Review of SBA's Implementation of the Federal Information Technology Reform Act

This evaluation report summarizes the results of our review of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA).

Our objective was to assess the Agency’s progress in implementing the objectives of FITARA as outlined in Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-15-14, Management and Oversight of Federal Information Technology.  The scope of our analysis included assessing the Agency’s progress in implementing critical components of FITARA from October 2015 to June 2017.  The Small Business Administration (SBA) identified implementation of FITARA as integral to meeting its strategic goal of implementing and maintaining modern, secure, and reliable information technology (IT) systems and services.

We found that although SBA has made progress in implementing FITARA, it needs to consistently establish performance baselines for its IT investments and update system development guidance to reflect current project implementation methodologies.  Additionally, it needs to fully deploy a strategy for implementing enterprise architecture and implement an IT workforce planning process.  We provided six recommendations to improve implementation of FITARA.