United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1994-01-21 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:AIMD-94-14 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-94-14 P0b002ee18037f694 f:ai94014 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-94-14 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-94-14 AIMD-94-14 Information systems analysis Defense communications operations Computer networks Standards evaluation Requirements definition Systems compatibility Data integrity Information resources management Management information systems Data bases DOD Corporate Information Management Initiative Defense Data Repository System Desert Shield Desert Storm CIM Letter Report AIMD 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. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-94-14/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-94-14.htm GAO/AIMD-94-14 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-94-14 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-94-14; Defense IRM: Management Commitment Needed to Achieve Defense Data Administration Goals; Information systems analysis Defense communications operations Computer networks Standards evaluation Requirements definition Systems compatibility Data integrity Information resources management Management information systems Data bases DOD Corporate Information Management Initiative Defense Data Repository System Desert Shield Desert Storm CIM