The GAO also called on the GSA to carry out recommendations to improve its capabilities to investigate and remediate cyber threats, including fully carrying out OMB guidance on those events. Image: Sergey Saulyak/Shutterstock.com
The GAO has called to the GSA’s attention recommendations still pending to improve the acquisition and management of federal agency IT, saying that “Federal IT investments too frequently fail to deliver capabilities in a timely, cost-effective manner.”
“Key management challenges—such as a lack of disciplined project planning and program oversight—continue to hamper effective acquisition and management of the government’s IT assets,” the GAO said in a report on recommendations pertinent to GSA’s chief information office.
It said that the GSA “needs to take steps to address requirements” in the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act to annually review the IT portfolio in conjunction with the Federal CIO. “Until GSA implements this recommendation, it may miss opportunities to identify areas of duplication within its IT portfolio and to develop strategies to streamline operations and optimize resource allocation,” it said.
It also called attention to recommendations that GSA “ensure that the agency updates its AI use case inventory to include all the required information, at minimum, and takes steps to ensure that the data in the inventory aligns with provided instructions.”
The GAO also called on the GSA to carry out recommendations to improve its capabilities to investigate and remediate cyber threats, including fully carrying out OMB guidance on those events.
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