Computer Systems

Navy Needs to Assess Less Costly Ways to Implement Its Stock Point System Gao ID: IMTEC-89-2 December 14, 1988

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the Navy's Stock Point ADP Replacement Project (SPAR), focusing on whether the Navy had: (1) studied less costly alternatives to its SPAR implementation plan; and (2) identified for elimination other Navy supply systems that might duplicate SPAR.

GAO found that the Navy: (1) developed SPAR to improve and modernize stock point operations by replacing the existing automated system with new hardware and software at 38 host and 65 satellite stock points; (2) estimated SPAR life-cycle costs at about $2.3 billion; (3) planned to request approval from the Department of Defense's (DOD) oversight authority, the Major Automated Information System Review Council (MAISRC), before it completed studies of alternative SPAR configurations involving fewer hosts and more satellites; (4) lacked criteria for designating stock points as host sites, but replicated the number of host systems currently planned; (5) planned to eliminate two supply systems when it implemented SPAR; and (6) has not complied with a previous recommendation that it and DOD establish a system design completion review. GAO believes that the Navy could reduce SPAR implementation and operational costs by increasing the number of satellite sites and decreasing the number of host sites.

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