The Trump administration is also Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doge) A government law, a draft law of the two parties in Congress, aims to produce government computer systems of the “Stone Age”.
the Both parties The Law on Promoting Agencies and Supervision of Software Assets (SAMOSA) passed the House of Representatives in December, Joni Ernset, R-IOWA, It leads the efforts to get its pass in the upper room.
Ernest, Senate Speaker Doug Cocos, said that the law of Samosa “will come out of the Stone Age to the twenty -first century.”
Fox News Digital is informed that the bill can provide $ 750 million annually to taxpayers by unifying the licenses of cloud computing programs for federal agencies. A source close to the proposal said: “The reform of federal information technology purchases will be a major part of its overwhelming efforts as Chair of the Senate Duji to reduce the size of the government and get rid of more than $ 2 trillion of waste,” said a source close to the proposal.
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“If the government allows a purposeful competition to provide bids for software, taxpayers can save up to $ 750 million annually,” Ernst said in a statement to the digital newspaper Fox News. “Let's make my involvement to force the federal agencies to take logical steps when purchasing programs, instead of getting rid of taxpayer dollars such as Monopoly Money.”
The legislative proposal has industry groups support.
“The Samosa Law is a vital step towards updating the federal information technology infrastructure, ensuring fair programs licensing practices in purchasing and providing money for taxpayers,” said Ryan Tripletti, CEO of the Fox News coalition. digital. “There are not many areas in Congress where we see support from the two parties, but ensuring that our information technology infrastructure is effective, safe and effective as possible. Get Samosa Law via the finish line and fall into the law.”
The draft law gives the chief information employee in each government agency no more than 18 months to organize a “comprehensive evaluation” of the paid program or its publication throughout the agency. The review must include stocks for all current programs, determining the program use contracts, expiration dates, and additional costs or costs, including fees or costs for the use of cloud services, not included in the initial costs of a contract. The review then must give the necessary information agency to “unify the program's entitlement to each agency”, reducing unnecessary costs and “developing standards and procedures for how the agency adopts cost -cost acquisition strategies.”
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On the side of the house, the Samosa Law was presented by Representative Matt Cartrait, de Ba, and a group of 20 members participated in his sponsorship.
Ernst formulated a message in November to Elon Musk and Fifke Ramasuami (who has been out of then, while he was weighing a Oiio Governor's possible offer)The ideas are determined by “trillion dollars” of ideas to trim fat and reduce red ink. ”
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Among the options, Ernst said, “The unification of licenses of cloud computing programs for agencies may save $ 750 million every year.”
She cited a study conducted by Michael Garland, A The software industry expert and government, who found Microsoft and Oracle, the largest software companies in the world, received 25 % to 30 % of their contracts “without meaning competition”.
Quoting one example of the “seller lock”, the study found that the government spent another $ 112 million to buy Microsoft Office from Google “In order to avoid the costs of the switch.”
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The report said: “An improvement of 5 percent in price performance, due to strengthening programming competition, can produce savings of up to $ 750 million annually,” the report said.
He also described how the United States government spent nearly $ 2 trillion on IT (IT) since 1994, and about $ 300 billion of these expenses was on a commercial program (COTS).
“On an annual basis, the government is collected from $ 10 to 15 billion dollars on new programs, for maintenance and support for the software that has been purchased in advance. Unfortunately, the majority of Cots programs are allocated to a limited group of software companies that have Garland books” managed to create Cots software It is largely intended. As a result, the oligarchy for software companies was free to use fear, uncertainty and sometimes questionable commercial practices to make authentic competitions against current software applications relatively rare. ”
Ernst's speech also indicated how the US government accountability office (GOO) was determined to the tasks of the agencies “but ranged from about eight to 51 years and” combined about 337 million dollars annually to work and maintenance. ”
Many systems have been used old languages, such as the common language of the directed business (COBOL).
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