The Clinger-Cohen Act: 10 Years Later

Ten years ago, Congress passed the Information Technology Management Reform Act, later renamed for its co-sponsors, Rep. William Clinger, R-Pa., and Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine. The Clinger-Cohen Act fundamentally changed federal procurement of information technology, requiring that IT purchases be handled as capital investments and that chief information officers be appointed to lead the process of planning, acquiring and managing technology.

In this four-part series running over a month's time, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Wes Andrues, an IT policy consultant and CIO Certificate holder from the National Defense University, looks at the changes in the technology acquisition landscape in the years since the law was passed.

• Part One: The Five Percent Solution (7/11/06)
• Part Two: Measuring Efficiency (7/18/06)
• Part Three: Becoming Enterprise Architects (7/25/06)
• Part Four: The Age of Results (8/1/06)