Connolly, Issa Launch Congressional IT Modernization Caucus

Statement

Today Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) launched the bipartisan Congressional IT Modernization Caucus to help bring awareness to governments' need to embrace technology and analytics to better deliver services to the American public.

"The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the consequence of this inaction from the Small Business Administrations' loan processing system crashing multiple times to the state of Connecticut website not handling more than 8,300 unemployment applications," said Connolly. "It has become abundantly clear that to generate the necessary resilience against future crises effectively, governments at all levels must fully embrace cutting-edge technology and data analytics."

"Our nation should not be satisfied only with a leading position in global IT modernization. America must instead commit to the pinnacle of invention, innovation, and discovery," said Issa. "This is the best way to meet and exceed competition from China and safeguard our technological independence. This bipartisan caucus has a key role to play."

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