The agency is "very interested" in building off this momentum going forward. Administrator Linda McMahon even showed up to give out the prizes.

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The freshly appointed seven-member board will be tasked with reviewing IT modernization projects that apply for funding from the central Technology Modernization Fund.

CISO Jeffery Eisensmith said the agency was developing a new acquisition management directive tailored around agile development, as well as cloud CDM.