Certification of the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System

摘要

The Clinger-Cohen Act mandated changes to the way DoD selects and manages information technology resources and emphasized that information technology was an enabler of business process reengineering. The Chief Information Officer, DoD, oversees all DoD information technology investments. To help ensure effective oversight of DoD information technology investments, Congress included Section 8121(b) in the FY 2000 DoD Appropriations Act. This act required the Chief Information Officer, DoD, to certify, prior to Milestone I, II, or III approval, that major automated information systems were being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act. Section 8121(b) also required the Chief Information Officer, DoD, to inform Congress of the certifications and to provide confirmation that DoD Components took certain steps with respect to the system certification, to include business process reengineering, analysis of alternatives, economic analysis, performance measures, and an information assurance strategy. This audit was the first in a series of planned audits of information systems that were certified by DoD as being compliant with the Clinger-Cohen Act. DoD authorized the development of the modern Defense Civilian Personnel Data System in December 1994 to support the regionalization of civilian personnel operations, which included workforce reduction. DoD planned to concurrently field the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System modernization and complete regionalization by December 1998. DoD completed regionalization by June 1999, but, as of May 2001, full-scale deployment of Defense Civilian Personnel Data System had occurred at only 5 of the 26 proposed sites. Of the remaining 21 sites, program officials expanded testing at 6 of the sites and planned to complete deployment for 15 sites by September 2001, almost two years after the completion of reengineering certified that the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System was being developed in accordance.