Bush rescinds order that created CIO Council

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http://www.fcw.com/article94533-05-16-06-Web

Bush rescinds order that created CIO Council

By Michael Hardy <mailto:mhardy () fcw com>
Published on May 16, 2006

President Bush has rescinded the 1996 executive order that created the
Chief Information Officers Council and laid out federal goals for the
streamlining of information technology procurement and implementation.

Executive Order 13011, signed by President Clinton, was linked to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and the Information Technology
Management Reform Act of 1996.

An Office of Management and Budget spokeswoman said the key provisions
of the order had been codified in the Electronic Government Act of 2002.
Some observers of the federal procurement community, however, said they
suspect more may be at work.

"The Bush administration may just be cleaning up an executive order that
is overtaken by events," in that all of its provisions are now reflected
in other laws or in common practice, said consultant Paul Brubaker.

However, he added, "Getting rid of the EO could give the administration
some flexibility in the ability to eliminate the CIO Council and the
[Government Information Technology Services] Board, or at least come up
with another, perhaps more effective, governance structure."

The GITS Board in particular is a holdover from the days before the 1996
IT management law. It "is really a function that the law says OMB should
perform," Brubaker said.

Alan Chvotkin, senior vice president and counsel at the Professional
Services Council, said he was perplexed by Bush's action.

"Clearly some of those issues have been overtaken by events, but some of
it still has some viability," he said. "It doesn't make a lot of sense."


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