Tony Scott calls IT workforce drain a 'creeping' crisis bigger than Y2K

Fedscoop: The White House’s final IT modernization report will soon be released following nearly 100 comments from industry stakeholders, but former U.S. CIO Tony Scott is most concerned about a pair of issues that didn’t receive much attention in the plan: talent and culture.

The American Technology Council and Office of American Innovation’s draft report did address a bevy of issues surrounding IT modernization, but the White House technology teams must also examine how the government will replace its retiring technology workforce, especially the expertise surrounding maintaining aging legacy systems, Scott said t the Consortium for IT Software Quality’s Cyber Resilience Summit, part of Washington DC CyberWeek.

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