Summary

In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) efforts in the area of computer acquisition planning and requirements analysis and validation, specifically with regard to ongoing general purpose equipment procurement and proposed acquisition of scientific processing support and minicomputers.

Overall, GAO found that TVA had made substantial progress toward achieving improved management of its automatic data processing resources; however, some problems still remained. TVA still needs to complete its cost accounting and reporting system and application inventory system and to provide for a direct relationship between corporate business planning activities.