Opinion | How to Fix the Way U.S. Government Spends Billions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Recent experiments with procurement reform in California and New York are showing how the government can do a better job of supporting new ideas and keeping pace with technology, in fields such as artificial intelligence and climate change.
54% : Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new Department of Government Efficiency in Donald Trump's incoming administration.
52% : She has also worked as an independent consultant for state and federal governments.
50% : First, a quick tutorial on how government contracting usually works:Contractors compete for government business by responding to requests for proposals that outline the details of projects and products the government wants to buy.
49% : Start-ups that try to compete for government business often flounder while waiting for a decision, a phenomenon known as the valley of death, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Defense Department's notoriously protracted procurement process.
47% : Procurement reform is not easy, requiring carefully considered legal, political and, perhaps most important, cultural change.
45% : Today this power is known as the other transaction authority and is typically used to structure technology competitions to draw in vendors new to government contracting.

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