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Matt Shabat, the U.S. strategy manager for Glasswall Solutions, makes the case for how using a risk management framework can lead to real savings that agencies can use to move off legacy systems.

The Trump administration’s 2020 budget proposal for government spending gives a big boost to the Pentagon and other security-related agencies, while calling for a cut of more than $2.7 trillion in federal civilian spending over the next ten years.

The Trump administration is asking for 2020 funding for IT modernization at both for governmentwide and specific agency needs.

In the omnibus spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law last week, CIOs at the Agriculture and State departments received specific empowerments provisions.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Representative Mark Takano (D-Calif.) is launching an official investigation into the influence of three members of President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago golf club, on recent personnel and policy decisions at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Reps. Will Hurd and Robin Kelly want a more coordinated effort around artificial intelligence to improve how agencies recruit and train cyber workers.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie appointed a new permanent director for the DC medical center.

Alan Thomas, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said the Technology Modernization Fund and the EIS contract are helping to push agencies toward better IT services.

In today’s Federal Newscast, federal technology officials continue to wait to see if the Technology Modernization Fund will receive a second year of funding.

Almost a year into its efforts to transform the way the Agriculture Department does business by standing up five Centers of Excellence (CoEs), the General Services Administration says it’s gearing up to start the process up all over again at a second agency.