FITARA 6.0 Scorecard Highlights Need for Federal Agencies to Re-Org
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On Wednesday 5/23/2018, the SubCommittees on Information Technology and Government Operations met in Congress to hear testimonies from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Defense (DoD) as they discussed their scores on the latest Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) 6.0 Scorecard. USDA received an overall score of D- and DoD received an F+ (again). During the hearing, the Committees re-iterated three main points for Agencies to improve their scores. Here is my analysis.
- Implement the MEGABYTE Act: Agencies that did not show evidence of how they were managing their software licenses, dropped their FITARA score one letter grade.
- Implement the MGT Act: Agencies that did not show evidence that they have a working capital fund to modernize their legacy systems, dropped their FITARA score one letter grade.
- Re-Org to show CIO reporting to Secretary or Deputy Secretary: Agencies that answeredNo that their CIO's boss is the Secretary or Deputy Secretary, dropped their FITARA score one letter grade.
Here is an example of how the scores were assessed using USAID:
- Implement the MEGABYTE Act: USAID received an A in this category so their grade would have remained an A- from their FITARA 5.0 grade.
- Implement the MGT Act: USAID received a D in this category so their grade would have decreased from an A- to a B-.
- Re-Org to show CIO reporting to Secretary or Deputy Secretary: USAID showed a No for this category so their grade would have decreased from a B- to a C-.
This is how USAID moved from an
A-
in the FITARA Scorecard 5.0 to a
C-
in FITARA Scorecard 6.0.
Here is the breakdown on the FITARA 6.0 Scorecard:
- A: No Agencies.
- B+: Ed, GSA & NSF.
- C+: DOC, Energy, HUD, DOI, DOT, VA, EPA, NASA & SSA
- C-: HHS, DOL, & USAID
- D+: OPM & SBA
- D-: USDA, DHS, DOJ, State, Treasury & NRC
- F+: DOD
There is still so much work to be done. Federal OCIOs should consider using an IT Governance Approach to implement FITARA at their agency and improve their FITARA Scorecards, even more. For those Federal Agencies where the CIOs are still not reporting to the Secretary or Deputy Secretary, the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act mandates that a re-org occurs to address this impediment. USDA testified that by FITARA Scorcard 7.0, they would have this problem fixed.
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