DoDs Efforts to Consolidate Data Centers Need Improvement

Our audit objective was to determine whether selected DoD Components were effectively consolidating their data centers in accordance with the Federal DataCenter Consolidation Initiative FDCCI. Specifically, we planned to verify the status of the consolidations and determine whether actual efficiencies gained met the estimated efficiencies reported to the Office of Management and Budget OMB. Because DoD acknowledged the significant challenges to realizing efficiencies, we focused on determining whether DoD effectively consolidated data centers in accordance with FDCCI and DoD requirements for data center consolidation