Land Management Systems: Actions Needed in Completing the Automated Land and Mineral Record System Development
AIMD-98-107
Published: May 15, 1998. Publicly Released: May 15, 1998.
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Highlights
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided a follow-up assessment of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) actions to address the recommendations contained in its March 1997 report, focusing on the status of BLM's efforts to test, deploy, and implement the automated land and mineral records system's (ALMRS) initial operating capability.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Bureau of Land Management | To reduce the risk that BLM will lose information technology support for core business processes, the Director, BLM, should direct that the two mission-critical systems ALMRS is to replace be fully assessed to determine what actions are needed to ensure the continued use of these systems after January 1, 2000. |
Closed – Implemented
BLM implemented this recommendation. BLM identified and assessed the legacy systems and recently completed actions to make the legacy systems, which the ALMRS initial operating capability was to replace, year 2000 compliant and rehost them. These actions are critical to continuing information technology support for BLM's core business processes after 1999, because the ALMRS initial operating capability will not be deployed and BLM will have to rely on its year 2000 compliant legacy systems.
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| Bureau of Land Management | To reduce the risk that BLM will lose information technology support for core business processes, the Director, BLM, should develop a contingency plan to take those actions in the event that ALMRS is not fully deployed by that time. |
Closed – Implemented
As GAO recommended, BLM developed a contingency plan to take needed actions to ensure the continued use of legacy systems, that the ALMRS initial operating capability was to replace, in the event that ALMRS is not fully deployed by January 1, 2000. BLM executed thew contingency plan after an October 1998 operational assessment test and evaluation showed that the ALMRS initial operating capability was not deployable.
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