Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and CTO Aneesh Chopra, in testimony before the Senate Budget Committee’s Task Force on Government Performance, said government IT departments need to play a larger role in improving the efficiency of their agencies.

“Kundra pointed to the recently launched IT Dashboard as one way to encourage these changes… He noted that, sparked by the IT Dashboard and the Department of Veterans Affairs’ massive IT portfolio review this year, the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Housing and Urban Development are also conducting their own comprehensive reviews,” writes InformationWeek’s J. Nicholas Hoover.

“He said that the administration planned to roll out additional dashboards across other functional areas, as it plans to do for government openness as it ramps up its Open Government Directive, in order to push evidence-based decisions on CIOs and other government leaders,” Hoover writes.

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