House committee investigating STANFINS fiasco

House committee investigating STANFINS fiasco

[Gregory Aharonian]

>From the February 15, 1993 issue of Government Computer News, page 3

    The Pentagon's choice of standard financial systems has sparked a
    House probe and triggered a request that the Defense Department
    spend no more on these systems.
    Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee
    on Defense, has asked the full committee's investigations staff to
    determine the validity of DoD's choice of the standard systems.
    "It has come to my attention that a number of recent decisions have
    been made by acting personnel before your confirmation that deeply
    concern this committee and may be an inordinate waste of taxpayer's
    money", Murtha wrote last month to Defense Secretary Les Aspin.
    [.....]
    Industry sources and senior Army officials agreed that the termination
    of one of the Pentagon's most successful Ada programs sparked the
    Murtha investigation.  Last fall, the Pentagon scrapped STANFINS for
    a big COBOL program.

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    The address for the subcommittee is:
	House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense
	Capitol Building,  Room  H-144
	Washington, DC  20515-6018
	212-225-2847


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