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White House tasks tech CEOs with fixing federal IT
individuals were chosen for NASA’s newest class of astronaut candidates from a pool of more than 1,800
The Trump administration’s American Technology Council held its first meeting in June with the stated goal of identifying solutions for fixing federal IT and digital services. The meeting brought together 17 high-profile industry executives and 18 leaders from various agencies.
Trump sat in on some of the sessions and offered remarks at the end of the day. “We’re embracing big change, bold thinking and outsider perspectives to transform government and make it the way it should be and at far less cost,” he said. “A sweeping transformation of the federal government’s technology... will deliver dramatically better services for citizens, stronger protection from cyberattacks” and savings of as much as $1 trillion over a decade.
According to a White House state- ment, the attendees participated in
“10 working sessions over four hours focused on citizen services, cloud com- puting, analytics, cybersecurity, big data, purchasing and contract reform, talent recruitment and retraining, government and private-sector partnerships, H-1B visas and future trends.”
Speaking to reporters after the meet- ing, Jared Kushner, special adviser to the president, stressed the importance of data center consolidation, cloud migration and modernized systems. The Trump budget seeks more than $95 billion for IT in fiscal 2018.
“Our goal here is simple,” Kushner said in his first public remarks. “We are here to improve the day-to-day lives of the average citizen. That’s a core prom- ise, and we are keeping it.”
He added that “we have set ambi- tious goals and empowered interagency teams to tackle our objectives. Together,
we will unleash the creativity of the pri- vate sector to provide citizen services in a way that has never happened before. We will foster a new set of startups focused on gov-tech and be the global leader in the field making government more transparent and responsive to citizens’ needs.”
Kushner said he had been warned before joining government “that the bureaucracy would resist any change that we tried to implement. So far, I have found exactly the opposite.”
Many Silicon Valley leaders have publicly clashed with Trump on certain fronts, including encryption, immigration and climate change. However, they agree on some of Trump’s key goals, including a governmentwide technology revamp that relies heavily on the private sector.
— Chase Gunter
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