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Legislative Conference EditionApril 2017Volume XLI Issue 9
FY18 Federal ITOutlook EditionMay 2017Volume XLII Issue 5
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”Algoriddim named “App Creator of the Year” at Microsoft Build 2017
Cover Story on Page 10
NATIONAL BDPA CO-FOUNDEREarl A. Pace, Jr.
NATIONAL PRESIDENTMichael A. Williams
NATIONAL BDPA VICE PRESIDENTPamela Matthews
NBDPA VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCEMonique Berry
NBDPA VICE PRESIDENTNORTH REGIONCurtis Jenkins
NBDPA VICE PRESIDENTSOUTH REGIONFelicia Jones Francis
NBDPA VICE PRESIDENTMIDWEST REGIONMichael Wulf
NBDPA VICE PRESIDENTWEST REGIONJohn Malonson III
BDPA EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (BETF)R. Wayne HicksExecutive Director
FOUNDING PUBLISHERMANAGING EDITORPerry Carter
PHOTOGRAPHERS/SOCIAL MEDIA Charlie Perkiins Lynn DuniganKyle CarterCatherine Williamson
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ITSMF 2nd Quarter 2017 Symposium & Management Academy Graduation05.18.17—05.20.17 | Atlanta, GA
ITSMF’s mission is to increase the level of African-American representation at senior-levels of IT through executive leadership development programs, networking initiatives, formal mentoring and strategic partnerships.
According to their Vision Statement, ITSMF intends to graduate 500 professionals by 2020 through a series of rich, developmental, and career-advancing programs, and do so by being a second family to its members and partners.
Technical professionals are encouraged to continue and accelerate their journey to the C-Suite while exploring timely and relevant topics critical to professional development. Throughout the year members and corporate partners gather at symposia, professional networking events, and conferences to build rewarding professional and personal relationships. Learn, share and network with other Technology executives in an atmosphere of trust, camaraderie and openness. bt
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CBC TECH 2020 African American Inclusion Plan — National BDPA
Overview
In May 2015, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) launched CBC TECH 2020 to bring together the best minds in the tech, non-profit, education and public sectors to chart a path forward to increase African American inclusion at all levels of the technology industry. The lack of African American representation in the technology industry means that many of our best and brightest – the problem solvers, critical thinkers, and those that challenge conventional thinking – are not included, and America’s global competitiveness suffers as a result. By adopting a CBC TECH African American Inclusion Plan, organizations are expressing their commitment to use their unique capabilities and networks to contribute to increasing diversity in the technology industry.
BDPA Mission
Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) is a global member technology organization that delivers programs and services for the professional well-being of stakeholders. Founded in 1975, BDPA is a non-profit organization of professionals working in or having an interest in the Computer Science and Information Technology fields. BDPA has a diverse representation of information technology professionals. Included amongst the organization’s members are programmers, analysts, engineers, managers, instructors, entrepreneurs, and students, to name a few. BDPA Motto: “Advancing Careers from the Classroom to the Boardroom.”
BDPA Action Items Outcome: Increase the number of IT professionals ready to lead at all levels within industry. Importance: Diversity, especially African American, is needed across organizations to encourage, inspire and demonstrate that better decisions and business growth are achieved when there is equal representation at the table. Action Steps: Develop and implement a Senior Leadership/Executive Track curriculum at the 2016 BDPA Conference for senior level staffers aspiring to acquire skills that enable them to grow and be considered for Director and above roles; Identify opportunities to partner with ITSMF and others to create mentorships and training opportunities that assess and prepare our membership for senior leadership and/or executive level roles; and Assess and create a BDPA program for senior leadership and/or executive level members that enable them to enhance, strengthen and grow their skills in preparation for new, current or future leadership roles.
CBC TECH 2020 African American Inclusion Plan — NBDPA continued
Outcome: Grow the pipeline of future IT, Computer Science and S.T.E.M. talent through BDPA Connect (College Outreach) and Student Information Technology Education and Scholarship (S.I.T.E.S.) program. The S.I.T.E.S. program encompasses the High School Computer Competition Program, IT Showcase and Mobile Application Showcase. Importance: To cultivate the next generation of talent and enable sustained presence in industry. Action Steps: Launch BDPA Connect and our updated High School Computer Competition (HSCC) program across our 35+ chapters; Conduct quarterly webinars with College students to increase awareness of our new program, training/education, technology trends, internship and employment opportunities; and Expand the participation, quality and sponsor engagement of the Mobile Application Showcase.
