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Cyber

White House Begins Tech Week With Industry CEOs Event To Address Government System Modernization

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, June 19th, 2017

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White House Begins Tech Week With Industry CEOs Event To Address Government System Modernization

The White House began its “tech week” initiative Monday, bringing in 18 industry CEOs to discuss ideas for government system modernization in an event hosted by the newly created American Technology Council.The event, attended by the president and vice president, technology CEOs and Trump administration cabinet members and officials, held 10 working sessions over four hours to focus on solutions for embracing cloud computing, addressing cyber security challenges, managing information technology (IT) contract reform and building government and private sector…

Budget

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Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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