Issa blasts federal IT management, releases business systems surveys

A Congressionally-requested survey of how agencies manage their business and accounting information technology systems reveals too much work is still being done manually and not enough data is being made public, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., charged Tuesday.

Issa released agency responses to the survey late Tuesday, along with a statement in which the Oversight Committee's majority staffers said agencies were relying on "a disparate web" of "inherently problematic" manual processes to transfer data between different IT systems and that they aren't making significant efforts to automate processes...