On Risks, Breaking Past the Status Quo, and IT Transformation

The Federal Communications Commission has assembled a strong team with staff members who have strengths that complement each other to execute a transformation of our information technology systems.

Our current plans for our IT transformation will occur in three phases:

1. Stabilization of our aging IT infrastructure
2. Rationalization of our legacy IT systems to identify in what order we will shift applications to cloud-based platforms to support more efficient internal work processes, and
3. Modernization of our IT systems, where we will rewrite IT systems to employ a reusable "service catalog" of modular components across the entire FCC, with open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and built upon a common data platform.