White House announces plan for review of all government IT projects

The White House plans "relentless oversight" of the entire federal information technology portfolio, which will include a bottom-up review of all projects, Vivek Kundra, federal chief information officer, said at a news briefing on Wednesday.

The Obama administration plans to crack down on IT projects that do not work and to focus on the execution of those that are performing as designed, Kundra said. He provided few specifics about the review but said the federal government will no longer "put good money after bad" in pursuing troubled projects such as the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System, which the department canceled earlier in February after investing 12 years and $1 billion.