Pandemic speeds modernization across federal agencies -- Washington Technology
By Mark Rockwell NOTE: This story first appeared on FCW.com. The initial ordeal of adapting to the pandemic IT environment has evolved into a speedier and focused view of system modernization at federal agencies, according to some federal CIOs. That initial wave of setting up laptops and building remote work systems was stressful, but it may have advanced federal IT modernization efforts by years, according to Stuart McGuigan, CIO of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Information Resource Management. The pandemic, he said in remarks during a Dec. 10 ATARC IT modernization summit, has acce...