HUD INFORMATION SYSTEMS: Immature Software Acquisition Capability Increases Project Risks

Abstract

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) routinely acquires new information systems and enhancements to manage and support its various programs and operations. GAO has designated HUD's major program areas as high risk, in part because the department's information and financial management systems were poorly integrated, ineffective, and generally unreliable. HUD has been endeavoring to improve its systems to better support its missions and management reforms. Because of the importance of information and financial management systems and related improvement efforts to meeting HUD's mission, the Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, requested that GAO review the maturity of HUD's software acquisition processes. More mature processes increase the likelihood that the software acquired will meet an organization's needs.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA394540

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Configuration Management
  • Contracts
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Financial Management
  • Information Systems
  • Life Cycles
  • Procurement
  • Project Management
  • Real Estate
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • United States

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Housing Policy Studies in Military Families with Privatization and Telomerase Allowance Units, Multi-Family Housing, and Telomere Lengths.