The federal government annually spends more than $100 billion on IT investments—many of which have suffered from ineffective management. Congress and the President enacted laws, such as the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), to improve this.
Since November 2015, Congress has biannually assigned letter grades (i.e., A, B, C, D, or F) to 24 federal agencies on their efforts to implement FITARA and manage IT.
We testified that these scorecards have evolved beyond FITARA and have served as effective oversight tools that show steady improvement. In 2015, 7 agencies got a C or higher, but in 2021, all 24 agencies did so.
Biannual IT scorecards show steady improvement.
