The federal government spends 80% of its IT budget on operations and maintenance. Running aging legacy systems brings ever-rising costs and risks of mission failures. Additionally, there is a continued focus on transitioning high-risk legacy IT systems to cloud and shared services. While on the other end of things, modernization projects present their own challenges and risk. |  |
Effective modernization is key in responding to regulations. These responses are exemplified in the 2017 "Modernizing Government Technology Act" and the 2017 "Foundation of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act."
- Lay the foundation for successful modernization
- Increase trust, use, and value of agency data
- Minimize the cost of infrastructure maintenance
- Optimize migrated data streams to improve process efficiency and responsiveness to citizens
- Plan, scope, and manage costs of modernization initiatives to prevent budget overruns
