Federal Government Information Technology

White House releases final IT Modernization Report

Federal Times: The White House’s American Technology Council Wednesday released its final report to the president on federal IT modernization, which focused on network modernization and the increased use of shared services as the vehicles for achieving a more modern federal IT landscape.

“Agencies have attempted to modernize their systems but have been stymied by a variety of factors, including resource prioritization, ability to procure services quickly, and technical issues,” the report said. Recommendations to address the aforementioned issues are grouped into two categories of effort: the modernization and consolidation of networks and the use of shared services to enable future network architectures.”

The report reiterated the advice of industry experts, who have long said that policies set up to defend the network perimeter rather than the data on the network are outdated and inefficient.

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