GSA Official: Federal IT Modernization Will Happen With or Without Legislation

Nextgov: Some federal IT is old—a few systems in government could push for senior citizen status if they were people—and agencies are going to have to modernize whether Congress passes meaningful legislation in the coming months, according to one of General Services Administration’s top tech officials.

Dave Shive, acting commissioner of GSA’s Technology Transformation Service, said the idea behind the proposed $3.1 billion IT Modernization Fund is “sound and solid,” but offered that even if Congress does nothing, agencies must respond to a crisis U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott has labeled worse than Y2K.

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