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Supports FY2022 total General Fund appropriations of $1.99 billion.
Supports base spending with base funding.
Fully funds state retirement and debt obligations.
Maintains all statutory reserve levels.
As part of the Governor’s ongoing pandemic response, he proposes using $210 million in one-time funding for economic recovery through investments in housing, infrastructure, broadband buildout, environmental stewardship, carbon reducing initiatives, and government modernization, among others.
As part of the one-time investments, makes a down payment on state government modernization by creating a Technology Modernization Fund to propel costly, and much needed, IT upgrades.
Economic Recovery and Downtown and Village Center Revitalization:
By Adam Mazmanian
NOTE: This story first appeared on FCW.com.
Leading Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform are pushing $9 billion in technology refresh money as part of the larger $1.9 trillion pandemic relief and recovery package being pushed by the Biden administration.
In a Jan. 27 letter led by Oversight Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), lawmakers stressed the importance of expanding the Technology Modernization Fund – a pot of no-year money that agencies can tap for projects to improve service delivery, to move systems to the cloud and other efforts to cast off expensive and creaky legacy systems.
By Adam Mazmanian
Leading Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform are pushing $9 billion in technology refresh money as part of the larger $1.9 trillion pandemic relief and recovery package being pushed by the Biden administration.
In a Jan. 27 letter led by Oversight Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), lawmakers stressed the importance of expanding the Technology Modernization Fund – a pot of no-year money that agencies can tap for projects to improve service delivery, to move systems to the cloud and other efforts to cast off expensive and creaky legacy systems.
Quick Hits The
National Institute of Standards and Technology s Special Publication 800-53 is the bible of security and privacy controls for federal IT systems, so revisions are a big deal. Starting this summer, however, those updates will start coming far more frequently.
NIST Fellow
Ron Ross said at FCW s Jan. 27 Cloud Security Workshop that a web-based, automated content control development and delivery system is in the works, and will debut mid-year. We re basically not going to wait five or six years to update 800-53, he said. We re going to have an online development process where you can propose new controls.and when the controls have gone through enough of that public review and vetting, we will then pull the trigger and put that control into the catalog.
DeRusha, a cybersecurity official on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and the former cybersecurity chief for the state of Michigan, has been appointed federal chief information security officer.