Grades are still being finalized but it looks like no agency will receive a D or F grade in next week’s FITARA Scorecard, Rep. Gerry Connolloy, D-Va., said Monday.
Connolly, speaking at a House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing, said that the scorecard grades show the federal government has been making real progress on information technology modernization since the implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act in 2015. On the first IT scorecard, only two agencies received B grades.
The scores for the 24 graded agencies will be finalized tomorrow after a meeting with the Government Accountability Office, Jamie Smith, Connolly’s communications director, told Nextgov. The biannual FITARA scorecard hearing will take place July 30.
But legacy IT systems still need updating, Connolly said, and that’s why his subcommittee held the hearing on modernization Monday afternoon. The hearing came days after the House Budget committee held its own hearing on the same topic.
Both committees addressed how the coronavirus pandemic underscores the need for modernization, and in particular, the need for the federal government to consider updated information technology as essential for serving the needs of the American people rather than as a wishlist item.
Witnesses and subcommittee lawmakers called for updates to FITARA, the Federal Information Security Management Act and the Technology Modernization Fund abound, and many were quick to point out that industry advancements have far outpaced updates to the laws that direct how the government manages IT updates.
Project management, in particular, could improve if government agencies mimicked industry best practices, Matthew Cornelius, executive director at the Alliance for Digital Innovation, said in response ..
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