New ideas for updating a very old scorecard, at which agencies roll their eyes

Published: May 30, 2023, 7:38 a.m.

Deep in the\xa0weeds of agency management, you find something called the FITARA scorecard. FITARA stands for Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. It became law in 2015. Twice each year, agencies receive a scorecard from Congress on how they did managing their IT activities. Now a team, under the IT trade group ACT-IAC, has come up with a list of recommendations for revising the FITARA scorecard. To fet the the whys and wherefores,\xa0Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke in-studio with former federal CIO\xa0Alan Balutis along with the the Executive Director of\xa0the Policy Center\xa0at the MITRE Corporation, Dave Powner.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices