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Contents
TRENDING
3 TECHNOLOGY
VA consider cloud-based ‘VistA as a service’
FCW CALENDAR
Where you need to be next
10 WORKFORCE
How to keep feds happy. And military leaders say cyber will suffer under a CR.
11 MANAGEMENT
Officials float ideas for tackling IT workforce shortage
12 WHITE HOUSE
Trump transition is the slowest in decades
DEPARTMENTS
16IT MODERNIZATION
A costly delay in digitization
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has long struggled to modernize its paper-based systems,
and now it stands to lose the H-1B revenue it’s been using to fund the effort
BY MARCELO ROCHABRUN 22MANAGEMENT
What’s old is new again in Trump reorg plan
New guidance advises agencies to use shared services and GWACs — and IT wherever possible — in their strategies for restructuring themselves
BY MARK ROCKWELL AND ADAM MAZMANIAN
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY DRAGUTIN CVIJANOVIC
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DRILL DOWN
Orchestrating security technology
BY DAVE McCLURE
EXEC TECH
The hazards of machine learning BY KAREN EPPER HOFFMAN
COMMENTARY
Why the CDM program needs an overhaul
BY JASON MACY
FCW INDEX