Defense funding will likely be curtailed to address federal deficit increases, at a time when when investments in cybersecurity and 5G are needed to compete with China, the Virginia senator said.

Segment routing provides a simpler, cost effective approach for routing data and removes the limitations to federal network architectures operating legacy systems.

NewPay will replace legacy systems used by multiple agencies like the Interior Business Center's and require a degree of collaboration seldom seen in government, according to human resources experts.

Outdated code, old hardware and attrition of the qualified workforce makes IRS's IT management a risky game.

"Our goal is to get a lot of the data into an environment where we can start making better decisions," said the Pentagon No. 2.

Taking a ‘people, processes and technology’ approach to modernizing federal IT systems.