From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500AM
By Jason Miller
The annual exercise that is the IT passback guidance from the Office of Management and Budget has lost its shine.
Where it used to be a great game of cat and mouse between the White House and reporters — well, at least this reporter — to find out what new IT initiatives or priorities the administration is planning for the coming year, alas it’s no more.
Multiple agency IT officials and chief information officers say the governmentwide guidance is just a reminder of what they already are doing, and there’s nothing new from a governmentwide guidance perspective. OMB, instead, focused more on agency specific requirements, but again, most were just reminders of goals the agency set for 2014 and beyond.
“It seems lighter this year than it has been in quite some time,” said one agency CIO, who requested anonymity in order to speak about the pre-decisional document. “They pushed harder last year, especially knowing agencies were behind on some initiatives, OMB directed us to accelerate some of those initiatives. Even in security areas, it’s just high level implementation guidance. There is nothing pointed in terms of new or updated initiatives or giving us deadlines.”
Multiple CIOs confirmed the governmentwide guidance reiterated existing priorities around data center consolidation, migrating systems to the cloud, shared services and, of course, implementing continuous diagnostics and mitigation of federal systems and stopping insider threats.
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