{"id":11980,"date":"2018-05-24T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/24\/why-the-government-is-playing-technology-catch-up\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:24:07","slug":"why-the-government-is-playing-technology-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/it-networks\/2018\/05\/24\/why-the-government-is-playing-technology-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"These tech problems could hurt government for years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There used to be a time when the government was at the leading edge of technological innovation. But federal agencies have fallen so far behind that they will have to work aggressively just to catch up with basic private sector practices, according to federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe still have many things to do just to be current in the 21st century,\u201d Kent said at a May 24, 2018, IBM event. \u201cThere\u2019s no question that we need to move against those aggressively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Kent, agencies will have to pursue decades-long data and IT modernization plans so that government services meet the expectations citizens have cultivated from commercial tech experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe way that we\u2019re positioning that is through incubators,\u201d said Kent. \u201cAnd incubators to solve very specific problems so that we can have tactical answers to some of those guiding principles: protection of privacy; how do we leverage data; what\u2019s the hygiene; what are our shared models; what can we share; how can we accept that data; and what does that model look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLarge-scale transformation &#8230; takes a vision, and it takes multiple years. So the funding we have has to support that process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt Lira, special assistant to the president for innovation policy and initiatives, said that he expects the modernization of government IT and management to be a problem that could take 20 or more years, and that policies implemented across agencies will have to account for that length of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kent said that some agency representatives, speaking at a meeting with academia and business leaders, noted they had needed to fight years to simply share data between different parts of an agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administration intends to address problems such as those through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/it-networks\/2018\/03\/15\/it-earns-top-spot-in-upcoming-trump-management-agenda\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">President\u2019s Management Agenda<\/a> by emphasizing projects that break 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