Policymakers should speed up cloud adoption and enhance citizen companies with a federal cloud modernization moonshot. The initiative focused 31 percent reduction over a ~three-year period. See August 1, 2016 “Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies” from Federal CIO Tony Scott on Data Center Optimization Initiative; and June 25, 2019, replace Memorandum from Federal CIO Suzette Kent.
