The White House and federal agencies have taken steps to plan and coordinate CNCI activities by establishing several interagency working groups.
Recommendation: To address challenges that CNCI faces in achieving its objectives related to securing federal information systems, the Director of OMB should better define roles and responsibilities of all key CNCI participants, such as the National Cyber Security Center, to ensure that essential governmentwide cybersecurity activities are fully coordinated.
Recommendation: To address challenges that CNCI faces in achieving its objectives related to securing federal information systems, the Director of OMB should establish measures to determine the effectiveness of CNCI projects in making federal information systems more secure and track progress against those measures.
Recommendation: To address challenges that CNCI faces in achieving its objectives related to securing federal information systems, the Director of OMB should establish an appropriate level of transparency about CNCI by clarifying the rationale for classifying information, ensuring that as much information is made public as is appropriate, and providing justification for withholding information from the public.
Recommendation: To address challenges that CNCI faces in achieving its objectives related to securing federal information systems, the Director of OMB should reach agreement on the scope of CNCI's education projects to ensure that an adequate cadre of skilled personnel is developed to protect federal information systems.
Recommendation: To address strategic challenges in areas that are not the subject of existing projects within CNCI but remain key to achieving the initiative's overall goal of securing federal information systems, the Director of OMB should establish a coordinated approach for the federal government in conducting international outreach to address cybersecurity issues strategically.
In addition, to the development of the 2nd Campus of
CNCI, Kolkata, the approved 12th Five Year Plan provides for establishing one new National Cancer Centre location of which has been decided at Jhajjar, Haryana.
