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The Federal Software Exchalige Program: A Small Step in Improving
Program Sharing, FGMSD-78-11; B-1I05369. January 13, 1978. 17 pp.
+ appendix (3 pp..,.
Report to Jay Solomon, -Iministrator, General Services
Administration; by D L. Scantlebury, Director, Financial and
General Management Studies Div.
Issue Area: Automatic uata PLuceszi.. (100).
Contact: Financial and Gpueral Manaqement Studies Div.
Btdget Function: General. Government: General Property and
Records Management (801); Miscellaneous: Autcmatic Data
Processing (1001).
Organization Concerned: national Technical Information Service.[
Authority: Brooks Act IP.L. 89-306). F.P.M.R. 101-32.16.
The General Services Administration (GSA) created the
Federal Software Exchange Progra2 to identify and collect
computer programs develope4 by Federal agencies that could be
used by other Federal age,.cies. The sharing of such computer
programs and relattd dccumentation among agencies with common
Deeds is intended to avoid the time, effort, and expense
involved in replicating software. Software, as defined by GSA,
means a aputer programs and routines used to ertend the
capabili f computers, inclading single programs,
independf z -utines, related groups of routines, and sets o
systems ox Findings/Conclusions: Agencies sub'it
abstracts o- c programs they believe useful to the
National Tech, formation Service xhich publishes abstract$
of the comput razs in a catalog. The first catalog of
software ab peblished in January 1977, contained 100
abstracts. T-e ,ber 1977 catalog contained 365 abstracts. No
programs had beoi. sold through October 1977. Generally, such
operations related to sharing technology have had limited
success. Recommendations: GSA should. stimulate more agencies
to submit abstracts of computer programs foi the cataiog, adopt
a policy to guarantee that the catalog will include abstracts
only cf programs thpt have been documented according to
prescribed standards, and provide more technical assistance to
purchasers so that they can overcome any problem,, in changing
the programs to work in their environment. (RFS)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaawjr0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)