Federal Government Information Technology

As federal IT lags, Connolly calls out White House for lack of CIO leadership

Fedscoop: Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., knows one country strongly focused on infusing its infrastructure with new technology development to power economic interests on an international stage: China.

Speaking Thursday at the Digital Transformation Summit presented by Dell Technologies and produced by FedScoop, Connolly drew the comparison of the economic rival that just set a five-year national plan at its Communist Party Congress with the federal government, which is struggling to maintain its weathered and dated information technology infrastructure.

“They are making investments we’re not making, and it’s going to show over the years,” he said. “The return on those investments that could be decades out. Some of these are very long-term investments with long-term returns on them, and we’re making a big mistake by not doing it.”

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