Land Management Systems

Major Software Development Does Not Meet BLM's Business Needs Gao ID: AIMD-99-135 April 30, 1999

GAO recently testified that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had spent more than 15 years and $411 million to develop the Automated Land and Mineral Record System (ALMRS)/Modernization, only to have the major software component fail to meet its needs. (See GAO/T-AIMD-99-102, Mar. 1999.) GAO recommended steps that BLM should take to deal with this issue. This report transmits GAO's recommendations to help BLM strengthen its information technology management practices and reduce the risks that future information technology efforts will be similarly unsuccessful.

GAO noted that: (1) this report transmits GAO's recommendations to assist BLM in strengthening its information technology management practices and reducing the risks that future information technology efforts will result in a similar outcome; and (2) the report is being sent because of the significant investment BLM has made in the ALMRS Modernization and the department's stated intent to use ALMRS as its land management system.

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