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Senate Subcommittee Releases Report on Root Causes of Air Force’s ECSS Failure

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, July 7th, 2014

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Senate Subcommittee Releases Report on Root Causes of Air Force’s ECSS Failure

Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)

The Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a 48-page report blasting the Air Force’s canceled audit-management program, entitled, “The Air Force’s Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS): A Cautionary Tale on the Need for Business Process Reengineering And Complying with Acquisition Best Practices.” The report, released Monday afternoon, concludes the Air Force violated guidelines and best practices in its effort to acquire ECSS, a logistics and supply-chain management platform built around an enterprise resource system that would have managed Air Force…

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