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Carol Cha: Census casts 20-20 focus on IT for 2020 count

The 2020 population count is five years away, a blink of an eye for the Census Bureau. It has to make big decisions now on technology for conducting the count a...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

November 18, 2015 9:18 am

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Carol Cha, director of IT Acquisition Management Issues, GAO

The 2020 population count is five years away, a blink of an eye for the Census Bureau. It has to make big decisions now on technology for conducting the count and it needs time to test everything out. Those challenges have caught the attention of the Government Accountability Office. Carol Cha, director of IT Acquisition Management Issues at GAO, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about the Census' plan.