Outcome: Establish and formalize partnerships with at least three (3) Silicon Valley technology firms to facilitate a pipeline of internships, as well as entry-level and experienced-hire talent. These partnerships may include the following: financial commitment, in-kind donations, recruitment opportunities, scholarships, internship, strategic and executive support. Importance: These partnerships become a catalyst and enabler of increased workforce diversity and membership growth, initially in the Bay Area (California) and nationally thereafter. Action Steps: Create targeted list of top 10 Silicon Valley tech companies; Generate and send exploratory “partnership” inquiries to top 10 list, soliciting feedback to determine willingness to partner with BDPA; and Create and execute MOUs based on partnership, mutual agreement and benefit. Partnerships:Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), CompTIA, Coalition of Hispanic, African and Native Americans for the Next Generation of Engineers and Scientists (CHANGES), DiversityComm, and Diversity In Action. Learn More: National BDPA — http://www.bdpa.org Government Affairs Host Chapter: BDPA-DC — http://www.bdpadc.orgCBC TECH 2020: — http://cbc.house.gov/tech/ #CBCTECH2020 #BDPA #BDPADC
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MUNICH, Germany–Algoriddim, creators of the world’s best selling DJ app with over 30 million downloads, won the 2017 Windows
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About djay
djay, downloaded by over 20 million users on the App Store, is the world’s best selling DJ app and winner of two Apple Design Awards. Available for desktop and mobile devices, it is used by millions of music enthusiasts and professional DJs and VJs around the globe. Seamlessly integrated with
gives users access to mix millions of songs instantly. djay also provides a rich hardware ecosystem from industry-leading partners enabling users to connect professional DJ gear to
the app.
About Algoriddim
Algoriddim, founded in 2006, creates world-class music and video
eliminate the boundaries between consumer and professional-level
bring their digital media to life. bt –Source and photos: Algoriddim
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—
ecosystems.
(upper photo), The World Series of Entrepreneurship™
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the United States and Canada on several occasions. Nonetheless, regardless of what they have achieved
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students from Washington, D.C. (BDPA-DC) also
leader Ms. Indigo Emanuel (lower photo) introduced her team and launched their pitch to VCs and investors during the event.
Philadelphia, PA and the District of Columbia served as WSE2017 host
Incubator [In3] hosted one of the regional
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that a student currently pursuing an AA/AS degree at a junior college or
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CSPI Terms of Service and Appointment Grade• While in college, selectees enlist in the CG in pay grade E-3 with
members are discharged from their enlisted status and commissioned as
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About the 2018 Budget of the United States Government
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President’s budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year.
Other related and supporting budget publications are included, which may vary from year to year.
Analytical perspectives contain analyses that are designed to highlight specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of budget data that place the budget in perspective. This volume includes economic and accounting analyses; information on Federal receipts and collections; analyses of Federal spending; information on Federal borrowing and debt; baseline or current services estimates; and other technical presentations. The Analytical Perspectives volume also contains supplemental material with several detailed tables, including tables showing the budget by agency and account and by function, subfunction, and program, that also is available on the Internet and as a CD-ROM in the final printed document.
The Appendix contains detailed information on the various appropriations and funds that constitute the budget and is designed primarily for the use of the Appropriations Committees. The Appendix contains more detailed financial information on individual programs and appropriation accounts than any of the other budget documents. It includes for each agency: the proposed text of appropriations language; budget schedules for each account; legislative proposals; explanations of the work to be performed and the funds needed; and proposed general provisions applicable to the appropriations of entire agencies or group of agencies. Information is also provided on certain activities whose transactions are not part of the budget totals.
FY18 Federal IT analytical perspective and budget summary.
