The IT Dashboard is a new website (http://it.usaspending.gov/) enabling federal agencies, industry, the general public and other stakeholders to view details of federal information technology investments. The purpose of the Dashboard is to provide information on the effectiveness of government IT programs and to support decisions regarding the investment and management of resources. The Dashboard is now being used by the Administration and Congress to make budget and policy decisions.
The Administration’s Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, has asked for input from industry regarding the value and use of the IT Dashboard. IAC is undertaking a project to respond to this request.
Objective and Deliverables
The objective of this project is to provide a cross-industry answer to the following questions:
- What steps should be taken to improve the quality of the information contained in the IT Dashboard?
- Are individual private sector IT companies using the IT Dashboard to manage projects? If yes:
- How is the Dashboard being used by the company?
- Who in the company is using the Dashboard?
- If the government uses the dashboard to manage projects at the executive level, what information -- according to industry -- would be the most pertinent and succinct?
- Will/could the Dashboard have an impact upon corporate decisions and investments made by industry? If yes, where and how will this impact be felt?
- What concerns does industry have in the use of the IT Dashboard and its data?
- What benefits does industry see from the Dashboard?
Three roundtables were held and a summary of the comments are now being prepared for submission to the Federal CIO. The comments will be made publicly available.