Federal Information Technology de Ellen V. Wright

Federal Information Technology

Ellen V. Wright

The federal government spends billons of dollars on information technology (IT) projects each year. Consequently, it is important that projects be managed effectively to ensure that public resources are wisely invested. To this end, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which plays a key role in overseeing the federal government's IT investments, identifies major projects that are poorly planned by placing them on a Management Watch List and requires agencies to identify high-risk projects that are performing poorly (i.e., have performance shortfalls). Having accurate and transparent project cost and schedule information is also essential to effective oversight. At times, changes to this information -- called a rebaselining -- are made to reflect changed development circumstances. These changes can be done for valid reasons, but can also be used to mask cost overruns and schedule delays.

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Preface; Information Technology: Agencies Need to Establish Comprehensive Policies to Address Changes to Projects' Cost, Schedule, and Performance Goals; Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Improve Planning, Management, and Oversight of Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars; Information Technology: Further Improvements Needed to Identify and Oversee Poorly Planned and Performing Objects; Statement for the Record, Norm V. Brown, Center for Program Transportation Before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee (July 31, 2008) Hearing Entitled "Off-Line and Off-Budget: The Dismal State of Federal Information Technology Planning" Statement: Actions to Avoid "IT" Train-wrecks: An Agenda for Change; Statement of Paul A. Denett, Federal Procurement Policy Before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate (July 31, 2008); Statement of the Honorable Karen Evans, Electronic Government and Information Technology, Office of Management and Budget Before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information and International Security, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (July 31, 2008); Testimony of Alfred Grasso, The MITRE Corporation to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the subject of "Off-line and Off-Budget: The Dismal State of Federal Information Technology Planning"; Oral Testimony of The Honorable Thomas Jarrett, Delaware Dept. of Technology and Information "Offline and Off-Budget: The Dismal State of Information Technology Planning in the Federal Government" Before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (July 31, 2008); Index.