GAO Recommends OMB Broaden Data Center Definition
OMB hasn’t addressed a previous GAO recommendation to broaden definitions for data centers in a cost-saving initiative, the auditor said. Based on GAO recommendations, agencies participating in OMB’s data center optimization initiative expect to close 230 such centers and save…
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$1.1 billion over two years, GAO said. But in June 2019, OMB “narrowed the definition of a data center to exclude certain facilities it had previously identified as having potential cybersecurity risks,” the report said. The auditor recommended OMB reverse the 2019 decision “so that visibility of the risks of these facilities was retained.” GAO said an agency liaison on OMB’s ethics team emailed that OMB “had no comments.”