Defense IRM: Management Commitment Needed to Achieve Defense Data
Administration Goals (Letter Report, 01/21/94, GAO/AIMD-94-14).

The Pentagon, challenged with maintaining a strong military at a time of
shrinking resources, began its Corporate Information Management (CIM)
initiative to help streamline operations and manage resources more
efficiently.  Despite two years of effort, the Defense Department (DOD)
has made little progress toward achieving its corporate data
administration goals.  DOD functional managers have not uniformly
followed the CIM model to document their business goals, methods, and
performance measures--the essential first step to pinpointing the data
they need to support their missions.  Rather than resolving this
fundamental problem, DOD personnel are pursuing data administration
activities that are wasteful and ineffective and do not support the
Pentagon's corporate data administration goals.  Unless DOD's functional
managers follow through on CIM implementation within their respective
mission areas, DOD will not achieve its data administration goals.

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 REPORTNUM:  AIMD-94-14
     TITLE:  Defense IRM: Management Commitment Needed to Achieve 
             Defense Data Administration Goals
      DATE:  01/21/94
   SUBJECT:  Information systems analysis
             Defense communications operations
             Computer networks
             Standards evaluation
             Requirements definition
             Systems compatibility
             Data integrity
             Information resources management
             Management information systems
             Data bases
IDENTIFIER:  DOD Corporate Information Management Initiative
             Defense Data Repository System
             Desert Shield
             Desert Storm
             CIM
             
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