Federal Government Information Technology

Federal CIOs' 5 key steps to IT modernization

Fedscoop: There’s an urgent need to modernize federal agencies’ technology. At least two-thirds — and in some cases more — of the federal IT budget in recent years has gone toward the operations and maintenance of outdated legacy systems that are often older than some of the personnel in charge of their upkeep.

Consequently, agency mission efficiency and effectiveness are frequently hamstrung as the IT infrastructure of yesterday can’t meet the needs of the government of today. Furthermore, securing those old, interdependent, interconnected and often custom systems becomes increasingly difficult as threats grow in sophistication, but the comparable latest cyber defenses don’t always mesh with the antiquated IT.

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