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IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements

GAO-25-107041
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Office of Personnel Management The Director of the Office of Personnel Management should direct its agency CIO to work with OMB to ensure that annual reviews of their IT portfolio are conducted in conjunction with the Federal CIO, as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 40)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements

GAO-25-107041
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Office of Personnel Management The Director of the Office of Personnel Management should direct its agency CIO to ensure they conduct a review in conjunction with the investment's program manager and in consultation with the Federal CIO, for major IT investments that have been designated as high risk for four consecutive quarters, as prescribed by FITARA, including identifying (1) the root causes of the high level of risk of the investment; (2) the extent to which these causes can be addressed (e.g., action items and due dates); and (3) the probability of future success (e.g., outcomes). (Recommendation 41)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Cloud Computing: Selected Agencies Need to Implement Updated Guidance for Managing Restrictive Licenses

GAO-25-107114
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Office of Personnel Management The Director of the Office of Personnel Management should assign and document responsibility for identifying and managing potential impacts of restrictive software licensing practices across the agency. (Recommendation 10)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Office of Personnel Management The Director of the Office of Personnel Management should update and implement guidance to fully address identifying, analyzing, and mitigating the impacts of restrictive software licensing practices on cloud computing efforts. (Recommendation 9)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Cloud Computing: Agencies Need to Address Key OMB Procurement Requirements

GAO-24-106137
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Office of Personnel Management The Director of OPM should ensure that the CIO of OPM updates guidance to put a cloud SLA in place with every vendor when a cloud solution is deployed. The guidance should include language that addresses OMB's required element for SLAs: remediation plans for non-compliance. (Recommendation 41)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Hiring: USA Staffing System Supports Hiring Needs, but Actions Are Needed to Strengthen Training and Program Management

GAO-24-105738
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Office of Personnel Management The Director of OPM should ensure the Associate Director of OPM's Human Resources Solutions promotes the quality of USA Staffing IAA data by documenting roles and responsibilities of key personnel responsible for IAA data management in USA Staffing manual records. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Office of Personnel Management The Director of OPM should ensure the Associate Director of OPM's Human Resources Solutions promotes the quality of USA Staffing IAA data by documenting procedures to ensure IAA data housed in different repositories are consistent. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Hiring: USA Staffing System Supports Hiring Needs, but Actions Are Needed to Strengthen Training and Program Management

GAO-24-105738
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Office of Personnel Management The Director of OPM should ensure the Associate Director of OPM's Human Resources Solutions promotes the quality of USA Staffing IAA data by documenting timeframes for recording IAA data in OPM's Delphi system and manual records. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Software Licenses: Agencies Need to Take Action to Achieve Additional Savings

GAO-24-105717
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Office of Personnel Management The Director of OPM should ensure that the agency consistently tracks software licenses that are currently in use for its widely used licenses by, at a minimum, consistently implementing its procedures for tracking license usage. (Recommendation 13)
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The Office of Personnel Management concurred with this recommendation. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Software Licenses: Agencies Need to Take Action to Achieve Additional Savings

GAO-24-105717
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Office of Personnel Management
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The Director of OPM should ensure that the agency compares the inventories of software licenses that are currently in use with information on purchased licenses to identify opportunities to reduce costs and better inform investment decision making for its widely used licenses on a regular basis. At a minimum, it should consistently implement its procedures for comparing the inventories of licenses in use to purchase records. (Recommendation 14)
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The Office of Personnel Management concurred with this recommendation. As of March 2024, the agency stated that OPM's efforts to compare the inventory of current software licenses with information on purchased licenses are in progress. We will continue to monitor the department's efforts to fully implement this recommendation.
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