“Strong support from management and collaboration among a department’s component agencies are important factors in achieving success on the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.”
“FITARA requires agencies to, among other things, keep track of their hardware and software inventories, develop a comprehensive software licensing policy and detail the cost savings or avoidance this creates.”
“The GAO took a look at nine agencies — the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, plus the U.S. Agency for International Development, NASA and the General Services Administration…”
“The first FITARA scorecard was released in November 2015, and has been released twice a year ever since. The next one is expected by the end of June.”
“The GAO focused on the five FITARA provisions (out of seven total) it felt were crucial to creating improvement in IT management and/or cost savings: enhancement of the CIO’s authority; greater transparency and improved risk management; regular portfolio review; data center consolidation; and software purchasing.” Read the full article here.
Source: How 9 Agencies Implemented Key Portions of FITARA – By Gienna Shaw, June 20, 2019. FedTech.
