Let DOGE sink its teeth into our bloated tech infrastructure

The bureaucrats who tally authorities agencies – particularly those successful complaint of tech infrastructure – are up successful arms implicit Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency ("DOGE") colleagues barging successful and making sweeping changes. And I couldn’t beryllium happier to spot it. 

My experiences arsenic White House main accusation serviceman and moving with authorities arsenic a cybersecurity advisor successful the backstage assemblage taught maine 2 things: the U.S. authorities has immoderate of the astir talented technologists and cyber warriors connected the planet; but adjacent the champion operatives are hamstrung by bureaucratic bungling, infighting, waste, outdated infrastructure and different unnecessary complications. 

Musk and DOGE offer the champion accidental successful a procreation to untangle the wide of analyzable cables that are expected to support our government, our system and our radical safe. 

Elon Musk speaks during an America PAC municipality hallway connected Oct. 26, 2024, successful Lancaster, Pennsylvania. ( Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

I and each different national section and bureau CIO had to combat the aforesaid battles against the entrenched bureaucracy that Musk is warring now. Much has been made, too, of the cadre of young "tech bros" moving astatine DOGE – the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph called them "college-aged, fresh-faced Muskovites." But marque nary mistake: they would not person gotten wrong Musk’s orbit were it not for preternatural endowment that had besides been recognized elsewhere. 

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One of these whiz kids won a $250,000 prize for utilizing AI to uncover hidden contents of past Roman papyrus. Another was fixed $100,000 successful seed wealth by OpenAI to recovered his ain startup. It whitethorn beryllium that these caller minds are conscionable what we request to rebuild our woefully outdated systems.

You don’t request to beryllium a exertion oregon cybersecurity adept to recognize that the presumption quo is inefficient astatine champion and unsafe astatine worst. Last December, the U.S. was deed with 2 of the worst cyberattacks successful our history, courtesy of the Chinese government’s elite corps of hackers. 

In 1 assault, they breached aggregate U.S. telecom companies, and adjacent gained entree to networks utilized for captious instrumentality enforcement and quality gathering. In the aftermath, determination was disorder arsenic to whose occupation it was to unafraid the important telecom networks: a authorities bureau similar the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) oregon the telecom companies themselves? What astir information collected by instrumentality enforcement agencies but stored successful the backstage companies’ systems? 

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Another Chinese onslaught targeted the Treasury Department, wherever hackers accessed documents and workstations by compromising a third-party vendor’s information key. Once again, sorting retired the work for information betwixt Treasury, Homeland Security and the White House became overly complicated, not to notation the evident nonaccomplishment to decently vet the third-party vendor’s information protocols. 

A fewer years ago, a large ransomware onslaught unopen down a nationalist substance pipeline, starring to shortages and exposing superior information flaws successful our captious infrastructure. 

In each of these cases, confusing, fragmented oversight made betterment (and the process of learning lessons) dilatory and inefficient. They showed that these inefficiencies, positive outdated information models and unclear paths of oversight, threatened our nationalist security, economical stableness and nationalist safety. 

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All of this remains existent today. Our government’s inefficiencies person led to complexity – successful systems, processes and oversight – creating unsighted spots that permission america susceptible to cyber incidents.

DOGE has the chance to chopped done the complexity, thrust accountability and guarantee cybersecurity measures really enactment – earlier the adjacent large breach. The authorities exertion apparatus should invited their fine-toothed forensic reappraisal (and astir apt would, if the territorial mindset wasn’t truthful afloat ingrained). 

By identifying inefficiencies successful operational procedures, Musk and his squad tin find ways to streamline authorities functions, trim discarded and amended services. 

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They tin prevention payer wealth by, for instance, implementing zero-based budgeting, wherever each dollar spent indispensable perpetually warrant its existence. That would unit agencies to rethink spending, ensuring resources substance efficiency, not bureaucracy. 

They would besides person to prioritize the astir worthy investments, specified arsenic upgrading outdated systems to make amended work for citizens, faster processing times and much robust information management. Encouraging the adoption of caller technologies and methodologies could acceptable a precedent for much agile and responsive authorities operations.

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I cognize this reorganization is creating a batch of uncertainty for our nation’s hardworking exertion teams, and that’s incredibly tough. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Our exertion is broken; arsenic achy arsenic this is, it indispensable beryllium done. Trust that your talent, resilience and enactment ethic volition unfastened doors. 

DOGE’s heavy dive into people, processes and exertion tin trim complexity, summation transparency and shrink our onslaught surface, making catastrophic cyber incidents acold little likely.

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