Lawmaker Wants Hard Details on Agencies’ Plans to Upgrade Legacy IT

NextGov: While legacy IT issues have plagued federal agencies for years, the current COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated those issues and at least one lawmaker wants to know what agencies are doing about it.

On Wednesday, Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., sent letters to 10 major federal agencies—including the departments of Treasury, Homeland Security, Defense, Interior, Education, Health and Human Services, Transportation, the Office of Personnel Management, the Small Business Administration and the Social Security Administration—asking what each is doing to modernize aging IT systems in time for the next crisis.

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