Data Communications: Delays Hampering Installation of IRS' (Internal Revenue Service's) Communications Replacement System

摘要

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is in the process of replacing its existing data communications processing system and obsolete computer terminals with the new $150 million Communications Replacement System. During the February 6, 1987, hearing on the IRS, you requested that the authors assist the Subcommittee in its oversight and evaluation of IRS' effort to install the new system nationwide. The General Accounting Office is monitoring the installation and testing of the new system at IRS' National Computer Center located in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and the Fresno, California, and Austin, Texas, service centers. The report discusses IRS' progress in installing and testing the new system since February 1987. GAO will continue to monitor and report on IRS' progress in installing and testing the new system.