29 December 2018

Implementation of Recommendations Is Needed to Strengthen Acquisitions, Operations, and Cybersecurity


The federal government has spent billions on information technology projects that failed or have performed poorly. These efforts often suffered from ineffective management. Agencies have also had cybersecurity failures affecting millions of people.

This testimony addresses 2 issues we identified as high risk for the federal government: management of IT acquisitions and operations, and cybersecurity.

We have made numerous recommendations on these issues since 2010.

510 of our 1,242 recommendations on management and operations have not been implemented.

688 of our about 3,000 recommendations on cybersecurity have not been implemented.

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