I once saved an agency around $2 million on a modernization project because of a bad contract they had, it took me several phone calls and less than a week.

You need alignment and air cover to pull stuff like this off, but the game changing is stuff we weren't even allowed to promote or talk about
Reposted from Waldo Jaquith
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million.

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