“Agriculture Department CIO Gary Washington laid out his agency’s IT modernization journey today, beginning with USDA’s work as…”
“Phase II, Washington explained, is the one to two-year implementation phase. “We are implementing the recommended solutions from the vendors,” Washington said, following the results of the CoE Phase I assessments. Contracts were just awarded to 15 vendors at the beginning of this month to support the CoE Phase II journey.”
“To that point, Washington also relayed that USDA has even more projects in the TMF pipeline. He said the agency has submitted two more proposals to the TMF board on which it is still waiting to hear back. One is a cloud computing initiative, the other would support single-family housing and rural development.” Read the full article here.
Source: USDA Pushing Ahead With CoE Phase II, TMF – October 10, 2018. MeriTalk.