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Cyber

DoD Receives ‘D’ Grade On Latest IT Scorecard, Agencies Improve Overall Performance

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, December 12th, 2018

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DoD Receives ‘D’ Grade On Latest IT Scorecard, Agencies Improve Overall Performance

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The Pentagon no longer has a failing grade for technology acquisition, by a slim margin, receiving a “D+” on the latest version of a congressional scorecard that showed overall improvement across federal agencies in software licensing management and cost savings from data center consolidation.DoD’s latest grade on the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard is its best since December 2016, while still receiving “F’s” for Chief Information Officer software development authorities, a review of its IT portfolio and…

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