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Gerry Connolly: “The new President recommended $10 billion, $9 billion of which would go to the Technology Modernization Fund precisely…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2021
The new President recommended $10 billion, $9 billion of which would go to the Technology Modernization Fund precisely to serve as sort of seed capital and the catalyst to retire those legacy systems, some of which are 40 and 50 years old and getting pretty creaky.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly discusses the need for funding to modernize outdated IT systems.

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