Sec. 107. Chief Information Officer
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Section 703 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 343 ) is amended— in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following new sentence: In addition to the functions under section 3506(a)(2) of title 44, United States Code, the Chief Information Officer shall perform the functions set forth in this section and such other functions as may be assigned by the Secretary. ; by redesignating subsection
(b)as subsection (d); and by inserting after subsection
(a)the following new subsections: In addition to performing the functions under section 3506 of title 44, United States Code, the Chief Information Officer shall serve as the lead technical authority for information technology programs of the Department and Department components, and shall— advise and assist the Secretary, heads of the components of the Department, and other senior officers in carrying out the responsibilities of the Department for all activities relating to the budgets, programs, security, and operations of the information technology functions of the Department; to the extent delegated by the Secretary, exercise leadership and authority over Department information technology management and establish the information technology priorities, policies, processes, standards, guidelines, and procedures of the Department to ensure interoperability and standardization of information technology; maintain a consolidated inventory of the mission critical and mission essential information systems of the Department, and develop and maintain contingency plans for responding to a disruption in the operation of any of those information systems; maintain the security, visibility, reliability, integrity, and availability of data and information technology of the Department; establish and implement policies and procedures to effectively monitor and manage vulnerabilities in the supply chain for purchases of information technology, in consultation with the Chief Procurement Officer of the Department; review contracts and interagency agreements associated with major information technology investments and information technology investments that have had cost, schedule, or performance challenges in the past; assess the risk of all major information technology investments and publicly report the risk rating to the Office of Management and Budget; oversee the management of the Homeland Security Enterprise Architecture technology system and ensure that, before each acquisition decision event (as such term is defined in section 839), approved information technology acquisitions comply with any departmental information technology management requirements, security protocols, and the Homeland Security Enterprise Architecture, and in any case in which information technology acquisitions do not comply with the Department’s management directives, making recommendations to the Department’s Acquisition Review Board regarding such noncompliance; provide recommendations to the Acquisition Review Board regarding information technology programs, and developing information technology acquisition strategic guidance; and carry out any other responsibilities delegated by the Secretary consistent with an effective information system management function. In coordination with the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Information Officer shall develop an information technology strategic plan every five years and report to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate on the extent to which— the budget of the Department aligns with priorities specified in the information technology strategic plan; the information technology strategic plan informs the budget process of the Department; information technology priorities were or were not funded and the reasons for not funding all priorities in a given fiscal year; the Department has identified and addressed skills gaps needed to implement the information technology strategic plan; and unnecessary duplicate information technology within and across the components of the Department has been eliminated. . Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and every two years thereafter until 2024, the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with Department component chief information officers, shall— conduct a Department-wide inventory of all existing software licenses held by the Department, including utilized and unutilized licenses; assess the needs of the Department and the components of the Department for software licenses for the subsequent two fiscal years; examine how the Department can achieve the greatest possible economies of scale and cost savings in the procurement of software licenses; determine how the use of shared cloud-computing services will impact the needs for software licenses for the subsequent two fiscal years; establish plans and estimated costs for eliminating unutilized software licenses for the subsequent two fiscal years; and submit a copy of each inventory conducted under subparagraph
(A)to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. If the Chief Information Officer determines through the inventory conducted under paragraph
(1)that the number of software licenses held by the Department and the components of the Department exceed the needs of the Department, not later than 90 days after the date on which the inventory is completed, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish a plan for reducing the number of such software licenses to meet needs of the Department. Except as provided in subparagraph (B), upon completion of a plan under paragraph (2), no additional resources may be obligated for the procurement of new software licenses for the Department until such time as the need of the Department exceeds the number of used and unused licenses held by the Department. The Chief Information Officer may authorize the purchase of additional licenses and amend the number of needed licenses as necessary. Not later than fiscal year 2022, the Comptroller General of the United States shall review the extent to which the Chief Information Officer fulfilled all requirements established in this section and the amendment made by this section. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Information Officer shall complete the first information technology strategic plan required under subsection
(c)of section 701 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as added by subsection
(a)of this section.
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