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The latest scorecard on agency progress in implementing the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act shows continued improvement in many areas, although some grades were brought down by the addition of a new measure, compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act.

The scorecard, the eighth in a series being released twice yearly by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, continues to show no agency with an overall grade of A, although Education, GSA, NSF, SBA and AID scored B+. Both AID and Labor would have achieved As if their CIOs reported directly to the head or deputy head of the agency, the committee said.

It cited work to implement the online IT Dashboard and conducting PortfolioStat engagements as especially positive overall, with more A and B grades and fewer D and F grades in both.

Grades overall were highest in software licensing with 20 As and four Fs–Commerce, Interior, EPA and OPM. They were lowest on FISMA compliance, with 12 agencies getting either a D or an F–Agriculture, Commerce and HHS received Fs–and five that received an A or a B–NSF received the only A.

The committee did not update the grades from last December on data center optimization, citing pending changes in policy, which were finalized just ahead of the scorecard’s release.