thecapacity/fitara

Management and Oversight of Federal IT Resources

##Management and Oversight of Federal Information Technology Resources The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), passed by Congress in December 2014, is a historic law that represents the first major overhaul of Federal information Technology (IT) in almost 20 years. Since FITARA’s passing, OMB has been developing guidance to agencies to ensure that this law is applied consistently governmentwide in a way that is both workable and effective. The purpose of this proposed guidance is to provide implementation guidance for FITARA and related IT management practices.

If you have ideas on how to improve the proposed guidance, you may make line edit suggestions or initiate or contribute to discussions about the content of the guidance. OMB will review and incorporate public feedback, as appropriate, to develop final guidance in the coming weeks.

Read and provide feedback on the proposed guidance at management.cio.gov.

###Timeframe and Instructions for Public Comment We are seeking your feedback and suggestions on this proposed guidance by May 30, 2015; however, we strongly encourage you to submit any substantive comments you may have by May 15, 2015. Early feedback is critical in ensuring we have time to adequately consider and follow-up on the comments we receive, as needed. Similar to the best practices for agile software development promoted in our existing guidance and strategy documents, we believe this iterative learning approach will allow us to refine our perspective on whether any specific input is needed to help address issues raised early in the process.

You may provide feedback in three ways:

1. You may e-mail us at [email protected] if you would like to comment privately.

2. Content suggestions and discussions are welcome via GitHub “issues.” Each issue is a conversation initiated by a member of the public. We encourage you to browse and join in on discussions in existing issues, or start a new conversation by opening a new issue.

3. Direct changes and line edits to the content may submitted through a "pull request" by clicking “Edit Guidance." You don't need to install any software to suggest a change. You can use GitHub's in-browser editor to edit files and submit a pull request for your changes to be merged into the document. Directions on how to submit a pull request can be found here. Open pull requests for the proposed guidance can be found here.

Technical Details

The proposed guidance on this page is compiled from Markdown files using Jekyll. To propose a specific change, you can submit a pull request with your change to one of these source Markdown files.

You can also use Github's in-browser editing feature to make an edit to one of these Markdown files and submit your change for consideration without needing to install any additional software.

License

As a work of the United States Government, this project is in the public domain within the United States.

Additionally, we waive copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.