GAO-05-858 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Navy ERP Adherence to Best Business Practices Critical to Avoid Past Failures

Investigates the impact of information technology, biogenetic, and pharmacological innovation on individuals quality of life, safety, individual and system health care utilization, occupational and environmental health and formulary decision making, and costs.

For decades, the DoD has been challenged in modernizing its thousands of business systems. Since 1995, this effort has been designated as high risk. One key to effectively modernizing DoD¿s systems environment and satisfying relevant legislative requirements is ensuring that business system investments comply with an enterprisewide strategic blueprint, commonly called an enterprise architecture. For DoD¿s business systems modernization, it is developing and using a federated Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA), which is a coherent family of parent and subsidiary architectures. This report determines whether key Dept. of the Navy business systems modernization programs comply with DoD¿s federated BEA. Charts and tables.