• Trends in Federal IT Spending • IT Portfolio Summary • Number of Investments by Percentage of IT Spending, 2018 • CIO Risk Ratings for Investments• IT Spending by Category • Digital Projects in Production to Which Digital Experts have Contributed
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Analytical PerspectivesBUDGET OF THE U. S. GOVERNMENT
Fiscal Year 2018
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Every day, millions of people interact with the Federal Government. Americans expect and deserve these experi-ences to be simple, fast, and helpful. The President proposes to spend nearly $95.7 billion for Information Technology to help make this expectation a reality. With this amount, Departments and agencies will continue ongoing work to significantly accelerate development and implementation of modern digital services and technology throughout the Federal Government.
FEDERAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TODAY
Federal Spending on IT
As shown in Table 16-1, the Federal Government Budget for IT is estimated to be $95.7 billion in FY 2018, an increase
of 1.7 percent from FY 2017.1 This figure is based on data collected on 4,087 civilian IT investments at major Federal agencies through the Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process. Excluded from this total dollar figure are small and independent agencies, national security sys-tems, and all classified spending. The Department of Defense accounts for 44.4 percent of Federal IT spending.
There is significant variation in spending on IT among Executive branch Departments and agencies, as shown in Table 16-2, which displays IT spending by agency. The Department of Health and Human Services is the largest civilian agency by IT spending, while the bottom sixteen agencies only spend 10.7 percent.
IT Investments Overview
The FY 2018 President’s Budget includes funding for 4,087 IT investments.2 These investments support four main functions: mission delivery; administrative services and support systems; IT infrastructure, IT security, and IT management; and grants and other transferred fund-ing to non-Federal organizations for IT (see Chart 16-2). As Chart 16-3 shows, IT investments can vary widely in size and scope. As a result, the largest 100 IT investments account for 57 percent of Federal IT spending. 3
1 Based on agencies represented on the IT Dashboard, located at http://itdashboard.gov.
2 This figure excludes the Department of Defense.3 This does not include the Department of State, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Department of Commerce, and the Department of Defense.
Table 16–1. FEDERAL IT SPENDING(In millions of dollars)
2016 2017 2018
Department of Defense .............................................. 38,061 40,844 42,521Non-Defense .............................................................. 52,219 53,250 53,168
Total ........................................................................ 90,280 94,094 95,688 Note: Defense IT spending includes estimates for IT investments for which details
are classified and not reflected on the IT Dashboard. All spending estimates reflect data available as of May 8, 2017.
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Chart 16-1. Trends in Federal IT SpendingBillions of dollars
CAGR* 2001- 2009 7.1%CAGR* 2009- 2017 2.4%
*Compound Annual Growth Rate. Source: Total IT spending for agencies reporting to the IT Dashboard. Department
of Defense has provided estimates for classified IT investments not shown on the IT Dashboard. Chart reflects data available as of May 9, 2017.
Of the 4,087 IT investments within civilian agencies,758 are major IT investments. IT investments are de-termined to be major if the associated investment has
significant program or policy implications; has high executive visibility; has high development, operating, or maintenance costs; or requires special management attention because of its importance to the mission or function of the agency. Agencies are required to submit Business Cases for all major IT investments, which pro-vide additional transparency into the cost, schedule, and performance data related to its spending.
OMB requires that agency Chief Information Officers (CIOs) provide risk ratings for all major IT investments on the public IT Dashboard website on a continuous ba-sis and assess how risks for major development efforts are being addressed and mitigated. The Agency CIO rates each investment based on his or her best judgment, using a set of pre-established criteria. As a rule, the evaluation should reflect the CIO’s assessment of the investment’s ability to accomplish its goals. Chart 16-4 displays the latest CIO risk ratings for all major IT investments government-wide.
The IT Dashboard shows slight decreases in the gener-al health of IT investments across government, as denoted by the increased proportion of CIO-rated “Green” invest-ments on the IT Dashboard, which comprised 63 percent of all rated investments in March 2017 compared to 69 percent in 2012 (assessments based on total life cycle of investments).
