Bureau of Land Management


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Bureau of Land Management: Plan Needed to Sustain Progress in Establishing IT Investment Management Capabilities







Bureau of Land Management


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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.










Information Technology Management


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Business Systems Modernization


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Information Technology


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The fed. gov¿t. will spend $71 billion for info. technol. (IT) projects for FY 2009. These projects must be planned and managed effectively. This includes ensuring that they receive selection and oversight reviews. Selection involves identifying and analyzing projects' risks and returns and selecting those that will best support the agency's needs; oversight includes reviewing the progress of projects against expectations and taking corrective action when these expectations are not being met. This report determines whether: (1) fed. agencies have guidance on the role of their department-level investment review boards in selecting and overseeing IT projects; and (2) these boards are performing reviews of poorly planned and poorly performing projects. Illus.




DoD Business Systems Modernization


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Since 1995, the DoD¿s business systems modernization program has been designated as high risk, and it continues to do so today. To assist in addressing DoD's business system modernization challenges, the Nat. Defense Authorization Act for FY 2005 contains provisions that require the DoD to take certain actions and to annually report to its congressional committees on these actions. This is an annual review of DoD's actions to comply with key aspects in the Act and related fed. guidance. To do so, the auditor reviewed, for ex., the latest version of DoD's business enterprise architecture and transition plan, investment mgmt. policies and procedures, and information in the dep¿t. business system data repositories. Includes recommendations. Illus.