In the heyday of harvesting forests in the U.S., lumberjacks often used dynamite to break up clusters of timber that formed when thousands of logs were floated on rivers to market. In the last 18 months, the U.S. government has floated hundreds of pages of proposals into a river of policy “reforms,” dealing with innovative information technology. However, the government and the vendors who supply it are still looking for a way to break up the logjam of directives, so that agencies can step up the purchase of vastly improved IT programs.
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Feds' IT Report Card: Good Effort but Incomplete
Posted by: John K. Higgins June 19, 2012 05:00 AMIn the heyday of harvesting forests in the U.S., lumberjacks often used dynamite to break up clusters of timber that formed when thousands of logs were floated on rivers to market. In the last 18 months, the U.S. government has floated hundreds of pages of proposals into a river of policy “reforms,” dealing with innovative information technology. However, the government and the vendors who supply it are still looking for a way to break up the logjam of directives, so that agencies can step up the purchase of vastly improved IT programs.