While President Donald Trump’s budget proposal includes a $228 million investment for a general IT modernization fund, the head of the agency overseeing the fund sees the initial investment as more of a proof of concept than a panacea.
At a May 24 House Appropriations Committee hearing, General Services Administration acting Administrator Tim Horne testified that the initial money is “not enough” to remedy all the government’s IT problems, but that the “$228 million is a way to start … chipping away” at them.
The initial investment, Horne said, “could prove the concept is the right idea to have this board of technology experts chaired by the federal CIO making decisions about return on IT investments.”
