| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the CIO and OUSD (A&S) to work with department components, to conduct skills gap analyses that maps current IT workforce resources to future skill and position requirements needed for an enterprise-wide cloud environment. (Recommendation 1) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> In comments on our report, the Department of Defense (DOD) concurred with our recommendation and stated that it intended to complete a zero-based review of cyber and IT personnel and submit the results to Congress in June 2022. The department also noted that the process was designed to be repeatable at the service level for continued implementation and assessment of additional workforce categories in the future. We will follow up with DOD to ascertain whether a skills gap analysis has been performed in fiscal year 2022. |
| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the CIO to ensure that the department’s components and OUSD (A&S) conduct regular evaluations of customer experience and user needs to ensure that the solutions for the enterprise-wide cloud environment foster efficiency, accessibility, and privacy. (Recommendation 2) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> In comments on our report, the Department of Defense (DOD) reported that it would include responsibilities for ongoing evaluation of customer experience in future guidance by September 2024. We will continue to monitor DOD’s progress in implementing this recommendation. |
| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the CIO and department components to develop and execute a communication plan that will help employees understand the planned changes that will occur for the implementation of the department’s enterprise-wide cloud environment. (Recommendation 3) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> In comments on our report, the Department of Defense (DOD) reported that it would include requirements in future guidance by September 2024 for communication planning to increase awareness of capabilities available to department users for the enterprise-wide cloud environment. We will continue to monitor DOD’s progress in implementing this recommendation. |
| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the CIO to establish an enterprise-wide rationalization governance structure, identify and document all rationalization requirements in department policy, and determine the relevant information required on each application for rationalization and the means to collect it. (Recommendation 4) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> In comments on our report, the Department of Defense (DOD) reported that it would make improvements to its current department portfolio management processes by September 2024 to include governance, requirements, and roles and responsibilities to enable enterprise-wide rationalization. We will continue to monitor DOD’s progress in implementing this recommendation. |
| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the CIO to establish measurable objectives, milestones, and time frames for the development and implementation of the department’s enterprise-wide application rationalization process. (Recommendation 5) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> In comments on our report, the Department of Defense (DOD) reported that it would include measurable objectives, milestones, and time frames for implementation of the department’s enterprise-wide rationalization priorities in future guidance by September 2024. We will continue to monitor DOD’s progress in implementing this recommendation. |
| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the CIO to ensure that all department components are held accountable for meeting the objectives, milestones, and time frames included in for the department’s enterprise-wide application rationalization process. (Recommendation 6) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> In comments on our report, the Department of Defense (DOD) reported that it would include defined responsibilities in future guidance by September 2024 to ensure that application rationalization objectives, milestones, and timeframes would be met. We will continue to monitor DOD’s progress in implementing this recommendation. |
| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the CIO to update department-wide guidance to components regarding TBM implementation to include more specific information: how components should allocate spending for cloud services to specific cost pools and towers; identify what control process should be in place to ensure the TBM data is reliable; and provide clarification on the use of minimum reported spending of at least $1,000 for IT investments. (Recommendation 7) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> The Department of Defense (DOD) has not yet taken any actions to implement our recommendation. We will continue to monitor DOD’s progress in implementing this recommendation. |
| Department of the Air Force | The Secretary of the Air Force should direct the Air Force CIO to designate a unit within the component with responsibility for TBM implementation, provide additional guidance on TBM allocation of spending for cloud services to specific cost pools and towers, and to develop a process for assessing and improving the quality of TBM data. (Recommendation 8) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> The Air Force has not yet taken any actions to implement our recommendation. We will continue to monitor the Air Force’s progress in implementing this recommendation. |
| Department of the Army | The Secretary of the Army should direct the Army CIO to provide additional guidance on TBM allocation of spending for cloud services to specific cost pools and towers, and to develop a process for assessing and improving the quality of TBM data. (Recommendation 9) | Open <label class=”status-code-label”>Open</label><p class=”status-code-description”><p> Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.</p></p> In comments on this report, the Department of Defense (DOD) stated that it concurred that a definitive assessment process should be codified into Army policy (in accordance with the portion of our recommendation to develop a process for assessing and improving the quality of TBM data). In addition, DOD stated that the Army would initiate an Army-wide review of how IT requirements were documented as part of its planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process. We will continue to monitor Army’s progress in implementing this recommendation. |
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