Defense Management. Impediments Jeopardize Logistics Corporate Information Management.
Abstract
In 1992, the Department of Defense (DOD) projected that its Corporate Information Management (CIM) initiative would enable it to save $36 billion by fiscal year 1997. According to the Joint Logistics Systems Center (JLSC), established to help achieve CIM goals, as much as $28 billion would be saved by improving DOD'S logistics functions. Today, however, DOD is neither projecting nor tracking CIM savings. DOD officials acknowledge that the CIM initiative will be difficult to implement, and it may be many years before the majority of savings materialize. Because of concerns about the CIM progress, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs asked GAO to review the CIM initiative, focusing on the DOD logistics function of materiel management. Because DOD had established one organization, JLSC, to oversee the improvement of its logistics functions of materiel management and depot maintenance, this report discusses these two functions. GAO'S specific objectives were to identity (1) improvements made to business processes and supporting information systems and (2) impediments, if any, to achieving expected CIM results. (MM)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA296926
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office