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 1995-04-24 monographic deposited born digital 29 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-95-97 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-97 P0b002ee18038588d f:ai95097 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-97 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-97 AIMD-95-97 Federal agency reorganization Telecommunication Federal procurement Cost control Cost effectiveness analysis Agricultural programs Information resources management Systems management Telecommunication equipment Federal Telecommunications System 2000 FTS 2000 USDA Info Share Program Other Written Product AIMD To its credit, the Agriculture Department (USDA) has identified opportunities to significantly reduce telecommunications costs by consolidating and optimizing its FTS 2000 telecommunications services. However, USDA has not pursued all those options and, as a result, is wasting millions of dollars each year. USDA has hundreds of field offices where multiple USDA agencies, located in the same building or geographic site, obtain and use separate, and often redundant, telecommunications services. USDA officials estimate that the agency could, during the next four years, save up to $800,000 each month--as much as 26 percent of the agency's total annual FTS 2000 telecommunications costs--or a total of $40 million. USDA's Office of Information Resources Management, which manages the agency's telecommunications resources, has not effectively carried out its responsibility to reduce telecommunications costs. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-97/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-97.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-97/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-97.pdf GAO/AIMD-95-97 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-97 Other Written Product GAO/AIMD-95-97; USDA Telecommunications: Missed Opportunities to Save Millions; Federal agency reorganization Telecommunication Federal procurement Cost control Cost effectiveness analysis Agricultural programs Information resources management Systems management Telecommunication equipment Federal Telecommunications System 2000 FTS 2000 USDA Info Share Program Volume 108 Page 3209 108 Stat. 3209 Public Law 103-354 Title 7 Part 2700 7 CFR Part 2700