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email April 29, 2021
The federal watchdog warned that eight of the most important mission-critical modernization efforts could fail without sufficient, documented plans.
Among federal agencies operating the 10 most critical aged IT systems in government, only two have fully developed plans to modernize.
Nearly two years after the Government Accountability Office identified 10 legacy federal systems most critical to the respective agency’s mission and most in need of updating, eight of those agencies have yet to produce workable modernization plans.
The 10 systems range from 8 to 51 years old “and, collectively, cost about $337 million annually to operate and maintain,” according to a GAO report released this week. Beyond cost, the aging systems are “operating with known security vulnerabilities and unsupported hardware and