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 1998-08-31 monographic deposited born digital 63 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-98-168 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-168 P0b002ee18037b8fe f:ai98168 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-168 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-168 AIMD-98-168 Private sector practices Information technology Accountability Information resources management Systems conversions Agricultural programs Information systems Reengineering (management) Strategic information systems planning ADP procurement Life cycle costs USDA Info Share Program USDA Service Center Implementation Initiative Y2K Letter Report AIMD The effort to modernize information technology at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) field service centers, as currently planned, will be the largest, most costly, and complex in the agency's history. The goal of this initiative is to provide "one-stop" service to customers of USDA's farm service, natural resources, and rural development agencies by collocating field offices and modernizing the business processes and information technology used in these offices. USDA projects that it could ultimately spend more than $3 billion on these efforts by the year 2011. This report describes USDA's ongoing efforts to modernize information technology for its service centers and identifies the significant risks in these plans. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-168/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-168.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-168/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-168.pdf GAO/AIMD-98-168 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-168 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-98-168; USDA Service Centers: Multibillion Dollar Effort to; Private sector practices Information technology Accountability Information resources management Systems conversions Agricultural programs Information systems Reengineering (management) Strategic information systems planning ADP procurement Life cycle costs USDA Info Share Program USDA Service Center Implementation Initiative Y2K