Sec. 4. Enterprise Licensing Positioning at Agencies
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The Chief Information Officer of each agency, in consultation with the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Procurement Officer of the agency, or the equivalent officials of the agency, shall use the information developed pursuant to the comprehensive assessment of the agency under section 3(a) to develop a plan for the agency to— consolidate software licenses of the agency; and to the greatest extent practicable, in order to improve the performance of, or reduce unnecessary costs to, the agency, adopt enterprise license agreements across the agency.
The plan of an agency shall— include a detailed strategy for— the remediation of any software asset management deficiencies found during the comprehensive assessment of the agency; the ongoing maintenance of software asset management upon the completion of the remediation; and maximizing the effectiveness of software deployed by the agency, including, to the extent practicable, leveraging technologies that— provide in-depth analysis of user behaviors and collect user feedback; measure actual software usage via analytics that can identify inefficiencies to assist in rationalizing software spending; allow for segmentation of the user base; and support effective governance and compliance in the use of software; identify not fewer than 5 categories of software the agency will prioritize for conversion to enterprise licenses as the software entitlements, contracts, and other agreements or arrangements for those categories come up for renewal or renegotiation; provide an estimate of the costs to move to enterprise, open-source, or other licenses that do not restrict the use of software by the agency, and any projected cost savings or efficiency measures; identify potential mitigations to minimize software license restrictions on how such software can be deployed or accessed, either on desktop or server hardware or through a cloud service provider; include any estimates for additional resources, services, or support the agency may need to execute the enterprise licensing position plan; and include any additional information, data, or analysis determined necessary by the Chief Information Officer, or other equivalent official, of the agency.
The Chief Information Officer, or other equivalent official, of an agency may request support from the Director and the Administrator for any analysis or developmental needs to create the plan of the agency. Not later than 120 days after the date on which the Chief Information Officer, or other equivalent official, of an agency submits the comprehensive assessment pursuant to section 3(c), the head of the agency shall submit to the Director, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate , and the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives the plan of the agency.