The Obama White House is offering new guidelines on how agencies should go about modernizing legacy IT systems.
The draft policy, released Oct. 27, comes from federal CIO Tony Scott and , Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan. It is a distillation of the modernization policy Scott and others in the administration have been pushing since the rollout of President Barack Obama’s FY2017 budget, which included a $19 billion cybersecurity action plan and a $3.1 billion governmentwide revolving fund to support the estimated $12 billion in tech upgrades that agencies need over the next decade.
