Efforts to track the coronavirus' spread have been hampered by a lack of interoperability between federal and state and local public health department, laboratory and care provider systems.

In an interview, Kent explained how trying to fit large-scale, multi-year modernization projects into one-year budget cycles can often lead to the short-changing of true digital transformation in the government space.

The proposed Senate bill would require telework where possible while granting agency heads the flexibility to sanction in-person work when necessary.

The lawmakers are asking the Appropriations Committee to consider adding $1 billion in TMF funding in the forthcoming coronavirus relief package.

CBP wants to breathe new life into its 30-year-old Automated Commercial System, a mainframe platform that runs on 3.9 million lines of COBOL code to track, control, and process everything imported into the U.S.

House Democrats included the much-needed funding for multi-agency IT projects in their HEROES Act, which awaits Senate action.