
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee commended the federal chief information officer for progress made on several IT acquisition efficiencies, but the senators remained critical of the Department of Defense, which accounts for 50 percent of federal IT spending. The main point of contention at the Thursday hearing was DoD’s contributions to the Federal IT Dashboard. Launched in 2009 out of the White House, the publicly available dashboard shows status updates for 750 major IT investments across 27…