President's budget request to include IT modernization fund, Rep. Hurd says

Fedscoop: President Donald Trump’s budget request is going to bring back a proposal for a centralized IT modernization fund housed in the Office of Management and Budget, Republican Rep. Will Hurd told FedScoop on Tuesday.

The main unknown, for now, is the price tag on Trump’s request for the fund, said Hurd, who is chairman of the Information Technology Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The fiscal 2017 budget request from President Barack Obama had called for a $3.1 billion centralized revolving fund to “address an estimated $12 billion worth of modernization projects over 10 years.”

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