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.

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. In the process, the government's tech transformation team 18F was shut down allegedly under DOGE's pressure, and it has made closing IT deals more difficult . Likewise, a lot of IT staff have been laid off since the Trump team took the reins.

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Despite that, IT modernization p

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