"President Trump has made overhauling government technology a priority for his administration - at least sort of - since coming into office. The Trump-created, formerly Musk-helmed not-quite-a-government-department, DOGE, was given a broad mandate to modernize IT systems when it was stood up in January, but, in the process, the government's tech transformation team 18F was shut down allegedly under its pressure, and has made closing IT deals more difficult. Likewise, a lot of IT staff have been laid off since the Trump team took the reins."
"With the shutdown now underway, the immediate impact is clear: non-essential IT modernization projects have stalled, creating backlogs in areas such as infrastructure upgrades, cloud migrations, and system updates,"
"Every day of delay compounds long-standing legacy challenges and drives up future costs," the former CISO said. "Beyond the immediate disruption, this shutdown risks long-term setbacks."
The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews. Prior administration actions included creating DOGE to modernize IT, shuttering the 18F tech transformation team, and reducing IT staff, yet federal IT modernization contracts for AI and cloud migrations continued. The shutdown has stalled infrastructure upgrades, cloud migrations, and system updates, creating backlogs. Prolonged delays will compound legacy-system challenges and increase future costs, and the pause risks long-term setbacks for federal technology transformation efforts.
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