Digital Common Sense

March 29, Government Accountability Office — GAO−06−598T: Homeland Security: Progress Continues but Challenges Remain in Department’s Management of Information Technology (Testimony). Information technology (IT) is a critical tool for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), not only in performing its mission today, but also in transforming how it will do so in the future. In light of the importance of this transformation and the magnitude of the associated challenges, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has designated the implementation of the department and its transformation as high risk. GAO has reported that in order to effectively leverage IT as a transformation tool, DHS needs to establish certain institutional management controls and capabilities, such as having an enterprise architecture and making informed portfolio−based decisions across competing IT investments. GAO has also reported that it is critical for the department to implement these controls and associated best practices on its many IT investments. In its past work, GAO has made numerous recommendations on DHS institutional controls and on individual IT investment projects. The testimony is based on GAO’s body of work in these areas, covering the state of DHS IT
management both on the institutional level and the individual program level.
Highlights: http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06598thigh.pdf
Source: http://www.gao.gov/cgi−bin/getrpt?GAO−06−598T

DHS, GAO

Filed by Ken at 11:01 am under InfoSec