Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott has pushed for legislation on a modernization fund worth a potential $12 billion over the next decade that agencies could use to update current information technology systems, Nextgov reported Wednesday.
Frank Konkel writes almost 75 percent of the $90 billion government IT budget goes to legacy systems and little money goes to development and modernization efforts.
Scott said an initial $3.1 billion modernization fund can help accelerate progress and address more than $3 billion in government software services that vendors will no longer support within three years, as Executive Gov reported Thursday.
“The bigger risk is not doing anything,†Scott said at a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to the Nextgov report.
