Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, prepares for Cobol, cloud, mainframes

A new administration takes office and announces plans to modernize IT across the federal government. Sound familiar? It should. Every administration sets this goal -- and now it's President Donald Trump's turn.

The White House on Monday announced an "Office of American Innovation," which will be tasked with "modernizing the technology of every federal department," said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, at his daily briefing Monday. The goal will be "identifying transformational" projects, he said.

That effort will be led by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose background is in real estate and publishing.

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