Federal chief information officer Clare Martorana Friday pushed for the retention of CIO reporting relationship metrics within the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard.
Giving evidence during a federal IT modernization House Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing Friday morning, she highlighted the role the scorecard has played in codifying the authority of CIOs within the c-suite of federal government departments.
“[W]e have found that agency CIOs must also have a voice as strategic executive ‘C-suite’ partners to ensure the cybersecurity posture of the agency is strong and the agency is on an accelerated path to IT modernization. We therefore recommend that the CIO Reporting Relationship metric be retained in the FITARA Scorecard,” she said in evidence to lawmakers… Read the full article here.
