He announced his resignation in a tweet with an accompanying letter calling his work with VA "the honor of my life."

Thomas Modly said the move comes as part of his commitment to “implementing a culture of agility, accountability, and enhanced lethality with the Department of the Navy.”

While the support for IT modernization has been prominent, the agency leadership needed to implement those plans could be walking out the door.

Foster's last day is Aug. 19, before joining the National Credit Union Administration as deputy CIO.

The Department of Navy and Marine Corps CIOs lobbied for new technologies to make the most of their wireless systems in an overcrowded and constrained spectrum environment.

The Food and Drug Administration has a half-dozen red projects on the federal IT Dashboard, meaning they rate 1 out of 5 — the lowest score possible…