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DOD Concurs With GAO on Data Collection

The Pentagon should improve data collection strategies and revisit the department’s chief information officer risk ratings, GAO recommended Wednesday. DOD concurred with the suggestions, which said DOD needs to improve transparency of data sharing and collection. DOD plans to spend…

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$12 billion FY 2019-2022 on about 30 business IT systems. GAO recommended the defense secretary “direct the Chief Information Officer to revisit program risk ratings for its next submission to the federal IT Dashboard for the programs where the DOD CIO's program risk ratings indicated less risk than GAO's assessments of program risk.” The secretary should direct the undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment “to ensure the data strategies and data collection efforts for the business system and software acquisition pathways define, collect, automate, and share, with the appropriate level of visibility,” the auditor said.