Connolly: Lack of Trump appointees could stall IT modernization

Federal Times: For all of the bipartisan goodwill that modernizing the government’s information technology has garnered, there’s one thing that Gerry Connolly thinks can bring it to a halt: the executive branch.

Speaking at the MeriTalk’s Cloud for Next-Gen Government conference on June 7, Rep. Connolly, D-Va., said that despite the legislative momentum behind the Modernizing Government Technology Act and White House support through recent executive orders, the movement to upgrade federal IT could still stall if the Trump administration doesn’t start appointing personnel to back it.

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