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Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
May 11, 2007
Congressional Committees
For decades, the Department of Defense (DOD) has been challenged in
modernizing its timeworn business systems.' In 1995, we designated DOD's
business systems modernization program as high risk, and we continue to
designate it as such today.2 As our research on public and private sector
organizations shows, one essential ingredient to a successful systems
modernization program is having an effective institutional approach to
managing information technology (IT) investments.
In May 2001, we recommended that the department establish a corporate
approach to investment control and decision making.3 Between 2001 and
2005, we reported that the department's business systems modernization
program was still not being effectively managed,4 and we made additional
investment-related recommendations. Congress subsequently included
provisions in the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act
'Business systems are information systems that include financial and nonfinancial systems
and support DOD's business operations, such as civilian personnel, finance, health,
logistics, military personnel, procurement, and transportation.
2GAO, High-Risk Series: An Update, GAO-07-310 (Washington, D.C.: January 2007).
3GAO, Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide Modernization of DOD's
Financial Operations, GAO-01-525 (Washington, D.C.: May 17, 2001).
4See, for example, GAO, DOD Business Systems Modernization: Long-standing
Weaknesses in Enterprise Architecture Development Need to Be Addressed, GAO-05-702
(Washington, D.C.: July 22, 2005); DOD Business Systems Modernization: Billions Being
Invested without Adequate Oversight, GAO-05-381 (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 29, 2005); DOD
Business Systems Modernization: Limited Progress in Development of Business
Enterprise Architecture and Oversight of Information Technology Investments,
GAO-04-731R (Washington, D.C.: May 17, 2004); DOD Business Systems Modernization:
Important Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work
Remains, GAO-03-1018 (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 19, 2003); Business Systems
Modernization: Summary of GAO's Assessment of the Department of Defense's Initial
Business Enterprise Architecture, GAO-03-877R (Washington, D.C.: July 7, 2003);
Information Technology: Observations on Department of Defense's Draft Enterprise
Architecture, GAO-03-571R (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 28, 2003); DOD Business Systems
Modernization: Improvements to Enterprise Architecture Development and
Implementation Efforts Needed, GAO-03-458 (Washington, D.C.: Feb. 28, 2003); and
GAO-01-525.GAO-07-538 Business Systems Modernization
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