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Information Management: Improvements Needed in NOAA's Long-Range ADP Plans

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Aug. 29, 1980
Report No. CED-80-136
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Summary:

A review of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) management of its automatic data processing (ADP) resources focused on the adequacy of the NOAA efforts to plan for and meet its current and future ADP needs and to ensure the efficient use of such resources.

NOAA has certain organizational weaknesses that have hindered past efforts to plan for ADP resources and may continue to limit its ability to plan effectively for its future ADP needs. It has not defined the central planning office's authority to prepare agency-wide plans, which establish priorities and objectives and consolidate the ADP needs of various programs. Some of the agency's main program elements, such as the National Weather Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Environmental Research Laboratories, have not adequately planned to meet their own long-range ADP requirements. Improvements are needed in integrating separate ADP project plans and in defining and consolidating program requirements.

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