Telecommunications Management: More Effort Needed by Interior and the ForestService to Achieve Savings

摘要

The report provides the results of a review of efforts by the Department of theInterior and the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Service to reduce costs by consolidating their telecommunications services. The objectives were to determine whether (1) Interior has consolidated and optimized telecommunications services to eliminate unnecessary services and maximize savings and (2) Interior and the Forest Service are sharing telecommunications services where they can.