Improving Army Information Technology Asset Visibility

Visibility of locally procured information technology (IT) assets must be centralized at the enterprise level. Only after Army leaders have precise enterprise visibility of the products and services that were locally procured can they accurately determine the total cost of ownership for each IT asset. The total cost of ownership includes the life cycle costs of items such as computer hardware, software, and licenses as well as expenditures on contractor support personnel. With accurate and complete enterprise visibility of locally procured products and services and an accounting of the total cost of ownership of these assets, the Army can then, and only then, implement effective policy changes that measurably reduce IT overcapacity, redundancies, and wastefulness. Of the numerous automated systems used in the IT life cycle process, Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) may provide a centralized, mineable database for the timely and precise tracking, accountability, and reporting of the IT products and services that were procured throughout the Army enterprise.
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