Bring Government IT Operations back "in-house"
Many, if not most, federal IT projects and their subsequent operation are handled by contractors and vendors. While the individuals managing these services are quite competent, the management overhead and inflexibility brought about by the contractor management process makes these operations very inflexible and slow to change.
Bringing these operations back in-house and building an engineering driven organization that can move quickly to provide serve the quickly changing technology needs could save billions in wasted money and time.
rabanz
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Ynot56
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The problem is not the vehicle, it goes into ideas like
PROFIT and LOSS
The government has great difficulty making itself more efficient without indicators of progress like profit.
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jcarbaugh
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I used to work as a government contractor and can attest that the contracting industry as a whole is fleecing the federal government for millions and millions of dollars each year. A vast majority of contractors and federally employed IT workers are incompetent and should be replaced by skilled workers. One talented employee could easily replace three or more federal employees or contractors.
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mstead
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What do you base your assumption of "...save billions in wasted money and time." on? What needs to be looked at is how the government runs their IT and how new methods and procedures can help. How many billions will it cost for a new government run infrastructure to be built and who will be hired to run it? Will existing commercial facilities be federalized?