US Department of Defense urged to address serious IT systems flaws

• The US Government Accountability Office has published recommendations for the Department of Defense
• These are aimed at IT systems and include cybersecurity shortfalls
• Some programs overspent and took months longer than scheduled

The US Government's Department of Defense is set to spend $10.9 billion on maintaining IT business programs from 2023-2025 - but not all of these programs meet required performance levels, a new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has declared.

Recommendations from the department include asking the Secretary of Defense to direct the Chief Information Officer to “ensure that IT business programs identify and report results data on the minimum number of performance metrics in each category, as appropriate, as part of the department's submission to the Federal IT Dashboard.”

These programs are critical defense systems, and 4 were identified without “developed plans to implement a more rigorous cybersecurity approach ...