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GAO-23-106817 1 (2023-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaopdo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Big Picture Figure: Status of Related GAO Recommendations as of August 2023 For over 30 years, the Department of Defense (DOD) has spent billions of dollars each year to acquire and modernize financial management, logistics, and other business systems. DOD's Fiscal Year 2023 IT and cyberspace budget includes $9.1 billion for business system investments. The goal of these efforts is to, among other things, improve management of DOD's business processes, increase efficiency, modernize its supporting systems environment, and achieve a clean audit opinion (i.e. an independent auditor determines that financial statements were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles). A clean audit opinion could help DOD to, among other things, improve its accountability over its extensive resources. For example, DOD reported that the Navy identified more than $4.4 billion in previously untracked material through inventory cleanup and redeployment programs dating back to 2018. DOD's financial management and business systems modernization efforts have been on GAO's list of high risk programs since 1995. In May 2023, the department's Inspector General reported that IT remains a material weakness that prevents DOD from achieving a clean audit opinion In this snapshot, we discuss three reports related to DOD's modernization efforts. As of August 2023, DOD had not yet fully implemented 18 of the 19 recommendations made in these reports (see figure), including two that we consider high priority. Our priority recommendations warrant attention from heads of key department and agencies. 5% - Implemented 4 -21% - Open-part addressed 14 Source: GAO analysis of Department of Defense documentation. GAO-23-106817 ially What GAO's Work Shows DOD's Plans for Business and Financial Management Systems In September 2020, we reported that DOD had a financial management systems strategy that did not fully address requirements for a comprehensive and effective IT strategic plan. In particular, DOD did not include well-defined measures for tracking progress in achieving the strategy's goals. In addition, we reported that it had not developed an enterprise road map to implement its strategy. > We made 6 ro endations for DOD to, among other things, establish and clearly define performance measures and develop a road map to implement its financial management systems strategy. GAO-23-106817 Financial Management

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