Cloud Computing: Can A Silicon Valley CTO Save Government Software From Itself?

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Following several high-profile development disasters, government IT departments have received a mandate to change their default app-development approach from the traditional top-down model to the agile, iterative, test-centric methodology favored by leading tech companies.

While previous efforts to dynamite the entrenched, moribund IT-contracting process have crashed in flames, analysts hold out hope for the new 18F and U.S. Digital Service initiatives. Given the public’s complete lack of faith in the government’s ability to provide digital services, failure is simply not an option…


Can Silicon Valley save the federal government from itself? That’s the goal of former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, who relocated to California this summer and set about recruiting top-tier application developers from the most innovative tech companies on the planet to work for the government…

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