Chairman Gerry Connolly's Opening Statement [PDF]

Washington D.C. (January 14, 2022)—On Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. ET, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, will hold the Subcommittee’s biannual hearing to assess implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, and the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA), and consider opportunities for modernizing future iterations of the FITARA Scorecard. 

Since the Scorecard was first released six years ago, the law has driven positive change in acquiring and managing information technology systems across 24 federal agencies, saving taxpayers more than $20 billion and improving the security of federal IT systems.  To continue driving progress at the agency level, the Scorecard must evolve to reflect the changing nature of IT services.
 

A variety of factors, including methodology, data availability, agency motivation, and the cycle of the Scorecard, have resulted in stalling grades.  Given this stagnation, the Subcommittee plans to update the methodology behind the Scorecard to ensure it accurately reflects the agency progress.  This hearing will explore possibilities for future updates to the FITARA Scorecard so that it can continue to serve as an effective tool for oversight of federal IT management and acquisition.