FITARA
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Rep. Will Hurd, the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology, plans to release the first set of grades for agencies on how they are implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, and the news isn’t good for many agencies.
November 03, 2015 -
The IT Management Maturity Model is designed to help your agency assess where it stands in five critical functions of IT management. It's a three-phase project developed by more than 50 experts in IT, finance, human resources and acquisition. Darren Ash, deputy executive director for Corporate Management at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and co-chair of the ACT-IAC FITARA Implementation Project, updates In Depth with Francis Rose with the latest.
November 02, 2015 -
Agencies are slowly beginning to embrace that a culture change among top management is coming, as they begin to implement FITARA. Federal CIO Tony Scott said he's pleased overall with the plans agencies have submitted to the Office of Management and Budget so far.
October 30, 2015 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will soon release the first round of grades on implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. One of the things the committee will grade agencies on is their IT spending. Richard McKinney, chief information officer at the Transportation Department, told In Depth with Francis Rose that determining what counts as IT spending and what doesn't isn't as easy as it looks any more.
October 30, 2015 -
The Government Accountability Office is helping the House Oversight Committee develop a scorecard for implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. The metrics will likely look the same for every agency. But that may not be the fairest way to grade. Sonny Hashmi, managing director for Global Government at Box and former chief information officer at the General Services Administration, tells In Depth with Francis Rose at the Executive Leadership Conference different agencies may achieve success in different ways.
October 29, 2015 -
The Homeland Security Department is working through phase two of its Management Cube initiative. The project gives the department a better view of its own financial, acquisition, human capital, contracting, asset and security data.
October 23, 2015 -
The White House issued the draft version of Circular A-130 updating the 15-year-old policy, specifically with a host of new definitions and requirements for protecting networks and systems.
October 21, 2015 -
Rose Wang, founder and CEO of the Binary Group and David Chesebrough, president of the Association for Enterprise Information join host John Gilroy to discuss enterprise transformation and the impact of Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act on federal IT. September 29, 2015
September 28, 2015 -
The Transportation Department isn’t implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act like many of its cohorts. DoT has an 800-pound gorilla to deal with called the Federal Aviation Administration. In his weekly feature, Inside the Reporter’s Notebook Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller writes about why DoT must customize its FITARA implementation.
September 22, 2015 -
DoT CIO Richard McKinney said he's not buying any new hardware and will not approve IT spending plans unless they get the program off of legacy infrastructure.
September 21, 2015 -
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) says the threat of another government shutdown has not pushed members of Congress any closer to the negotiating table.
September 16, 2015 -
Congressman Will Hurd (R-Texas), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on IT, said he will use the FITARA scorecard currently under development to hold agencies accountable. He promised hearings on both FITARA and the OPM data breach this fall.
September 10, 2015 -
Congress will keep a close eye on whether the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act works for agencies as planned. Agencies were supposed to hand in their plans for implementing FITARA last week. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says it might consider giving agencies report cards to measure how well they stick to those plans. Dave Powner, director of information technology management issues at the Government Accountability Office, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why grades are a good idea and should push agencies to perform better.
August 20, 2015 -
Agencies are under an Aug. 15 deadline to describe how they’ll implement the a key part of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. As part of a forthcoming FITARA dashboard, OMB wants to broadcast those plans as widely as possible.
August 12, 2015 -
This coming Saturday marks the first major deadline for agencies to begin to implement the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, or FITARA. They’ll need to send the Office of Management and Budget detailed plans for how they intend to boost the authority and accountability of their chief information officers. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu has more on what OMB’s looking for in those plans and how it intends to make sure agencies stick to them.
August 11, 2015