Data Management: DoD Should Redirect Its Efforts to Automate Technical Data Repositories.

Abstract

The Department of Defense's (DOD) technical data repositories (storage centers) are critical to increasing competition in DOD's approximately $22-billion annual spare-parts procurement process. Technical data include the specifications, engineering drawings, descriptions of manufacturing processes, and testing procedures necessary to competitively procure spare parts. Concern about DOD's technical data problems and their effect on competition for spare-parts procurements prompted the Chairman of the House Committee on Government Operations to ask GAO to determine whether: 1) DOD's management of technical data repository automation efforts is adequate and whether these efforts should be consolidated into a single program managed at the DOD level; 2) current repository automation efforts by the military departments and the Defense Logistics Agency are well defined, are based on validated requirements, and have used appropriate procurement methods; and 3) DOD and the Patent and Trademark Office should share studies (to include testing) of new technology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA168095

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Computers
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Data Management
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Analysis
  • Engineering Drawings
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Logistics
  • Optical Storage
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Systems Analysis and Design