- The US Government’s Responsibility Office has published recommendations to the Ministry of Defense
- These are aimed at IT systems and include cyber security deficits
- Some programs exceeded and took months longer than planned
The US Government Ministry of Defense will need $ 10.9 billion to maintain IT business programs from 2023-2025 -but not all of these programs meet the required performance levels, has a new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) declared.
Recommendations from the department include asking the Defense Secretary to order Chief Information Officer to “ensure that IT business programs identify and report result data on the smallest number of performance metrics in each category as relevant, as part of the department’s submission to the federal IT dashboard.”
These programs are critical defense systems and 4 were identified without “developed plans to implement a more strict cyber security method – Zero Trust Architecture – at the deadline for 2027”. Another 2 programs did not have strategies in place to reduce cyber security threats.
Recommendations in the future
Of the 24 IT business programs reported 14 costs and/or schedule changes since January 2023, which include 12 programs reporting an increase in costs. These are between $ 6.1 million and $ 815.5 million (and a median of $ 173.5 million) – and 7 of the programs report a delay in the form from between 3 months and 48 months (median in 15 months).
Gao reminded DOD that it is “critical of success with DOD’s great business functions.” And that “not identifying and reporting performance data on performance metrics in each category makes it more difficult to determine if these programs reach their intended goals,” the report’s summary confirms.
This does not come long after the news that the US government paid tribute to it, cutting as an important part of billions of dollars, with contracts that were terminated, primarily for “advice and other non-essential services”.
The affected companies included Deloitte, Booz Allen and Accenture, with terminations specifically aimed at “$ 1.8 billion in consulting contracts, which the Defense Health Agency awarded various companies in the private sector, a $ 1.4 billion Enterprise Cloud IT Services -The contract for business process counseling. “
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