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Oregon Department of Agriculture outlines $15M IT modernization and flags federal funding uncertainty during budget hearing
Summary
At a March 25 informational hearing on SB 5502 and SB 5503, Oregon Department of Agriculture leaders described a governor-recommended IT modernization package (POP 120/Project 1 ODA) and warned that federal funding trends pose risks to key plant and animal programs.
The Joint Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Natural Resources continued an informational hearing March 25 on Senate Bill 5502 and Senate Bill 5503, hearing a multi-division presentation from the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) that emphasized an IT modernization package and uncertainty in federal funding.
The agency’s chief information officer, Ryan Schluntz, described Project 1 ODA and related policy option package POP 120 as the cornerstone of the agency’s technology plan. Schluntz said the package would fund a move away from aging, heavily customized systems to a cloud-first, managed-services approach and help bring ODA into closer alignment with state technology services. “We consume it like electricity,” Schluntz said, explaining that a managed-cloud approach lets the agency scale infrastructure up and down as needed.
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