- The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 that shapes DoD's and other Federal Agencies' approaches to IT acquisition and management;
- The House of Representatives Report 104-450, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, Conference Report, that provides an historical legislative perspective for the Act;
- Title 10, United States Code, Section 2223 that gives additional responsibilities to the DoD CIO and the CIOs of the Military Departments;
- Executive Order 13011, "Federal Information Technology," that provides policy guidance for significantly improving the acquisition and management of IT by implementing the Clinger-Cohen Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995;
- Secretary of Defense Cohen's Memorandum, "Implementation of Subdivision E of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-106)," June 2, 1997, that defines and clarifies how the Act will be implemented in DoD, and the responsibilities of the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) vis--vis those of the Military Department CIOs;
- Deputy Secretary of Defense Hamre's Memorandum, "DoD Chief Information Officer Executive Board," March 31, 2000, and DoD CIO Executive Board Charter; and
- Deputy Secretary of Defense Hamre's Memorandum, "DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) Guidance and Policy Memorandum No. 8-8001 - March 31, 2000 - Global Information Grid," March 31, 2000.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA), formerly the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 (ITMRA), is a 1996 United States federal law, designed to improve the way the federal government acquires, uses and disposes information technology (IT).
The Clinger-Cohen Act supplements the information resources management policies by establishing a comprehensive approach for executive agencies to improve the acquisition and management of their information resources, by:[1]
- focusing information resource planning to support their strategic missions;
- implementing a capital planning and investment control process that links to budget formulation and execution; and
- rethinking and restructuring the way they do their work before investing in information systems.
The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 directed the development and maintenance of Information Technology Architectures (ITAs) by federal agencies to maximize the benefits of information technology (IT) within the Government. In subsequent guidance on implementing the Clinger-Cohen Act, the Office of Management and Budget stipulated that agency ITA's "...should be consistent with Federal, agency, and bureau information architectures.."[2] In keeping with OMB's mandate for consistency between both federal and agency ITA's, in 1999 the Federal CIO Council initiated the Federal Enterprise Architecture, essentially a federal-wide ITA that would "... develop, maintain, and facilitate the implementation of the top-level enterprise architecture for the Federal Enterprise." [3]