Legacy IT Spending
Federal IT spending is categorized as either Operations & Maintenance (O&M) or Development, Modernization, and Enhancement (DME). Of the $48.5 billion reported to the IT Dashboard, 78.5 percent ($38.1 billion) is O&M spending. 4 Agencies are required to further break down the proportion of O&M spending not dedicated to provi-sioned services, such as cloud computing, as provisioned
4 This does not include the Department of State, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Commerce, and the Department of Defense.
Table 16–2. FY 2018 IT SPENDING BY AGENCY(In Millions of dollars)
Agency 2018Percent of
Total
Department of Defense* .................................................................. 42,521 44.4%Department of Health and Human Services .................................... 13,833 14.5%Department of Homeland Security .................................................. 6,833 7.1%Department of the Treasury ............................................................. 4,259 4.5%Department of Veterans Affairs ........................................................ 4,151 4.3%Department of Transportation .......................................................... 3,425 3.6%Department of Agriculture ............................................................... 2,958 3.1%Department of Justice ..................................................................... 2,852 3.0%Department of Commerce ............................................................... 2,560 2.7%Department of Energy ..................................................................... 2,023 2.1%Department of State ........................................................................ 1,864 1.9%Social Security Administration ......................................................... 1,651 1.7%National Aeronautics and Space Administration ............................. 1,549 1.6%Department of the Interior ............................................................... 1,185 1.2%Department of Education ................................................................. 745 0.8%Department of Labor ....................................................................... 703 0.7%General Services Administration ..................................................... 691 0.7%U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ......................................................... 451 0.5%Department of Housing and Urban Development ............................ 351 0.4%Environmental Protection Agency ................................................... 328 0.3%Nuclear Regulatory Commission ..................................................... 159 0.2%United States Agency for International Development ...................... 141 0.1%Office of Personnel Management .................................................... 141 0.1%National Science Foundation ........................................................... 115 0.1%National Archives and Records Administration ................................ 101 0.1%Small Business Administration ........................................................ 100 0.1%
Total ................................................................................................ 95,688.00 100.0%*Represents the total (unclassified and classified) topline estimates as of May 8, 2017.
Chart 16-2. IT Portfolio Summary
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Mission DeliveryAdministrative Services and Support Systems IT Infrastructure, IT Security, and IT ManagementGrants and Other Transferred Funding
Note: The following agencies submitted only topline estimates to OMB and were excluded from this analysis: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of State, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
services are encouraged by OMB policies. This area of spending is often referred to as “legacy” spending, given that it is dedicated to maintaining agencies’ existing physical IT investments. From FY 2015 through FY 2018, government-wide legacy spending as a percentage of total IT spending rose slightly from 68 percent to 70.3 percent. Aging legacy systems may pose efficiency and mission risk issues, such as ever-rising costs to maintain and an inability to meet current or expected mission require-ments. Legacy systems may also operate with known security vulnerabilities that are either technically diffi-cult or prohibitively expensive to address and thus may hinder agencies’ ability to comply with critical statutory and policy cybersecurity requirements.
Chart 16-5 displays the percent of the government-wide IT funding going toward new capabilities (referred
to as non-provisioned Development, Modernization and Enhancement or DME), O&M, and provisioned services.
MODERNIZING GOVERNMENT TECHNOLGOY
The Administration will work to modernize and im-prove government operations and service delivery by building modern citizen-facing digital services, buying more like a business, improving cybersecurity, investing in improved data analytics, and generating greater cost efficiencies. Modernization, in this sense, is not simply replacing individual outdated IT systems with newer ones; rather, it is a holistic approach to Federal IT that fundamentally transforms how agencies accomplish their missions. This approach entails reengineering underlying business processes and leveraging modern IT solutions,
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Note: The following agencies submitted only topline estimates to OMB and were excluded from this analysis: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of State, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Chart 16-4. CIO Risk Ratings for Investments
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such as cloud and shared services that drive efficiency and scale to address common business challenges across the Federal Government.
Modern Citizen-Facing Services
Americans expect and deserve their interactions with the Federal Government to be simple, fast, and helpful. The FY 2018 President’s Budget provides funding for Federal civilian agencies to spend on IT focused primarily on providing services to the American public, including systems that will ensure veterans can easily access the benefits and services they have earned, students can re-ceive financial aid, and small business owners can access affordable financing to start or expand their businesses.
