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The transition team for President-elect Joe Biden released a $1.9 trillion plan to help the U.S. recover from a crushing year of economic instability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While most of the American Rescue Plan focuses on vaccine rollout, stimulus checks and job creation, a fact sheet detailing specifics of the plan also includes funding for IT modernization and cybersecurity upgrades for federal agencies.

The need for professional information technology services and staff in 2021 has never been greater.

New reports indicate sustained increases in state and local government technology spending in FY 2021 and into 2022 topping $2.25 trillion with IT leading the way in governmental earmarks as the nation still reels from last year’s pandemic.

For many companies, business preparation has collided with opportunities brought on by the pandemic. Some CIOs call themselves lucky. Others call it planning for a digital future that happened to become reality in three months rather than three years — validation for years of pushing digital transformation, building business agility, beefing up security, adding collaboration tools and adopting flexible work policies.

Demonstrating the ability to execute rapidly has helped IT leaders gain clout and political capital during the COVID-19 outbreak. Sixty-one percent of more than 4,200 IT leaders surveyed by the 2020 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey said that the pandemic has permanently increased the influence of the technology leader.