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What Lawmakers Missed In Federal Data Center Hearings

InformationWeek: When the Government Accountability Office's top IT management investigator, David Powner, was called to testify before a House subcommittee on July 25 about the progress of federal IT reforms, he had plenty to say. If only he had taken the opportunity to say it.

Powner has submitted no fewer than a dozen reports to Congress since January detailing where and how the government needs to improve the way it acquires and manages more than $80 billion annually in IT spending. But when it came time to speak during the 80-minute hearing, Powner was given little opportunity to provide details on what government agencies can do to tackle what everyone agrees is too much duplication in government IT spending.

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