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NewsGAO: IT Dashboard better, still has problems
Information on the Office of Management and Budget's online dashboard of federal agency performance in implementing information technology systems is not as inaccurate as it once was says the Read more...
GAO: OMB doesn't have accurate tally of agency IT spending
Maybe a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but when agencies call information technology projects something else, they limit the ability of the Office of Management and Budget to oversee Read more...
$8 million not enough for e-gov websites, says Kundra
Lower than expected congressional appropriations require the Office of Management and Budget to cancel two collaborative websites it had under development, says Vivek Kundra, the OMB administrator Read more...
At the State Department, 'the worst' TechStat experience yielded good results
Participating in an Office of Management and Budget-led TechStat session "was really one of the worst experiences of my time in this job," said State Department Chief Information Officer Susan Swart. Read more...
IT Dashboard needs work, say federal CIOs
The federal chief information officer attitudes toward the IT Dashboard can be summed up as one of skeptical approbation, according to information from an annual survey of agency information Read more...
Kundra: TechStat needs $60 million
A planned expansion of Office of Management and Budget "TechStat" meetings requires $60 million in congressional appropriations, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told a House panel Read more...
IT Dashboard still inaccurate, says GAO
The IT Dashboard still does not live up to its billing as a real-time indicator of agency information technology programs' status, says the Government Accountability Office. In a report dated March Read more...
OMB tells agencies to hold TechStat meetings
Federal agencies should hold at least one internally-managed "TechStat" meeting by March 31, says the Office of Management and Budget in a "TechStat Toolkit" newly available on cio.gov. TechStat is Read more...
OMB targets 26 IT projects for critical assessment
The Office of Management and Budget released a list August 23 of 26 "high-priority" IT projects across federal agencies that are at-risk for termination or serious modification if significant changes Read more...
OMB IT Dashboard contains inaccurate information, says GAO
The IT Dashboard, a much-vaunted Office of Management and Budget website displaying evaluations of federal information technology projects, contains inaccurate cost and schedule data, according to Read more...
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