6 IT Projects, $8 Billion Over Budget At Dept. of Defense

McGruber writes "The Federal Times has the stunning (but not surprising) news that a new audit found six Defense Department modernization projects to be a combined $8 billion — or 110 percent — over budget. The projects are also suffering from years-long schedule delays. In 1998, work began on the Army's Logistics Modernization Program (LMP). In April 2010, the General Accounting Office issued a report titled 'Actions Needed to Improve Implementation of the Army Logistics Modernization Program' about the status of LMP. LMP is now scheduled to be fully deployed in September 2016, 12 years later than originally scheduled, and 18 years after development first began! (Development of the oft-maligned Duke Nukem Forever only took 15 years.)"

Comments

110%

[chromas]

It's nice to see someone in our government giving 110%.

Re:All of that to develop some ERP systems

[vivian]

Call me a cynic, but I think everyone wised up to the fact that they weren't really buying solid gold toilet seats, so they had to find something else in the budget to fund all that black ops stuff...

Re:And this is different from other DOD projects h

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently the logistics of killing dirty little foreigners is quite complicated.

Re:All of that to develop some ERP systems

[mtempsch]

SAP is well-known . . . but I don`t think that many people really know what it actually does.

Sucks the money out of any organization trying to implement it?