Can the MGT Act unshackle agency CIOs from legacy systems?

Federal Times: Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, took to the stage of the Adobe Digital Government Symposium on a mission to finally deliver the agencies a way to upgrade their information technology.

Hours after his Modernizing Government Technology Act was passed out of a House Oversight Committee mark-up, Hurd was on the stump as a keynote speaker at the May 2 conference to tout the bill as a way to solve the federal government’s IT problem.

“I always say that IT procurement is not a sexy topic. “Nor would anybody have a rally for IT procurement,” he said.

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