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Fast Facts
The federal government spends more than $100 billion on IT and cyber-related investments annually but many of them have failed or performed poorly, have been poorly managed, and have security weaknesses.
Improving IT acquisitions and operations management and ensuring cybersecurity have been on our High Risk List since 2015 and 1997, respectively. We testified that little progress has been made.
The federal government and agencies must take action. For example, the government should develop and execute a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy.
Agencies have yet to implement many of our critical recommendations in these areas.
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What GAO Found
In its March 2021 high-risk series update, GAO reported that significant attention was needed to improve the federal government s management of information technology (IT) acquisitions and operations, and ensure the nation s cybersecurity. Regarding management of IT, overall progress in addressing this area has r
By Natalie Alms
A bipartisan bill introduced in the House on Friday takes aim at updating the process for agencies’ creation of congressionally mandated performance plans.
Agencies are required to make publically available performance plans annually that lay out their strategic goals and objectives. The law mandating this process requires agencies’ chief human capital officers to help create the plans, but Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chair of the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and Jody Hice (R-Ga.), the panel’s ranking member, want to require more agency leaders to take part in this process.
The House Government Operations Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for April 16 at 9:30 a.m. to examine compliance with the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA).
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An investigator general report found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) improperly doled out and managed millions of dollars worth of taxpayer dollars in information technology contracts between 2017 and 2019.
The EPA s Office of Inspector General reported Wednesday that the agency had spent $52.5 million in taxpayer money on the deals, which the watchdog had investigated following a complaint about contract and bidding irregularities with three major information technology contracts.