Senate offers Homeland Security more IT modernization dollars in FY 2019

Lawmakers have praised DHS's efforts to date to modernize its IT infrastructure. The agency also has a new chief information officer leading the effort.

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Senate appropriators are opening up their collective wallets to give the Homeland Security Department more money for IT modernization. And the extra $60 million for fiscal 2019 may be coming at the perfect time for DHS’s new chief information officer. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller spoke with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about DHS’s plans for the cloud and IT modernization.

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