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- The US Government Accountability Office has published recommendations for the Ministry of Defense
- These are aimed at IT systems and include cyber security shortages
- Some programs are too tense and lasted months longer than planned
The Ministry of Defense of the US government will spend $ 10.9 billion on maintaining IT business programs of 2023-2025 -but not all these programs meet the required performance levels, a new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) stated.
Recommendations from the Department include the Minister of Defense Minister to set up the Chief Information Officer to “ensure that IT company programs identify and report results on the minimum number of performance tricks in each category, if applicable, as part of the submission of the department to the Federal Dashboard.”
These programs were critical defense systems and 4 were identified without “plans developed to implement a rigorous cyber security approach – Zero Trust Architecture – by the Deadline of 2027”. Another 2 programs had no strategies to reduce cyber security threats.
Recommendations in the future
Of the 24 IT business programs, 14 reported cost and/or planning changes have since January 2023, including 12 programs that report 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 schedule of between 3 months and 48 months (median of 15 months).
De Gao reminded the Dod that it is “crucial for the success of Dod’s major business functions.” And that “data on the results of the performance statistics in each category do not identify and report, it makes it more difficult to determine whether these programs are achieving their intended goals,” the report summary confirms.
This is not long after the news that the The US government greets it as an important part of DOD savings of billion dollarsterminated with contracts, mainly for “consulting and other non-essential services”.
Affected companies were Deloitte, Booz Allen and Accenture, with terminations specifically aimed at “$ 1.8 billion in advisory contracts, the Defense Health Agency that was assigned to various companies in the private sector, a $ 1.4 billion enterprise contract for a software and one $ 500 million -wed ups that is a software -for a software -wedernting and a $ 500 -wed up -wed up -wed set -wed set that has been a software. business process advice. “
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