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Kirit Amin, the outgoing CIO of the International Trade Commission, said OMB and GSA should provide an easier way for small agencies to move off legacy systems.
USDA will be the first agency to work with GSA and the Office of American Innovation to get rid of legacy systems.
Kirit Amin joins the ranks of CIOs leaving government after three years at the International Trade Commission.
FEMA’s David Grant announced he’s retiring in January after 34 years of federal service, while Kevin Gates is leaving the House Armed Services Committee.
DHS has implemented a cyber maturity model and DoD is using a security scorecard to identify strengths and weaknesses in networks and systems.
Marines still aspire to let troops bring their own devices to work, but the corps' top IT official says its current mobility strategy is "on the wrong trajectory."
Johnson Joy, the chief information officer at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said he wants to move the agency to the cloud, update its code, and replace desktops with laptops, among other things.
The Office of Personnel Management authorized a special Schedule A hiring authority to help agencies bring on specific professionals for their IT modernization and "smarter IT delivery initiative" projects. The authority expires Sept. 30, 2018.
State Department chief information officer Frontis Wiggins is retiring after more than 30 years of service.
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David Bray, who left the FCC in October and now is the executive director of the People-Centered Internet Coalition, moved the agency to the cloud to cut spending on legacy IT systems by 35 percent.
The Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act would give agencies working capital funds to use for moving off legacy systems.
House Science, Space and Technology Committee members learned that NASA, DoD do not have Kaspersky products on their networks.
The Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act made it through the defense authorization bill conference intact.
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