How to get practical value from artificial intelligence -- GCN

For the past decade, cloud has been all the rage in federal IT circles, as agencies look for ways to decrease the burden of legacy IT spending. Today, the IT modernization push continues, and agencies can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. So far in 2017, there have been positive signs from Congress and the White House that IT modernization will remain a critical part of our government's priorities moving forward. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders -- one on IT modernization and one on cybersecurity -- that signaled his administration would be taking the push seriously. Similarly, the House of Representatives approved the Modernizing Government Technology Act, commonly referred to as the MGT Act, to set aside funding for federal agencies to upgrade to new platforms, such as cloud, to drastically overall its IT infrastructure.