United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2003-07-07 monographic deposited born digital 21 p. GA 1.13:GAO-03-877R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-877R P0b002ee180377486 f:d03877r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-877R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-877R GAO-03-877R Financial management systems Information technology Internal controls Strategic planning Correspondence A07475

The Department of Defense (DOD) faces financial and related management problems that are pervasive, complex, long-standing, and deeply rooted in virtually all business operations throughout the department. These problems have impeded the department's ability to provide complete, reliable, and timely business information to the Congress, DOD managers, and other decision makers. Of the 25 areas on our governmentwide "high-risk" list, 6 are DOD program areas, and the department shares responsibility for 3 other high-risk areas that are governmentwide in scope. DOD's problems in each of these areas hinder the efficiency of operations, and leave the department vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse. For fiscal year 2003, DOD's information technology (IT) budget request was over $26 billion. More specifically, to support its business operations, DOD reports that it currently relies on about 2,300 systems, including accounting, acquisition, logistics, and personnel systems that will cost about $18 billion--nearly $5.2 billion for business systems and $12.8 billion primarily for business systems infrastructure--in fiscal year 2003 to operate, maintain, and modernize. As we have previously reported, this environment was not designed to be, but rather has evolved into, an overly complex and error-prone environment, including (1) little standardization across DOD, (2) multiple systems performing the same tasks, (3) the same data stored in multiple systems, and (4) manual data entry into multiple systems. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-877R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-877R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-877R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-877R.pdf GAO-03-877R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-877R Correspondence GAO-03-877R; Business Systems Modernization: Summary of GAO's Assessment of the Department of Defense's Initial Business Enterprise Architecture; Financial management systems Information technology Internal controls Strategic planning Title 10 Section 2222 10 U.S.C. 2222 Volume 116 Page 2458 116 Stat. 2458 Public Law 107-314