The Administration will leverage the country’s best private sector ideas, services, and vendors to deliver these projects efficiently and effectively. In addition, the Administration will accelerate efforts to recruit some of the country’s top technical talent to modernize key servic-es via programs such as the U.S. Digital Service (USDS).
Buying as a Business
The Federal Government is the world’s largest buyer, yet does not adequately leverage its buying power or price information. Significant contract duplication means that agencies award multiple contracts for similar goods and services, and experience significant price variance for the exact same item. At the same time, acquisition processes remain slow and complicated, reflecting strategies that were designed more than a half-century ago for a paper-based world and fail to leverage modern private sector practices.
In FY 2018, the Administration will drive adoption of Category Management practices, which enable Federal agencies to buy targeted categories of products and ser-vices as a single enterprise using Best in Class solutions. Close to 70 percent of FY 2016 spending for laptop and desktop computers utilized these solutions, which re-
duced the number of standalone contracts by 5 percent. In addition, 47 percent of spending in this area went to small businesses, higher than the government-wide goal of 23 percent. In FY 2018, the Administration will con-tinue to drive spending through approved vehicles, reduce the number of contracts, and meet small business goals.
Additional opportunities exist to modernize IT and human capital used in shared administrative processes. The Federal Government can modernize and share IT and services for common administrative functions by: (1) adopting government-wide standards; (2) using thestandards to reduce contract duplication for IT and pro-fessional services; and (3) replacing legacy systems withmodern solutions and services.
Implementation of these strategies has the potential to drive numerous benefits, including generating cost savings, increasing the Federal Government’s ability to rapidly deploy best-in-class industry solutions, and en-hancing cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
Strengthening the cybersecurity of Federal networks, systems, and data is one of the most important challenges we face as a nation. For the first time, this Budget includes discrete cyber program investments that align budget resources with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. This will enable the alignment of budget, risk, and performance data in a consistent way across all Federal agencies.
Cybersecurity Risk and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework
The FY 2018 President’s Budget recognizes the in-creasing interconnectedness of Federal information and information systems and provides resources for agency heads to manage the cybersecurity risk across their en-terprise to ensure these risks do not impact the Federal Government as a whole. In particular, agency heads are required to manage risk commensurate with the magni-
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Chart 16-5. IT Spending by Category
Note: The following agencies submitted only topline estimates to OMB and were excluded from this analysis: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of State, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
tude of the harm that would result from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or de-struction of information or information systems.
An effective enterprise risk management program promotes a common language to recognize and describe potential risks that can impact the agencies’ missions and services to the public, including cybersecurity risk. The Federal Government leverages the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which provides a standard for managing and reducing cybersecurity risks, and organizes capabilities around the five function areas: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.
Accordingly, OMB and DHS continue to work with CIOs and Inspectors General (IG) across the Federal Government to align Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) metrics to the Framework. OMB also worked with agencies to align the FY 2018 Information Technology Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) Guidance with the Framework to provide agencies with a tool to budget for cybersecurity capabili-ties that effectively manage risk. Comprehensive adoption of the NIST Framework will provide agencies with a com-mon view and understanding of cybersecurity risk with other agencies, suppliers and vendors, and broader indus-try. This shared language around cybersecurity risk can lead to more sharing of best practices, common language for requirements and capabilities, and more joint efforts between public and private sectors to improve cybersecu-rity risk.
Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM)
Additionally, the FY 2018 President’s Budget continues to invest in the CDM Program. This program, managed by DHS and implemented across Federal agencies, is intended to create a common baseline of cybersecurity ca-pability and protection across the Federal Government. The program provides Federal Departments and agencies with CDM-certified capabilities and tools that identify and prioritize cybersecurity risks on an ongoing basis and enable cybersecurity personnel to mitigate the most sig-nificant problems first. CDM tools also allow departments
and agencies to better manage their IT assets, helping to reduce the risk to agencies’ perimeters while providing near real-time awareness of agency networks and envi-ronments that can be aggregated into one enterprise-level dashboard.
