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Appropriate more funds, yes, but more importantly: Fix procurement. This is where there real down-in-the-trenches work needs to happen. Fix every single agen
by alexose 4y ago
Appropriate more funds, yes, but more importantly: Fix procurement. This is where there real down-in-the-trenches work needs to happen. Fix every single agency's approach to software procurement, one by one, until the entire federal government is properly incentivized to fund high quality FOSS software for the long haul.
It's a little better than it used to be with FedRAMP and such. But even now, agencies are still relying on broken-by-design contracts for terrible proprietary software.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoSounds like a technology practitioner from USDS embedding into agencies to teach their procurement folks how to procure tech, correct?
- alexose 4y agoYeah! This happened to some extent while I was there, but only around the margins. I'd love to see it be a top priority. To be fair, it's a really tough problem to solve. It would be a tough problem even without the help of the entrenched federal IT contractors (who would only stand to lose a huge amount of business).