DOD provided us with fiscal year 2008 expenditure data for one system and budget data for the other

In 1995, the Department of Defense (DOD) began an effort to implement a standard departmentwide travel system—the Defense Travel System (DTS). GAO has made numerous recommendations aimed at improving DOD management, oversight, and implementation of DTS.
To address these objectives, GAO (1) obtained and analyzed relevant travel policies and procedures, and documents related to the operation of DTS and (2) interviewed online travel agency sites axis marketing sales appropriate DOD and contractor personnel.
While the department has made progress in improving online travel agency sites axis marketing sales the efficiency of its travel operations by implementing DTS and revising its processes and policies, unresolved operational issues continue to exist. DOD has taken sufficient action to satisfactorily address 6 of the 14 recommendations GAO made in 2006 pertaining to unused airline tickets, restricted airfares, testing of system interfaces, and streamlining of certain travel processes. More effort is needed to address the remaining 8 related to requirements management and system online travel agency sites axis marketing sales testing, utilization, premium-class travel, and developing an automated approach to reduce the need for hard-copy receipts to substantiate online travel agency sites axis marketing sales travel expenses. For example, in the area of requirements management and testing, GAO's analysis found that the display of flight information by DTS is complicated and confusing. This problem online travel agency sites axis marketing sales continues online travel agency sites axis marketing sales because DOD has yet to establish DTS flight display requirements that minimize the number of screens DOD travelers must view in selecting a flight.
The 1995 DOD Travel online travel agency sites axis marketing sales Reengineering Report made 22 recommendations to streamline DOD's travel rules and processes. GAO found that DOD had satisfactorily addressed all 22 recommendations. For example, DOD has mandated the use of commercial online travel agency sites axis marketing sales travel offices (CTO), established a single entity within online travel agency sites axis marketing sales DOD—the Defense Travel Management Office—to contract with CTOs for travel services, and has begun modifying CTO contracts as they become subject to renewal to standardize the level of services provided.
According to DOD officials, except for locations where DTS has not yet been deployed, DTS is used by the military services and all 44 defense agencies and joint commands to process temporary duty (TDY) travel vouchers. The department uses two legacy systems to process:
DOD provided us with fiscal online travel agency sites axis marketing sales year 2008 expenditure data for one system and budget data for the other system. online travel agency sites axis marketing sales The expenditure/budget data provided by DOD were comparable to the amounts budgeted for these systems for fiscal year 2008. According to DOD officials, these legacy systems will not be eliminated because they provide the capability to process military and civilian permanent duty travel vouchers. Although DTS is expected to provide the capability to process military permanent duty travel vouchers in fiscal year 2010, DOD has not yet decided if civilian permanent duty travel voucher processing will be added to DTS.
DOD cost data indicate that it is about 15 times more expensive online travel agency sites axis marketing sales to process a travel voucher manually—$36.52 manually versus $2.47 electronically. DOD officials acknowledged that the department continues to lack the data needed to ascertain the complete universe of travel vouchers that should be processed through DTS.
Because GAO has existing recommendations regarding the actions needed to address the weaknesses discussed in this report, GAO reiterates 8 of its 14 prior recommendations. DOD commented that it has taken sufficient action to address 12 of the 14 recommendations, including online travel agency sites axis marketing sales 6 of the 8 GAO is reiterating, and described actions under way or planned to address the other 2. GAO disagrees. GAO received technical comments, which were incorporated as appropriate.
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