"...The Office of Personnel Management is hatching a plan to digitize personnel records and automate pension calculations. That project will be included in the president’s proposed 2014 budget, which will be released in February, said OPM Director John Berry at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing Wednesday. OPM has struggled for years to convert today’s paper-based system of calculating retirees’ pensions. About $100 million has been wasted over two decades on several such efforts, with virtually nothing to show for it..."
