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GAO-04-190R 1 (2003-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamix0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 November 14, 2003 The Honorable Porter J. Goss Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence House of Representatives The Honorable Nancy Pelosi House of Representatives The Honorable Bob Graham United States Senate The Honorable Richard C. Shelby United States Senate Subject: Federal Bureau of Investigation's Comments on Recent GAO Report on its Enterprise Architecture Efforts On September 25, 2003, we issued our report on efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to develop a corporate blueprint-commonly called an enterprise architecture-to guide and constrain its information technology (IT) systems modernization.' (This report is available on GAO's Web site at www.gao.gov/cgi-biigetrpt?GAO-03-959.) We provided the FBI with a draft of this report on August 22, 2003, requesting that comments be provided by September 18. On September 23, the FBI provided us with written comments. However, the comments were not received in time to be analyzed, incorporated, and responded to in the report and still meet our September 25, 2003, reporting commitment to you. As discussed with your offices at that time, we did not extend the reporting date in order to include the FBI's comments and instead are transmitting and responding to them in this follow-up correspondence. In its written comments signed by the Assistant Director, Inspection Division (which are reprinted in their entirety in the enclosure), the FBI made two primary points. First, it expressed its commitment to developing and using an enterprise architecture (EA), including (1) agreeing with our conclusion that it needs an architecture to effectively manage its IT systems modernization; (2) consistent with our recommendations, stating that it recognized the need for immediate attention to its architecture efforts; and (3) noting that it was managing its architecture effort as an IT modernization enabler and priority. 'U.S. General Accounting Office, Information Technology: FBI Needs an Enterprise Architecture to Guide Its Modernization Activities, GAO-03-959 (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 25, 2003). GAO-04-190R FBI Enterprise Architecture

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