For the first time in the five-year history of FITARA scorecard reports, none of the 24 federal agencies reviewed received failing grades.
But the tenth scorecard, released Monday ahead of a scheduled House Oversight and Government Operations subcommittee hearing, showed agencies still have work to do on complying with the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, which requires chief information officers report to agency leadership and sets other IT modernization metrics.
Only one agency—the General Services Administration—received an A+ grade on the scorecard. Nine posted in the B range and the majority of agencies passed with C grades. While seven agencies improved their scores, 13 stayed the same and four posted lower scores compared to the previous report.
Two agencies, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Education Department, dropped out of the A-range. Both dropped full letter grades from the December 2019 scorecard. They received a B and a B+ this time around, respectively.
Still, subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly, D-Va, and subcommittee ranking member Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., touted the work agencies have done over the past five years to improve, underscoring the importance of accomplishing a full slate of passing grades.
“This achievement is a testament to the hard work of federal agencies’ chief information officers and also a testament to, I think, this committee and subcommittee’s steady and bipartisan oversight of FITARA since its enactment in 2014,” Connolly said.
Both lawmakers emphasized the subcommittee will continue with its scorecard reports as well as keep the metrics on which agencies are graded up to date. The first scorecard had just four categories; it has since expa ..
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