The chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Reform delivered a clear to-do list on Thursday to Federal CIOs: pursue further data center consolidation, tighten the reporting lines between CIOs and agency heads, and craft better roadmaps for IT modernization.
At the subcommittee’s hearing on its FITARA 8.0 Scorecard, Chairman Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and ranking member Mark Meadows, R-N.C., aired their concerns over the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) policy, but also issued broad pointers for CIOs to improve their agency FITARA grades.
Connolly also referred to results from recent MeriTalk research finding that most Federal IT leaders see FITARA as helping to improve the efficiency of government IT, but only 23 percent giving the law an “A” grade.
Consolidation and Modernization
“The big thing for me and the chairman is data centers and making sure those are consolidated,” said Rep. Meadows.
On the larger issue of IT modernization, Meadows offered less specific recommendations but asked agency CIOs to come back to the subcommittee with more defined roadmaps for…
