Fully Implement Practices for Transition to New Telecom Contracts, GAO Says
The Department of Commerce should implement all practices for transitioning its telecom systems to next-generation enterprise infrastructure before General Services Administration phaseout of existing contracts in 2023, GAO reported Tuesday. GSA's goal is for agencies to have switched 50% by…
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March 31, 2021, fully by Sept. 30, 2022. Commerce is among 11 agencies that reported they won’t meet the 2022 deadline but will fully switch before contracts expire in 2023. Commerce plans to complete its move by December 2022. The department needs to update its telecom inventory to include all assets and services it uses, identify future needs and finalize responsibilities for information security management, GAO said. The report noted similar recommendations to the departments of Health and Human Services, State and Veterans Affairs, and NASA. Commerce “concurred with our five recommendations to the agency and stated that it will take steps to implement them.”