Federal CIOs have rapidly shifted their focus to ensure their workforces have the tools and network capacity needed to continue functioning as normally as possible during the coronavirus pandemic. While the scale-up to remote work happened quickly, CIOs said the technology that supported the change was years in the making. In fact, several CIOs said the ability of their agencies to continue operations without major disruptions was in large part due to the progress made on IT modernization well before the health crisis hit. Billy Mitchell has the story.

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