{
  "node_id": "us-clinger-cohen-act-40-usc-11101",
  "title": "Clinger-Cohen Act 1996 - 40 USC 11101 Information Technology Management Reform",
  "domain": "Cybersecurity",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-05-28",
  "bluf": "Section 11101 and following of title 40 of the United States Code codify the Clinger-Cohen Act (Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996, Public Law 104-106 Divisions D and E), the principal federal statute governing acquisition and management of information technology by executive agencies. The Act repealed the Brooks Act centralised IT procurement framework, established the Chief Information Officer role in every covered federal agency (originally section 11315), assigned the Office of Management and Budget responsibility for agency IT investment oversight, required each agency to design an IT capital planning and investment control process linked to performance management, and instituted enterprise architecture as a planning discipline for federal IT. Section 11103 prescribes the application of the Act to executive agencies (excluding national security systems for certain provisions). Section 11315 (since renumbered as relevant) defines the CIO role, including responsibility for advising the head of the agency on IT investment, performance, security, and human capital. The Act underpins every subsequent federal IT-management statute including the E-Government Act of 2002, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act 2014, FITARA 2014, and the Modernizing Government Technology Act 2017. AI procurement, federal cloud authorisation, and federal cybersecurity investment decisions all flow through the Clinger-Cohen capital-planning and investment-control framework.",
  "paywall": {
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  },
  "crosswalks": {
    "_available_keys": [
      "nist_framework",
      "iso_standard",
      "ai_overlay_2026",
      "industry_mapping",
      "mitre_attack_mapping"
    ],
    "_note": "Full crosswalk values included in vault response"
  },
  "dependencies": [
    "us-paperwork-reduction-act-44-usc-ch35"
  ],
  "primary_citations_count": 8
}