Pursuit's Take
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) staff make limited use of the OIGs’ readiness review reports, and Treasury officials do not use them to monitor agencies’ implementation of the DATA Act. Instead, OMB staff and Treasury officials stated that they monitor agency progress through other means, such as meetings with senior accountable officials and agency self-reporting. However, the OIG readiness reviews represent an important independent resource that could be used to validate agencies’ self-reported progress, identify government- wide systemic issues, and identify and communicate good practices. By not making greater use of the OIG readiness review results, OMB and Treasury may be missing additional opportunities to identify implementation issues and review information that could help inform their monitoring of agencies’ implementation of the DATA Act requirements.