Leadership commitment to national cybersecurity regressed, in large part due to the lack of a comprehensive National Cyber Strategy or national cyber director.

Asked at a hearing Wednesday how lawmakers could be of assistance in helping agencies better secure their IT infrastructures, Kent pointed immediately to a "continued focus on workforce activities."

A recent rash of agency CIO departures has GAO Comptroller General Gene Dodaro worried about the road to IT acquisition reform.

Cybersecurity and census IT drew concern from the GAO in its 2017 High-Risk List.

Management of information technology investments is again a target of the Government Accountability Office's annual report on reducing fragmentation, overlap and duplication in federal services.