AI can only catalyze meaningful change when paired with effective operating models.

As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.

When government agencies are siloed, or poorly coordinated, the services they deliver carry the same flaws.

We’re kicking off a pilot to build an Outcome-Based Legislation Lab that will help Congress write laws that focus on impact, not just compliance. Too often, prescriptive laws end up locking agencies i...

To improve public service delivery, the federal government should adopt a Product Operating Model and build product management capacity across agencies.

To improve public service delivery, the federal government should adopt a Product Operating Model and build product management capacity across agencies.

The government could replicate some private sector practices that have provided results like digitizing more services.

Every government technology leader knows a story about a project that accidentally wasted a billion dollars. The details vary, but the arc is familiar.

Every government technology leader knows a story about a project that accidentally wasted a billion dollars. The details vary, but the arc is familiar.

Every government technology leader knows a story about a project that accidentally wasted a billion dollars. The details vary, but the arc is familiar.

A federal judge has imposed new restrictions on the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans.

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

In practice, enforcing full data access across all systems could prove expensive and may still fall short of its goal to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse.

Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts is asking the public to respond to a list of questions regarding how the Privacy Act of 1974 could be modernized.

It appears to be the first time a federal judge has acted to constrain Elon Musk, a top adviser to President Trump. The judge also ordered agency functions be partially restored, though that relief co...

Massachusetts Democrat plans bill to toughen Watergate-era restrictions on government use of personal data.

Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

Five former GSA administrators are among a group of prior agency leaders expressing deep concerns about the Trump administration's workforce cuts.

DOGE sees an urgent need to champion “wins,” as Elon Musk’s group finishes slashing federal bureaucracy and moves to building digital tools for the government.

DOGE Terminated Contracts Dashboard - Live list tracking the federal contract terminations under DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency).

Judges are considering whether longstanding constraints on government can hold up when the government itself seems indifferent to violating them.

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“It’s chaotic, and it feels like it’s chaotic on purpose.”

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Almost overnight, banal-seeming federal IT systems have become an ideologically driven bulldozer

REFORMING THE FEDERAL HIRING PROCESS AND RESTORING MERIT TO GOVERNMENT SERVICE By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws