There's no doubt that federal IT modernization sped up over the past year. In a recent survey of 300 federal IT executives and mission owners, 85% said the COVID-19 pandemic was a watershed moment for government modernization.[i] Most agencies experienced a surge in telework - in some cases up to 90% of the workforce[ii] - and had to scale for remote access. For example, the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) had to manage an additional 100,000 employees who worked remotely in the first few months of the pandemic.i

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