House Passes Fed IT Modernization Funding Bill
The House passed the Modernizing Government Technology Act Wednesday on a voice vote. HR-2227, which the House passed last year but which stalled in the Senate, would create a central IT modernization fund and individual funds for the Department of…
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Commerce and 23 other federal departments and agencies. “Government may never be like Silicon Valley, but it should not be stuck in the age of Mad Men,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on the floor. “That’s not only costly, it’s dangerous.” House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, touted the bill during a CTIA event last month (see 1704270029). The Senate Homeland Security Committee is considering the Senate companion, S-990. A day earlier, the House passed 408-3 the Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fight Act. HR-1616 and its Senate companion (S-904) would authorize the National Computer Forensics Institute to train state and local law enforcement officials, prosecutors and judges on investigating cyber and electronic crimes, doing computer and mobile device forensic examinations and responding to network invasion investigations (see 1705160080).