Agencies get annual IT grades

The State Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received the lowest grades as part of a biannual scorecard on federal agencies’ information technology management.

Version 9.0 of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard, released twice a year by the House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on government operations, awarded D- grades to both the State Department and the NRC for IT modernization issues.

The scorecard gave overall IT modernization grades to two dozen federal agencies, and also gave individual scores to agencies on their cybersecurity, software licensing, modernization of government technology, and transparency and risk management.

While the State Department and the NRC did not receive high marks, the scorecard overall showed improvement from past scorecards, which have been issued since 2015.

Three agencies — the Department of Education, the General Services Administration, and the U.S. Agency for International Development — received an A or A+ on their IT management efforts.