Administration Committed To Improving IT Use To Make Way For Layoffs
The Administration means to make good on its goal to cut $250 billion from the discretionary part of the federal budget over the next decade–a sum that almost all analysts believe is inadequate. Peter R. Orszag, the Director of the…
Peter R. Orszag, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget said in a memo today that
a significant IT gap has developed over the past decade and a half between the public and private sectors – and that is a big part of the productivity divide between the two. Closing this IT gap is key to boost efficiency and make government more open and responsive to the wants and needs of the public.
The improvement, if it can be made, will allow the Administration to fire enough employees to complete the $250 million in cuts.
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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
