; (3) information technology priorities were or were not funded and the reasons for not funding all priorities in a given fiscal year; (4) the Department has identified and addressed skills gaps needed to implement the information technology strategic plan; and (5) unnecessary duplicate information technology within and across the components of the Department has been eliminated. . (b) Software licensing (1) Software inventory Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and every two years thereafter until 2024, the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with Department component chief information officers, shall— (A) conduct a Department-wide inventory of all existing software licenses held by the Department, including utilized and unutilized licenses; (B) assess the needs of the Department and the components of the Department for software licenses for the subsequent two fiscal years; (C) examine how the Department can achieve the greatest possible economies of scale and cost savings in the procurement of software licenses; (D) determine how the use of shared cloud-computing services will impact the needs for software licenses for the subsequent two fiscal years; (E) establish plans and estimated costs for eliminating unutilized software licenses for the subsequent two fiscal years