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IMTEC-83-8 1 (1983-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabndr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 'ttD 3r, UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FORMATION MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY DIVISION September 27, 1983 B-207802 Mr. Dallas L. Peck Director, U.S. Geological Survey National Center Reston, Virginia 22092 122673 Dear Mr. Peck: Subject: Opportunities to Improve Geological Survey's Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Information Resources Management (GAO/IMTEC-83-8) We have reviewed the Geological Survey's ADP information resource management and conclude that it needs to be improved. ADP planning, currently performed in each operating division, would be more effective if performed agencywide. Top management needs to establish a long-range ADP strategy for such planning and to better manage software resources within the divisions. OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY Our objective was to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the Survey's information resources management as it relates to ADP planning and operations. We did our work at the Survey Headquarters in Reston and its regional office in Denver. We collected data on ADP planning, software development and manage- ment, data base management, and computer capacity planning. We interviewed senior officials responsible for establishing ADP management policy in the Geologic, National Mapping, Water Resources, Administrative, and Information Systems Divisions. We also interviewed the principal division managers directly responsible for managing ADP resources. We supplemented our interviews by analyzing contracts, records, reports, and other information related to the Survey's management of its ADP resources. We performed our work in accordance with generally accepted government audit standards. The officials we interviewed stated that it is the Survey's policy to encourage the extensive use of microcomputers to sup- port managerial and research functions. The Survey has already invested more than $3 million in several hundred micro- computers. While we did not examine management issues related to microcomputer use in the Survey, the potential problems of widespread use of such devices are discussed in our recent re- port to the Director, Office of Management and Budget, Small Computers in the Federal Government: Management is Needed to (061160)

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