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 Welcome to the Great Outsourcing of Public Service Information Technology Governance to Private Vendors... Without beating up on the IRS IT folk (IMHO they have phenomenal people over there trying to change things), this is a story I see every day as a Public CIO. Agencies hand over the keys and accountability for technology solutions to vendors with very little in-house SME or time to dig into what they actually do. Then we act surprised when we find that they do these things 2 comments
This. Don't usually do a plug on the Masto but if you haven't read [RE]CODING <AMERICA/> I would highly recommend it I don't want to paint the landscape as a B&W one (it isn't) but there are large portions of goverment where the relationship with tech vendors is an extrodinarily unhealthy one, where there truly is no strategic IT function (for the reasons you mention and more) and the vendors who are entrenched in that vertical are highly motivated to keep it that way |
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@NoRomBasic @briankrebs public funds enriching private pockets while the exact same private pockets yell “government slow! incompetent! more outsourcing!”