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 1996-11-14 monographic deposited born digital 30 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-97-6 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-97-6 P0b002ee18038ba2d f:ai97006 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-97-6 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-97-6 AIMD-97-6 Defense procurement Defense cost control Defense economic analysis Logistics Privatization Information resources management Strategic information systems planning Reengineering (management) DOD Air Loading Module DOD Corporate Information Management Initiative Air Force Cargo Movements Operations System DOD Logistics Corporate Information Management Migration Master Plan Air Force Stock Control and Distribution System DOD Materiel Management Standard System DOD Depot Maintenance Resource Planning System DOD Depot Maintenance Standard System CIM Letter Report AIMD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's efforts over the last 4 years to improve its informations systems in the depot maintenance, materiel management, and transportation business areas, focusing on whether selected standard information systems will allow DOD to meet its business objective to dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its logistics operations.<p/>GAO found that: (1) DOD's continued deployment of information systems using a migration strategy for the depot maintenance, materiel management, and transportation business areas will not likely produce the significant improvements originally envisioned; (2) DOD has acknowledged that its migration systems strategy will not provide necessary dramatic improvements and cost reductions and is now emphasizing alternative ways of improving logistics business operations, such as turning to the private sector to carry out major logistics functions; (3) DOD is continuing to deploy information systems selected under the migration strategy that are linked to the very same business functions it wishes to make more efficient and economical through outsourcing or privatization; (4) DOD is exploring alternative ways to improve its logistics operations, but GAO is concerned that the current path needlessly risks wasting a substantial amount of the more than $7.7 billion DOD plans to invest in improving automated logistics systems; (5) DOD still has not taken the fundamental steps necessary to ensure that the automated systems it continues to deploy will yield a positive return on investment, and it has not yet sufficiently tied these new efforts to its overall business objectives through the use of a strategic investment strategy; and (6) without addressing these concerns, DOD's new improvement efforts, like the failed standard migration strategy, will proceed with little chance of achieving the objectives originally envisioned for substantial operational improvements and reduction in costs. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-97-6/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-97-6.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-97-6/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-97-6.pdf GAO/AIMD-97-6 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-97-6 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-97-6; Defense IRM: Strategy Needed for Logistics Information Technology Improvement Efforts; Defense procurement Defense cost control Defense economic analysis Logistics Privatization Information resources management Strategic information systems planning Reengineering (management) DOD Air Loading Module DOD Corporate Information Management Initiative Air Force Cargo Movements Operations System DOD Logistics Corporate Information Management Migration Master Plan Air Force Stock Control and Distribution System DOD Materiel Management Standard System DOD Depot Maintenance Resource Planning System DOD Depot Maintenance Standard System CIM Public Law 103-62 Public Law 103-160 Public Law 104-13 Public Law 104-106