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B-163074 1 (1973-07-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaehv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICT - Not to be released osi4 the Oenera[l U ( LI-JA * ~Accountring Office except oni the basis of j~~ S mmmu - by the Office of Co gressional Relations, a r A,- ,tt 0is kept by the Distribution Section, Publicatibns ranch, OAS COMIPROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES ... ..... ..H...N 20548 RELEASED B-163074 JUL 18 1973 The Honorable George H. Mahon Chairman, Committee on Appropriations y House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: During the past 7 years the Army has spent about $75 million to de~3.o~pa~e~.o rmation sYstem-;-the Combat Service Sup- port System (CS3). CS3's basic objective is to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of combat service support by augt g such func- tions as supply, personnel, and maintenance at the division and corps level of the field Army and to provide the commanders with up-to-date information on these functions under field and garrison conditions. At your request we have monitored this system's development since late 1969. In prior reports to you concerning CS3, we suggested that it not be deployed outside the test site at Fort Hood, Texas, until it has been proven workable. At the time of our last report to you (B-163074, June 2, 1972), each division and each corps was to maintain separate coupazmap s to be interconnected by communication links to provide teleprocessing capabilities. The Army has since changed CS3's concept to using a computer complex at the corps level as a service center to provide, with- out teleprocessing capabilities, automated data processing (ADP) services for a corps with a maximum of three divisions. This change was intended to resolve issues your Committee identified and problems we previously reported. The new concept was also intended to be less costly than alternatives the Army evaluated and to be-pmore compatible with its fund- ing constraints for developing CS3. On March 1, 1973, we discussed with a member of your Committee staff our reservations about and the potential difficulties that might be experienced with the service center concept. We were primarily concerned with the computers' ability to process the workloads and with CS3's ability to interface efficiently with other systems and to recover from equipment failures or outages and to expand to meet known future work- loads. The Army was then preparing to demonstrate the service center concept at Fort Hood. We were asked to monitor that demonstration and to report to you on our observations and conclusions; this report responds to that request.

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