The message delivered by OMB the Office of Management and Budget is that performance and measurement will play critical roles in the review and approval of budgeted spending, especially the close review of agency-by-agency progress reports on meeting administration goals for managing IT projects and developing effective business cases.
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OMB is taking input from everyone they can before they make a decision either to modify the guidance or leave it alone.
So I thank the director of the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) for confirming what we said last spring, but it doesn't make the fact that we were right feel any better.
As GAO states in its letter, OMB did not advise agencies to withhold funds and OMB staff specifically instruct agencies not to improperly withhold funding in the case of cancellations.
OMB acknowledges that while reporting tools for the Federal Information Security Management Act and systems training remain solid, more work is needed in security product systems evaluation and response initiatives. In addition, more focus will be placed on how agencies identify and manage risk.
The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance.
No one even knew it was happening. We're going to work with the contractor to ensure that it's consistent with the OMB policy.
Despite this report from the Commerce Department, the OMB is providing leadership to assist agencies to adhere to the mandate to move to IPv6. OMB in the last seven months has done more than anyone else to proliferate IPv6 in the government and help with the mandate.