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HRD-82-83 1 (1982-05-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabdks0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RELEASED RESTRCTED - Ot 40 ::ead outside the General Accounting (' fice except on the basis of specific approval ____ by the Office of Congressional Relations 0 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-201668 May 28, 1982 The Honorable Lawton Chiles United States Senate Dear Senator Chiles: Subject: Examination of the Social Security Administration's Systems Modernization Plan (GAO/HRD-82-83) In response to your March 9, 1982, request (see enc. I), we conducted a limited review of the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) Systems Modernization Plan (SMP). Our work addresses your ,questions concerning SMP's scope, level of detail, and completion milestones, and the associated resource provisions in the President's 1983 budget request. Enclosures II, III, and IV of this report answer your specific questions and also respond to related concerns later raised by your office. Enclosure V discusses how the plan was developed and de- scribes its key features. In conjunction with answering your ques- !itions, we are also making some general observations on SMP's strengths and potential obstacles to its successful implementation. ISMP GIVES SSA A LOGICAL APPROACH FOR SOLVING CURRENT ADP PROBLEMS SMP seems to present a logical, systematic approach for solving SSA's pressing software, hardware, data management, data communica- tions, and general automatic data processing (ADP) management prob- lems. In this regard: --SMP provides a vehicle for institutionalizing generally accepted systems development and modification standards. For example, it calls for establishing standards for pro- gram and systems documentation and data element definitions. It further calls for developing and using standardized pro- gram and system validation and testing methodologies. (116791) 118794

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