OMB's Peter Orszag has made no secret of his disdain for federal information technology efforts, saying not only that staffers reported that going from the Obama presidential campaign into government was "like going from an X-box to an Atari," but also that "innovative uses of technology are scarce to nonexistent within the federal government," and, just this week, that agencies have "almost entirely missed" the technological transformation of the past two decades and as a result are "far behind on efficiency and service quality."
Now he's getting some pushback. Read more about it at Fedblog.
Tom Shoop
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.

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