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GAO-07-1139R 1 (2007-07-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauog0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i= i Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 25, 2007 Congressional Committees Subject: Military Personnel: The Navy Has Not Provided Adequate Justification For Its Decision to Invest in MCTFS In June 2006, the Navy completed a feasibility assessment of both the Marine Corps Total Force System (MCTFS)-the Marine Corps' integrated personnel and payroll system-and the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System DIMHRS. Based on the results of this assessment, the Navy expressed a preference to deploy MCTFS instead of DIMHRS. In August 2006, the Defense Business Systems Management Committee (DBSMC)' made a business decision to accept the Navy's plan to proceed with the development and implementation of MCTFS. However, the Department of Defense (DOD) had already committed to deploy DIMHRS to provide ajoint, integrated, standardized military personnel and pay system across all military components. According to the department, as of September 2006, it had spent over $668 million2 on the program. The John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, Pub. L. No. 109-364, §324 (2006) directed the Secretary of the Navy to prepare a report about MCTFS, including (1) an analysis of alternatives to MCTFS, including a comparison between the costs of deploying and operating MCTFS within the Navy and the cost of including the Navy in DIMHRS; (2) a business case analysis of the costs and benefits to both the Navy and DOD of the alternatives to MCTFS considered in the first objective; and (3) an analysis of the compatibility of MCTFS with the department's business enterprise architecture.3 The Navy concluded in its report-which we received on April 25, 2007-that (1) either MCTFS or DIMHRS could provide basic personnel and pay capability for the Navy uniformed force at approximately equivalent cost; (2) the DIMHRS alternative has substantially higher risks on cost, schedule, and function because MCTFS is already operational; and (3) MCTFS is fully compatible and compliant with the department's business enterprise architecture. 1The Deputy Secretary of Defense established the DBSMC, which oversees DOD's business transformation, and tasked it with responsibility for overall departmental transformation pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 186. 2The cost figure includes costs incurred by the Enterprise Program Management Office-DIMHRS, the Army, the Air Force, the U. S. Marine Corps, and the Defense Finance and Accounting Office; it does not include costs incurred by the Navy since program inception. 3An enterprise architecture provides a clear and comprehensive picture of an entity, whether it is an organization (e.g., a federal department) or a functional or mission area that cuts across more than one organization (e.g., human resources). It is an essential tool for effectively and efficiently engineering business processes and for implementing and evolving systems that support the business processes. GAO-07-1139R DOD System Modernization

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