OMB refutes the watchdog's finding that it should adopt a more precise scale for rating agencies' IT security.

Robert Westbrooks says the pandemic response accountability committee is triaging datasets as it progresses with fraud detection work.

With the procurement of voice services, the department can focus fully on modernizing IT and telecom.

The DATA Act ordered 51 OIGs to evaluate how agencies are handling spending data. Thirty-seven of them gave good marks.

"[IT] is a long-standing, serious, and ubiquitous challenge for federal agencies," the report states.

CIGIE's new website, Oversight.gov, collects and aggregates IG reports examining waste, fraud and abuse from across the government.