Senate Homeland Security Leaders Press OMB on Government IT, Cyber Guidelines Revisions
Senate Homeland Security Committee leaders pressed the Office of Management and Budget Wednesday for an update on OMB work to revise its policy on IT management and federal government cybersecurity. The 2014 Federal Information Security Modernization Act required OMB to…
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update its guidelines to “eliminate inefficient or wasteful reporting” procedures. The bill also required OMB to provide quarterly updates to Congress on its implementation of those updates (see 1412110073). OMB has opened its proposed revisions for public comment. “We appreciate OMB's work” to update the guidelines “but also emphasize the importance of completing this revision in a timely manner,” said Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and ranking member Tom Carper, D-Del., in a letter to OMB Director Shaun Donovan. The committee leaders asked Donovan to provide them with a timeline for OMB's completion of its revisions and asked OMB to regularly brief the senators' staffs on the revisions process.