The letters are in response to concerns about how agencies are designing and implementing processes for information technology capital planning, performance, acquisition, and management.
Agencies continue to suffer numerous information technology failures.
Each year we get reports from agencies, the media and GAO detailing how many federal information technology programs are mismanaged. Since Congress passed legislation four years ago to address some serious shortcomings, we need to follow-up to ensure those reforms are being implemented. As part of their oversight agenda, Senators Thompson and Lieberman developed a series of questions to ascertain the status of the Clinger-Cohen Act compliance throughout the Executive branch.