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As of November 2019, GAO reported that federal agencies had fully implemented 61% of the 1,320 IT management-related recommendations that GAO has made to them since FY2010. Likewise, agencies had implemented 76% of the 3,323 security-related recommendations that GAO has made since FY2010.\nThe House Committee on Oversight and Reform has held two hearings on FITARA in the 116th Congress (June 26, 2019, and December 11, 2019). 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