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5 Assessment of Progress
Pages 47-50

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From page 47...
... The LSMP is to maintain the s~me'direction and objectives that were approved by the Major Automated Information System Review Council (MAISRC) , but it will achieve those goals through multiple acquisitions to be made under an integrated umbrella program with appropriate oversight reviews.
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From page 48...
... We can also understand why the use of a single integration contractor might be perceived as a "grand design" even though each project would be implemented individually in keeping with a total design concept. However, we do not understand why the LSMP was funded by the DLA in the Department of Defense's five year plan for only the resources to support the program office planning function.
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From page 49...
... We believe that modernization is a long-term and continuing process, and that the agency would do well to view it as such and have the LSMP program office serve as a super program manager for agency-wide modernization projects and their individual managers. The OTIS should now have accepted accountability for agency-wide modernization and should pursue this task through the LSMP program office.
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From page 50...
... However, during this period, several units such as the Defense Logistics Services Center and the DLA Automatic Addressing Systems Office have made progress in moving ahead with upgraded, newly designed systems to modernize existing functions. The new director of the agency has modernization goals.
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