Defense Business Transformation: Status of Department of Defense Efforts to Develop a Management Approach to Guide Business Transformation
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DOD) spends billions of dollars to maintain key business operations that support the warfighter. The GAO has reported on weaknesses in DOD's business operations that result in billions of dollars being wasted annually, reduced efficiencies, ineffective performance, inadequate accountability, and a lack of transparency. Currently, DOD has sole responsibility for 8, and shares responsibility for another 7, of the federal government's 27 programs or activities GAO has identified as being at high risk for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. In 2005, GAO 3 added DOD's management approach to business transformation to our high-risk list because 1) DOD's improvement efforts were fragmented, 2) DOD lacked an integrated and enterprise wide transformation plan and investment strategy, and 3) DOD had not designated a senior management official at an appropriate level with the authority to be responsible and accountable for enterprise-wide business transformation. From August 2008 through December 2008, the GAO reviewed DOD's progress in transforming its business operations under the authority of the Comptroller General to conduct evaluations on his own initiative.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 09, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA493305
Entities
People
- Angela Watson
- Deborah Yarborough
- Grace Coleman
- Joseph Watkins
- K. N. Harms
- Sharon L. Pickup
- Suzanne Perkins
- Terry Richardson