None of two dozen departments and major agencies rated an A in compliance with the Federal Information Technology Reform Act under a House committee’s latest report, although half did pull up their overall grades and only one, Transportation, received a failing grade.
The latest assessment by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee of FITARA, a 2014 law designed to improve the government’s IT capabilities and enhance the authority of federal agencies’ chief information officers to make IT related decisions, assigns the highest overall grade, a B+, to Commerce, Interior, VA, EPA, GSA and USAID.
Of the four areas specifically rated, Commerce was the only one receiving an A in three–transparency and risk management, portfolio review, and data center consolidation–but its overall grade was dragged down by a D in CIO authority enhancements. That latter category overall was where the most improvement was said to still be needed; of the 24 CFO Act departments and agencies rated, nine received Fs and three were deemed incomplete.
In contrast, eight received As in data center consolidation and five received As in the three other categories.
The grades were determined through May of this year. Twelve improved overall since the previous grading, covering through last October, 11 remained the same and one, Transportation, declined–from D to F+.
