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Information Technology: Effective Practices Have Improved Agencies' FITARA Implementation

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 29, 2019
Release Date April 29, 2019
Report No. GAO-19-131
Summary:

To reform government-wide information technology management, Congress enacted the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (commonly referred to as FITARA) in 2014.

What practices have federal agencies put in place to implement the law?

We reviewed nine agencies and found 12 practices officials said helped them to effectively implement one or more of the FITARA provisions.

For example, five of the agencies said that centralizing the management of software licenses was essential to meeting the software purchasing provision of the law. By doing so, agencies were able to make agency-wide purchasing decisions that saved them money.

 

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