Trump Gets New List of “Duplication and Redundancy Everywhere”
Federal agency reorganizers should pay special attention to the new Government Accountability Office report on fragmentation, overlap and duplication released today.
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NASA to Offer Administrative Bots-as-a-Service
Imagine pushing a button to send an army of unseen bots to handle the drudgery of your job. Filling out forms, passing information among groups, handling sign-offs, that sort of thing. Then imagine that you could buy such an army as a service from another agency that has to follow the same regulations and receives the same kind of oversight as yours.
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Is the Procurement Process a Proxy for Actual Results?
Andrew McMahon, now atDCode42, worked in the Obama Administration on technology policy and building sustainable innovation in government. Here, he examines what inhibits government from effectively building and buying modern technology. Unsurprisingly, procurement processes play a key role. Some agencies, like DHS, make a space for emerging technology to be adopted to meet key program needs, he says.
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Buying IT: Talk More, Use Statements of Objectives, Stick to the Schedule, Use RFIs Judiciously
Mary Davie leads the government-wide Information Technology Category as well as the General Services Administration’s IT Category. She recently held a discussion with 50 IT company representatives to chew over what works and what doesn’t in federal IT procurement. Davie said she wasn’t surprised by the takeaways, but she was in violent agreement with a few:
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ASI’s Cooke: Category Management Can Help Agencies Buy American
In “Is IT exempt from Trump’s ‘Buy American’ order?,” FCW’s Troy Schneider quotes ASI CEO Tim Cooke offering an out-of-the-box proposal for agencies seeking ways to comply. Use category management, he suggests.
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