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Trump is Launching a New Tech Group To 'Transform and Modernize' the US Govt (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the modernizing-things dept.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday he has signed an executive order creating a new technology council to "transfer and modernize" the U.S. government's IT systems. From a report: The gathering is part of a new effort, called the American Technology Council, commissioned by Trump in an executive order signed this morning. The effort seeks to bring leading government officials together with Silicon Valley's top minds in order to "transform and modernize" the aging federal bureaucracy "and how it uses and delivers information." Trump isn't the first sitting U.S. president to look to Silicon Valley in an attempt to bring government into the digital age. His predecessor, former President Barack Obama, similarly launched efforts like the U.S. Digital Service, which the administration billed at the time as a "startup at the White House" that sought to pair tech experts with federal agencies that needed help. Over 20 technology chief executives will attend meetings at the White House in early June to talk about improving government information technology, the report adds.

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  1. Please don't move to public cloud. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I worry about government use of modified public cloud services. We should ban government from using pure cloud solutions because the companies can hold the government hostage with the "big off switch". The gov needs to control the DataCenters that run the operations that citizens rely on.

    1. Re: Please don't move to public cloud. by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Um...
      I believe the NSA is rather good at this. (I'm being serious)
      Maybe they can redeem themselves and put some of that internal cloud capability they have up for general government usage?
      They have the following skills/assets already in-house:
      * Security
      * Archiving
      * Indexing
      * Infrastructure
      * Scalability
      * Tons of other crap.

      I'll give bonus points for re-using the existing equipment and drop table-ing the meta data they have on US citizens.

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  2. Re:Let the filling of the Feeding Trough begin by bobbied · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Said the CEO of Oracle: what ya need there is a collection of giant databases...and cloud, let there be cloud Said the CEO of Microsoft: what ya need there is a PC or MS compatible computing thing on every desk...and cloud, let there be cloud Said the CEO of Apple: what ya need there is a collection of iThings for instant communication...errr..with the cloud, let there be cloud Said the CEO of IBM: what ya need there is a Watson AI Cloudy Thingy in every agency...more cloud for every one etc. etc. etc.

    Hey, to be fair here, that Obama Care website filled up a bunch of pigs too, much like the stimulus plan of 2008 that Sherriff Joe was supposed to keep track of every dollar.....

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  3. The Cyber by Arkham · · Score: 5, Interesting
    And I quote:

    So we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a, it is a huge problem. I have a son.

    He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly do-able. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing, but that's true throughout our whole governmental society.

    What a fucking moron.

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