Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA's Financial Management Modernization;Report to the Congress

摘要

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is in the process of modernizing its financial management operations and supporting information technology systems. This modernization, known as the Integrated Financial Management Program (IFMP), is intended to provide NASA with an agency-wide, integrated approach to performing critical business functions, such as contract management-an area that GAO first designated as high risk in 1990 and continues to do so today. GAO was requested to review various aspects of IFMP, and this report is one in a series on the program. The objective of this review was to determine whether NASA has been acquiring and implementing IFMP in the context of an enterprise architecture GAO is making recommendations to the NASA Administrator for establishing an effective enterprise architecture management capability, ensuring the completeness of future releases of NASA's enterprise architecture, and minimizing its exposure to risk on IFMP caused by system component acquisition and implementation efforts that have proceeded to date in the absence of an enterprise architecture. NASA concurred with GAO's recommendations and described completed, ongoing, and planned actions to address them.