IT modernization

Washington Democrat Derek Kilmer and Georgia Republican Tom Graves returned to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the latest developments.

CIOs began realizing their IT systems strategies needed to make significant technological leaps, possibly leaving COBOL behind.

Bill Vajda, Interior’s chief information officer, said IT modernization is letting the agency train its employees to be problem solvers and not focused on wires and pliers.

Agencies made the transformation during the pandemic emergency in a short amount of time and now they have to figure out how to continue this momentum.

The fourth quarter sprint to the finish line of the 2020 fiscal year starts in less than three weeks. So what can federal contractors expect?

Shifting the majority of the federal workforce to telework overnight forced agencies to improve capacity, and shift workloads, applications and data to the cloud on a massive scale in the name of continuity of operations.

This content is provided by Appian. Deloitte has helped many federal agencies move off their legacy systems and onto modern platforms. In doing so, Deloitte has been able to identify common use cases for IT modernization…

This program provides a progress report on IT modernization in government.

Organizations are considering ways to accelerate modernization—and moving away from custom development is becoming part of that strategy.

Agencies have to figure out how to take a pragmatic approach to modernizing these legacy systems, to closing these security gaps and dramatically reduce risk while improving services to citizens.