Omb Can Make More Effective Use of Its Investment Reviews

By General Accounting Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000206091
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.1 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Omb Can Make More Effective Use of Its Investment Reviews
Author:	General Accounting Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

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Excerpt: For the fiscal year 2005 budget, OMB developed processes and criteria for including IT investments on its Management Watch List. In doing so, it identified opportunities to strengthen investments and promote improvements in IT management. However, it did not develop a single, aggregate list identifying the projects and their weaknesses. Instead, OMB officials told GAO that to identify IT projects with weaknesses, individual OMB analysts used scoring criteria that the office established for evaluating the justifications for funding that federal agencies submit for major projects. These analysts, each of whom is typically responsible for several federal agencies, were then responsible for maintaining information on these projects. To derive the total number of projects on the list that OMB reported for fiscal year 2005, OMB polled its individual analysts and compiled the result. However, OMB officials told GAO that they did not compile a list that identified the specific projects and their identified weaknesses. The officials added that they did not construct a single list because they did not see such an activity as necessary. Thus, OMB has not fully exploited the opportunity to use the list as a tool for analyzing IT investments on a governmentwide basis.