4 major takeaways from the IRS’s latest IT modernization strategy

Federal News Network: IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig, in back-to-back hearings last week, gave lawmakers a sneak peek of the agency’s latest effort to overhaul its legacy IT and modernize the programming language it runs on.

But on Thursday, the agency released the full details of its six-year Integrated Modernization Business Plan, which will cost up to $2.7 billion. For FY 2020, the IRS has requested $290 million for IT modernization.

The plan looks to deliver on many of the goals outlined in the agency’s strategic plan released last year, and prior to that, the agency had spent several years talking about a “Future State” strategy.

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