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Defense IRM: Investments at Risk for DOD Computer Centers

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 4, 1997
Report No. AIMD-97-39
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Summary:

Although the Defense Department (DOD) is striving to cut costs at its computer centers, millions of dollars may be wasted because DOD has yet to develop an effective framework for deciding how to consolidate, modernize, and contract out computer center operations. DOD and the military services have consolidated several computer centers in recent years and contracted with the private sector for information processing services that had been done in-house. DOD recognizes that opportunities exist for further consolidations because, according to DOD reports, about 40 percent of its computer centers still fall well below governmentwide minimum processing capacity targets. Unless DOD better manages its computer center strategies, at best it will achieve optimization only at the component level and forgo optimization for the department as a whole.

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