Summary: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) compliance with the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) requirement that it report data on the costs associated with the acquisition, operation, and use of such information technology as computer and communications systems.
GAO found that: (1) FAA did not submit all required data on information technology expenditures supporting the air traffic control system, since it believed that it was not required to report on those resources; (2) FAA identified only $182 million in planned obligations for information technology systems for fiscal year (FY) 1991, although an internal report estimated FAA information technology investment at $3 billion annually; (3) FAA omission of information technology data resulted in a significant understatement of information technology activity and constituted a material internal control weakness under the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA) of 1982; and (4) FAA stated that it had begun to identify a process to gather complete data on air traffic control systems information technology resources and expenditures.
