From: FierceGovernmentIT
FierceGovernmentIT FOIAs OMB for PortfolioStat documents
By David Perera
A relatively large concern of the Office of Management and Budget’s PortfolioStat has been authority of agency chief information officers, show documents obtained by FierceGovernmentIT through the Freedom of Information Act .
The documents (.pdf) also show an apparent increase in OMB interest in agency enterprise architectures, a method of documenting current technology environments and planning for future states – an interest that subsided in OMB during the first Obama administration after a strong push for it under the George W. Bush administration.
FierceGovernmentIT asked OMB in April under FOIA for documents associated with PortfolioStat as part of our ongoing effort to shed light on federal oversight efforts, given that OMB likes to broadcast the fact of programs such as PortfolioStat or TechStat but is generally loath to talk about them in any depth in public – leaving us, we feel, little alternative but to resort to FOIAing the self-proclaimed most transparent administration in history. Our reporting in December 2012, for example, showed that the pace of OMB-led TechStat oversight meetings has considerably slowed.
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