Obama: Federal IT procurement is massively inefficient despite high-caliber talent
Barack Obama · President Barack Obama: How to adapt to changing rules, part 2 · Jun 11, 2021 · at 2:03
Former US President Barack Obama discusses the structural flaws in government technology with host Reid Hoffman while reflecting on the launch of Healthcare.gov.
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“The truth is, certainly at the highest levels of the federal government, people are just as smart and work just as hard, if not harder, than anybody in the private sector. But where there is massive inefficiency is technology and IT procurement. It's just miserable.”
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