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After spending $ 1.1 billion on its development, the USAF concluded in 2012 that the system, "has not yielded any significant military capability" and estimated that, "it would require an additional $ 1.1B for about a quarter of the original scope to continue and fielding would not be until 2020."
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The purpose of the system was to enable the organisation to track all of its physical assets including airplanes, fuel, and even spare parts. The ECSS program was established through two main contracts. The first contract was with the database software company
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The project was undertaken to develop a single integrated enterprise resource planning system built using commercial off-the-shelf software, aimed at tracking all of its physical assets and making efficiency savings.
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characterized the failed project as "one of the most egregious examples of mismanagement in recent memory."
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Based on that conclusion, the USAF canceled the program in November 2012.
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operations by, in part, consolidating and replacing over 200 separate
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enterprise resource planning
United States Air Force
logistics
legacy systems
Oracle
commercial off-the-shelf
Computer Science Corporation
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
Carl Levin
John McCain
"Air Force scraps massive ERP project after racking up $ 1B in costs"
Computerworld
"US senators question Pentagon on $ 1 bln canceled program"
Reuters
"$ 1 billion wasted on Air Force computer system"
NBC Nightly News
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