Welcome to USDA Comprehensive Information Management System!
Mission
About CIMS
Since 2004, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) have jointly worked on the Comprehensive Information Management System (CIMS) project. CIMS provides a single, centralized repository of RMA and FSA information for use by authorized agencies and private industry partners to meet their program administration data needs. The CIMS project seeks to support information requests, assist in timely identification of possible reporting errors, reduce fraud and abuse vulnerabilities, reduce costs associated with data collection, and improve overall program integrity in the respective agency programs.
The CIMS system weekly loads include RMA and FSA nationwide producer and crop acreage information for the 5 most current years. Approved USDA users can utilize web applications to access available data. CIMS also provides a tool that may prove helpful to state and county FSA offices and Approved Insurance Providers as they review and process information required for program participation. Also, the CIMS process builds data marts of differences between RMA and FSA producer reported data on entity/business type and crop acreage. CIMS makes these differences available to the responsible program authority for reconciliation using current program authorities, processes, and procedures.
CIMS demonstrates that by efficiently sharing RMA and FSA electronic program data, the agencies will more effectively ensure program compliance, reduce program administration costs, and reduce the reporting burdens on producers.
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