| Next Generation Enterprise Network: Navy Implementing Revised Approach, but Improvement Needed in Mitigating Risks |
Sep 2012 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; Eric Winter; Nabajyoti Barkakati; Harold Brumm; Neil Doherty; Nancy Glover; Madhav Panwar; Jeanne Sung; Niti Tandon; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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 | The Department of the Navy (DON), a component of the Department of Defense (Defense), is replacing its existing network system with the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN). Capabilities for the new system include secure transport of voice and data, data storage, and e-mail, at a cost of about $38 billion through fiscal year 2024. In March 2011, GAO reported that the approach for acquiring NGEN was not grounded in a ... |
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| DOD Business Systems Modernization: Governance Mechanisms for Implementing Management Controls Need to Be Improved |
Jun 2012 |
56 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; Neelaxi Lakhmani; Mark Bird; Debra Conner; Rebecca Eyler; Michael Holland; Anh Le; Donald Sebers; Jennifer Stavros-Turner; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| DOD is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world, and is entrusted with more taxpayer dollars than any other federal department or agency. For fiscal year 2013, the department requested approximately $613.9 billion $525.4 billion in spending authority for its base operations and an additional $88.5 billion to support overseas contingency operations, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan. In support of its military operations, DOD ... |
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| Department of Defense: Further Actions Needed to Institutionalize Key Business System Modernization Management Controls |
Jun 2011 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; Gerard Aflague; Mathew Bader; Carl Barden; Shaun Byrnes; Debra Conner; Elena Epps; Rebecca Eyler; Nancy Glover; Neelaxi Lakhmani; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| For decades, the Department of Defense (DoD) has been challenged in modernizing its timeworn business systems. Since 1995, GAO has designated DoD's business systems modernization program as high risk. Between 2001 and 2005, GAO reported that the modernization program had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an enterprise architecture and investment management structures that had limited value. Accordingly, GAO made explicit architecture and investment management-related recommendations. Congress included provisions ... |
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| Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Should Remove Barriers and Improve Efforts to Meet Their Common System Needs |
Feb 2011 |
79 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; Mark T Bird; Bradley Becker; Jeremy Brodsky; Heather A Collins; Rebecca Eyler; Jacqueline Mai; Lee McCracken; Sylvia Shanks; Adam Vodraska; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operate two of the nation's largest health care systems. To do so, both departments rely on electronic health record systems to create, maintain, and manage patient health information. DOD and VA are currently undertaking initiatives to modernize their respective systems, jointly establish the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), and develop joint information technology (IT) capabilities for the James ... |
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| Electronic Health Records: Program Office Improvements Needed to Strengthen Management of VA and DOD Efforts to Achieve Full Interoperability |
14-Jul-2009 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; Mark Bird; Rebecca Eyler; Michael Redfern; J M Resser; Kelly Shaw; Eric Trout; Merry Woo; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| For over a decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) have been working on initiatives to share electronic health information. To expedite their efforts, Congress mandated in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 that VA and DoD establish a joint interagency program office to act as a single point of accountability in the development of electronic health records systems or capabilities ... |
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| Recovering Servicemembers. DOD and VA Have Made Progress to Jointly Develop Required Policies but Additional Challenges Remain |
29-Apr-2009 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Randall B Williamson; Daniel Bertoni; Valerie C Melvin; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (NDAA 2008) requires the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly develop and implement comprehensive policies on the care, management, and transition of recovering servicemembers. The Senior Oversight Committee (SOC)-jointly chaired by DOD and VA leadership-has assumed responsibility for these policies. The NDAA 2008 also requires GAO to report on the progress DOD and VA make in developing ... |
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| Information Technology. Challenges Remain for VA's Sharing of Electronic Health Records with DOD |
12-Mar-2009 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| For over a decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have been engaged in efforts to improve their ability to share electronic health information. These efforts are vital for making patient information readily available to health care providers in both departments, reducing medical errors, and streamlining administrative functions. In addition, Congress has mandated that VA and DOD jointly develop and implement, by September 30, ... |
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| Information Technology: DOD and VA Have Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but Further Actions Are Needed |
24-Sep-2008 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 required the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to accelerate the exchange of health information between the departments and to develop systems or capabilities that allow for full interoperability (generally, the ability of systems to use data that are exchanged) and that are compliant with federal standards. The act also established an interagency program office to ... |
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| Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Have Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but More Work Remains |
Jul 2008 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; Barbara S Oliver; Barbara Collier; Kelly Shaw; Williams; Robert Jr; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are required to accelerate the exchange of health information between the departments and to develop systems or capabilities that allow for full interoperability (generally, the ability of systems to use data that are exchanged) and that are compliant with federal standards. The act also established a joint interagency ... |
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