{"id":15961,"date":"2018-05-22T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/22\/grades-plummet-on-latest-government-it-evaluation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:43:45","slug":"grades-plummet-on-latest-government-it-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/it-networks\/2018\/05\/22\/grades-plummet-on-latest-government-it-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Grades plummet on latest government IT evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Government Accountability Office has released its latest evaluation of federal IT management and acquisition, and a majority of agencies saw their scores drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limited improvements on established grading categories coupled with the addition of cybersecurity and working capital fund evaluations were among the struggles reflected on the sixth Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scorecard 6.0, released May 21, 2018, saw the inclusion of a category evaluating agencies\u2019 efforts to develop working capital funds, which were established under the Modernizing Government Technology Act <\/a>in December 2017. Only three agencies \u2014 the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Labor and Small Business Administration \u2014 managed to get above a C, and no agency scored an A in the category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new scorecard also included a preview of another category evaluating cybersecurity, which graded agencies on their Federal Information Security Management Act<\/a> efforts without that grade impacting final agency scores. No agency achieved above a C in that category.<\/p>\n\n\n\t