Information systems are critical to the health, economy, and security of the nation. To support agency missions, the federal government plans to spend at least $82 billion on information technology (IT) investments in fiscal year 2014. However, as we have previously reported, prior IT expenditures too often have produced failed projects-that is, projects with multimillion dollar cost overruns and schedule delays measured in years, with questionable mission-related achievements.Many of these investments have been broadly scoped projects that aim to deliver their capabilities several years after initiation.