Army has major problems moving to digital management technology, DOD IG reports

Published February 10, 2013 5:00am ET



Officials with the U.S. Army’s Office of Business Transformation failed to develop a comprehensive implementation stratgy for key management systems, with a result that “Army management may not have the timely, accurate, and complete information it needs for decisionmaking,” according to an audit by the Department of Defense Inspector-General.

The OBT is the organization tasked with managing the Army’s transtormation of its management systems to digital technologies, which is done via four core Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) programs being developed to oversee financial, logistical, compensation and maintenance functions. The ERPs were first mandated during the Clinton administration, according to the DOD IG.

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