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From: GCN
By Sara Friedman
The state of Oklahoma spends approximately 10,712 hours a year working to comply with federal regulations, and those compliance efforts create challenges for consolidating cross-agency IT operations, Oklahoma’s CIO told a House panel.
“We had to devote time and resources working with our state agency customers to explain to them that the unified IT structure could and would meet the compliance expectations of their federal partners,” said Bo Reese, Oklahoma CIO and president of the National Association of State CIOs, in his written testimony for a July 18 hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee. “We continue to devote personnel time and resources to meet federal regulatory demands because our federal partners do not recognize our IT service model.”
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