Multiple officials warn that disagreements over vision and lack of coordination between leadership at the USDS, GSA and the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer have hampered implementation of the IDEA Act.
Speaking with FedScoop, the officials expressed concern that USDS, led by Mina Hsiang, and GSA, led by Robin Carnahan, in the past year have focused on small, niche projects while deprioritizing big ticket items like redesigning government websites, setting tech policy standards and improving agency branding. One such niche project, cited by two officials, was a public benefits studio run by GSA’s Technology Transformation Services team, which is a pilot text notification system.
It sounds like too much progress is being made for the sake of progress.
We should be hearing about budget concerns rather than these agencies focusing on non-priotity issues.
I don’t want to start saying that these agencies are bloated or are set up in a way to benefit political partners without any work being done but it seems that way.
Perhaps it would be better to get people with real passion into the rosters rather than people interested in entertaining the public.
If anything is bloated, it’s the defense budget. Many of these agencies have websites and services that were designed in the 90s. They need to be updated. No idea why that would be defunded for these small niche projects.
But I’d be happy dellocating some of the military budget for agencies that actually help Americans.
It sounds like too much progress is being made for the sake of progress.
We should be hearing about budget concerns rather than these agencies focusing on non-priotity issues.
I don’t want to start saying that these agencies are bloated or are set up in a way to benefit political partners without any work being done but it seems that way.
Perhaps it would be better to get people with real passion into the rosters rather than people interested in entertaining the public.
If anything is bloated, it’s the defense budget. Many of these agencies have websites and services that were designed in the 90s. They need to be updated. No idea why that would be defunded for these small niche projects.
But I’d be happy dellocating some of the military budget for agencies that actually help Americans.