One Way Lawmakers Are Trying To Prevent Government IT Disasters : All Tech Considered : NPR

"One of the issues that you have here, and other countries have, is the absence of a delivery capacity — the absence of being able to put your hand on teams of highly skilled, multidisciplinary technical and digital and policy people and deploy them at points of real urgency," says Bracken, of America's current government tech-deployment system. The Eshoo-Connolly bill calls for putting that team at the heart of government, with the new digital office out of the White House. Bracken calls this draft bill "a great start" in solving the delivery problem..."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/27/267205156/one-way-lawmakers-are-trying-to-prevent-government-it-disasters