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Office of Management and Budget/General Services Administration— Reimbursement Requirement for the Technology Modernization Fund

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Services Administration (GSA) permit agencies to provide GSA less than full reimbursement for amounts that GSA transfers to agencies from the government-wide Technology Modernization Fund (TMF). While interagency fund transfers are generally prohibited absent statutory authority, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 provides such authority by establishing TMF for GSA to provide funds to agencies to improve information technology and to enhance cybersecurity across the federal government. TMF authorizing legislation directs agencies to reimburse TMF at rates set by OMB and GSA at a level to ensure TMF's solvency, which leaves OMB and GSA the discretion to set rates at less than full reimbursement. While minimum payments are not defined by law, the statute does not provide the discretion to totally waive reimbursement by an agency.

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