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Secretary [Sonny] Purdue and I want to try to change that at USDA. We want to make sure that USDA is the most effective, efficient, customer-focused agency in all of the federal government,\u201d said Censky Oct. 16 at the ACT-IAC Imagine Nation ELC 2018 <br\/> conference in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the last year we\u2019ve put into motion a very aggressive plan to really try to transform how we do business and how we modernize our IT systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">USDA was originally chosen to be the lighthouse agency for the Centers of Excellence program, a collaboration between the White House Office of American Innovation and the General Services Administration to put weight and expertise behind agency modernization efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">USDA recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/acquisition\/gsa\/2018\/10\/01\/gsa-issues-second-phase-awards-for-centers-of-excellence\/\" target=_blank>entered into the second phase of the program<\/a>, which seeks to put in place solutions to problems identified in the first phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe anticipate that in this phase two process, that it is 12 to 18 months with most of the work being completed in the next 12 months,\u201d said Censky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat doesn\u2019t end, as you well know, the modernization effort, that is just the start. And I think that is one of the key benefits that we really see with having the Centers of Excellence embedded at USDA, is that we\u2019re able to sprint in these areas, develop the talent and the expertise, and then when the Centers of Excellence move on to work with other agencies, maybe your agency or department, we have that institutional knowledge to continue on with our effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">USDA was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/it-networks\/cloud\/2018\/06\/08\/whats-in-the-technology-modernization-boards-first-awards\/\" target=_blank>awarded $10 million from the Technology Modernization Fund\u2019s first round<\/a> of awards to work on its <a href=\"http:\/\/farmers.gov\/\" target=_blank>farmers.gov<\/a> customer experience portal, which Censky said is in the early stages and will continue to grow in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Censky chalked up USDA\u2019s modernization success so far, which 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