- The United States Government Responsibility Office has published recommendations for the Department of Defense.
- These are aimed at IT systems and include cybersecurity deficit
- Some programs spend too much and took more months than scheduled
The United States Government Department of Government will spend $ 10.9 billion in the maintenance of commercial IT programs of 2023-2025, but not all of these programs comply with the required performance levels, has declared a new report from the United States Government Responsibility Office (GAO).
Department’s recommendations include asking the Secretary of Defense to order the Information Director to “ensure that IT commercial programs identify and report results data on the minimum number of performance metrics in each category, as appropriate, as part of the presentation of the department to the Federal Ti board.”
These programs are critical defense systems, and 4 were identified without “plans developed to implement a more rigorous cybersecurity approach (zero trusted architecture) on the deadline of 2027”. Other 2 programs had no strategies to reduce cybersecurity threats.
Recommendations in the future
Of the 24 commercial programs, 14 reported cost and/or schedule changes since January 2023, which includes 12 programs that report an increase in cost. 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 between 3 months and 48 months (median of 15 months).
The Gao reminded DOD that it is “critical for the success of the main commercial functions of the Department of Defense.” And that “not identifying and informing the results data on the performance metrics in each category makes it more difficult to determine if these programs are achieving their planned objectives,” confirms the summary of the report.
This happens not long after the news that the United States government acclaimed it as a key part of DOD savings of one billion dollars, with terminated contracts, mainly for “consulting 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 that the Defense Health Agency granted several private sector companies, a Ti Services Contract of the Business Cloud of $ 1.4 billion granted to a software reseller and a contract of $ 500 million in the contract of the Armed commercials “.
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