Six Years After Its Passage

<p>Over the past decade a considerable amount of attention has been given to federal legislation in making the federal government operate more efficiently and effectively by concentrating on Information Resource Management and Information Technology. In 1996 the Clinger-Cohen Act was passed creating the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) in each agency of the Federal Government. This study assesses the impacts of the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) on the USAF with an emphasis on the Federal CIO Council Core Competencies. Given that this law and supporting policies have been in place for nearly six years it would be valuable to assess USAF compliance with CCA as well as its impact on the USAF. It is intended that the information gathered may help the USAF to be a better steward of the nations critical information and financial resources and to better provide critical information capabilities to the warfighter thus ensuring information superiority over our nations adversaries. Findings of this survey provide evidence that the USAF is in compliance with the CCA and identifies impacts of the CCA on the USAF. Among these impacts are: IRM responsiveness has contributed to mission accomplishment Strategic planning includes information as well as IT technology has improved efficiency baseline performance measures are more realistic alignment of organizational structure improves critical services and standardization of policy and processes optimizes IT resources.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>