I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service

Re:I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service by Bahamut on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:35AM (#9287674)

Sadly, part of the cause of this is due to the small government mantra preached by "conservatives". This results in many tasks being offloaded onto contractors who end up bloating the cost and using various other backchannels.

If a lot of these things were done in-house in the government itself, things would be a lot more efficient.

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Re:I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service by refurb on Monday March 30, 2015 @01:33AM (#9287806)

Why would the lack of efficiency suddenly disappear if these tasks were brought in house? Jesus, the VA system in in house and look at that mess.

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Re:I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service by Lawtonfogle on Monday March 30, 2015 @10:20AM (#9289658)

There is a greater possibility to reduce the cost and increase the efficiency. At the same time, I think chances are those savings will not be realized due to all the buracracy that can happen as people flex their power muscles. For example, needing JQuery to be reviewed in its entirety before being allowed due to security concerns and an official rule that all code used must either be developed in house, purchased (aka, having someone else to blame if something happens), or fully reviewed before use.

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Re:I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service by aceperry on Monday March 30, 2015 @03:51AM (#9288132)

Part of the VA's problems stem from the fact that it was overwhelmed by returning vets from our wars in the middle east, and funding cuts to the VA.

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Re:I’ve Joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service by danuker on Monday March 30, 2015 @04:02AM (#9288167)

The passion it must have gone through.

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