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HRD-81-148 1 (1981-09-18)

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                   UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                          WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


HUMAN RESOURCES
   DIVISION
     B-204572


SEPTEMBER 18, 1981


The Honorable Charles H. Percy
  and Alan J. Dixon
United States Senate

The Honorable Henry J. Hyde,
  Sidney R. Yates, Edward J. Derwinski,
  Philip M. Crane, John N. Erlenborn,
  Dan Rostenkowski, and George M. O'Brien
House of Representatives


     Subject: The Veterans Administration's Efforts to Consolidate
               Computer Programming Resources at a Single Location
               (HRD-81-148)

     This report is in response to your March 19, 1981, letter
requesting that we review the Veterans Administration's (VA's)
efforts to establish an Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Centralized
Development Center (CDC) in Austin, Texas.

     In July 1980 we reported I/ that  a needed to improve the man-
agement of its ADP resources and recommended that a separate staff
of ADP analysts and programmers be established to work on system
development projects and assign skeleton crews for system mainten-
ance. In January 1981, after studying the feasibility of central-
izing development resources at a single location, VA initiated the
implementation of the CDC at Austin.

     The CDC was to centralize most computer program development
and maintenance resources previously assigned to VA's five data
processing centers (DPCs) . This would involve transferring de-
velopment and maintenance work and associated staff from the DPCs
and VA's central office to the CDC. VA estimated, in August 1980,
that VA benefits would exceed costs by $2.5 million over 5 years
of operation. These savings were based on eliminating DPC per-
sonnel positions expected to accrue from implementing the CDC.


l/VA Must Strengthen Management of ADP Resources to Serve Veterans'

  Needs (FGMSD-80-60, July 16, 1980).

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