Trump Signs Order to Overhaul Government’s Computer Systems

Money is wasted now on maintaining costly and duplicative legacy systems often badly out of date, critics say

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to help accelerate long-delayed efforts to modernize the government’s patchwork of aging computer systems.

It’s one of a series of steps, led by senior adviser Jared Kushner, that the administration is expected to take to speed up the slow process.

The federal government spends...