Documents/GAO2010/3: Government Transformation/3.3.6: IT

3.3.6: IT

Assess the government’s planning, implementation, and use of IT to improve performance and modernize federal programs and operations

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Key Efforts: Assess and promote the application and use of IT investment management best practices across the government. Promote adopting sound enterprise architectures and assess government enterprise architecture efforts to engineer business processes for implementing IT systems that optimize mission performance. Review federal agencies’ management and effectiveness in carrying out systems acquisition, development, and integration efforts—including complex, multiyear modernizations. Review the management of government telecommunications and interconnected systems and federal agencies’ effectiveness in providing secure, reliable, and fast Internet and Web connections. Review government progress in developing effective IT human-capital. Note: Key efforts related to computer security, cybersecurity, and protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure are included under Performance Goal 2.1.7.

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