Benefits. A Major System Acquisition Project.

Abstract

This effort is DVB's Micrographics and Automated Retrieval Systems (MARS) project, which is being conducted as a major system acquisition pursuant to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-109--a uniform, executive branch procurement policy. DVB's MARS project, estimated in 1980 to cost $26 million over 8 years, has not progressed sufficiently to permit a complete assessment. Further, there is considerable doubt regarding the future of the project because of fiscal year 1982 budget cuts. DVB's current efforts are to convert only loan guaranty files to micrographics. Loan guaranty files are a small portion (3.2 million files) of DVB's total active record holdings (19.2 million files). DVB does not intend to study the need to convert its remaining record holdings until micrographic centers have been established for the loan guaranty files.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1981
Accession Number
ADA107192

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Biomedical
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