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by angersock 4308 days ago
You're wrong here.

The problem isn't that America doesn't need a CTO--as a nation, as a government, it makes more sense to bring systems expertise in-house than to keep bleeding resources out to contractors. There really should be a .gov entity that handles IT and application development.

That said, the problem is that such a position is going to be beset on all sides by people that don't want their job disrupted and which won't be given enough authority to actually change workflows to match the new software.
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justizin 4307 days ago
"There really should be a .gov entity that handles IT and application development."

I think this is the USDS, the "US Digital Service":

  https://playbook.cio.gov/
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acdha 4307 days ago
See also 18F:

https://18f.gsa.gov/

They've made a lot of good hires, too - see e.g.:

https://twitter.com/18F/lists/team/members

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