Improving Data Analytics and IT Portfolio Management
Good decision-making requires useful data. Consistent, mission-oriented metrics create meaningful data for agencies to evaluate and enhance their performance. On the other hand, inconsistent metrics, unclear definitions, or metrics that do not align to agencies’ missions create a compliance culture that ultimately inhibits performance. Currently, many reporting requirements are viewed as mere compliance exercises that are not consistently used to improve IT management and oversight. Thus, in FY 2018, the Administration will drive transformation of the Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process. This effort will increase the strategic value of IT and em-power CIOs to better support agency missions through more effective IT management. The CPIC process is being redesigned as a strategic tool for agencies to implement the requirements set forth in the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA).
To better utilize Federal IT spending data, the Federal Government must integrate data collection efforts, stan-dardize reporting data, and find new opportunities to simplify, automate, and consolidate reporting. Such ef-forts can build on existing Federal initiatives such as the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–101), which improves government-wide financial reporting and data standards. Moreover, the Federal adoption of industry standards for tracking IT spending will improve the consistency, granularity, and quality of Federal IT spending information and thus drive more meaningful analysis, benchmarking, and planning.
Improving data quality and usability is the first step towards a more data-driven, responsive, and accountable Government.
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Facilitating Modernization Efforts
Federal agencies have a poor track record of ap-propriately planning and budgeting for continuous modernization of their legacy IT systems. Further, tran-sition to provisioned services, such as cloud and shared services, remains slow. The lack of proactive adoption of cloud and shared services has resulted in agencies accu-mulating billions of dollars in technical debt. To improve the traditional budget process, the FY 2018 President’s Budget requires agencies to identify and budget for the modernization of specific high-risk legacy IT systems, with a particular focus on transitioning these systems to cloud and shared services.
Technology Modernization Fund
Beyond improvements to the traditional budget pro-cess, the FY 2018 President’s Budget proposes placing a portion of the Federal Government’s $95.7 billion in an-nual IT spending into a central Technology Modernization Fund designed to improve the management and oversight of Federal IT modernization projects. The Technology Modernization Fund will be dedicated to transitioning Federal agencies from IT infrastructure, systems, and services that are not cost-effective or secure to more ef-ficient and secure technologies.
The Technology Modernization Fund will improve the success of the Federal Government’s efforts to modernize its IT portfolio in multiple ways:
• First, an independent board of experts will evalu-ate agency proposals to ensure the Federal Govern-ment’s most inefficient, ineffective, and highest-risksystems are targeted for modernization.
• Second, a repayment requirement will ensure theTechnology Modernization Fund is self-sustainingand can continue to support modernization projectswell beyond the initial infusion of capital.
• Third, experts in IT acquisition and developmentwill provide integrated modernization expertise to
agencies in implementing their modernization plans. Every project will benefit from centralized oversight and expertise, increasing the probability of success.
• Fourth, funding for all projects will be tied to real-world delivery of products. This approach ensuresthat agencies employ agile development techniquesand prevents sunk costs.
Finally, by establishing a central fund that agen-cies must apply to and compete for, the Technology Modernization Fund will provide strong incentives for agencies to develop comprehensive, high quality modern-ization plans.
Cloud Adoption/Email Migration
Email and collaboration tools are essential to the day-to-day operations of Federal agencies; yet too few Federal agencies have basic collaboration tools such as real-time document sharing or video conferencing. In many cases, the tools being used by agencies are more than a decade old and run on legacy systems with growing maintenance costs. This situation is a hidden tax on productivity: it wastes time, creates missed opportunities, and slows co-ordination and creativity.
The majority of agencies who moved to cloud-based collaboration solutions experienced cost savings after just a few years of investment. These cost savings ranged from $500,000 per year for smaller agencies to $10 mil-lion per year for a larger agency such as the Department of Justice. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was able to migrate to cloud-based email within six months and decommis-sion its legacy servers over the next two years to achieve a total of $3.1 million dollars of cost savings per year.
Migrating the remaining Federal agencies from agency owned-and-operated email systems to cloud-based email will result in significant cost savings, improved security, and greater productivity.
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