Federal Government Information Technology

As Oracle blasts 'false narratives' in federal IT, digital government experts aren't impressed

Fedscoop: After the White House released its draft report on IT modernization at the end of August, the Office of American Innovation and American Technology Council solicited public comments on the document.

And comment, the public did — or rather, mostly the companies that sell technology to the government. The comment period has now ended and the over 90 submissions received are posted to GitHub, awaiting White House review.

But one letter in particular has already caught attention and a little bit of ire for suggesting the government backtrack key elements of its recent modernization push.

A letter written by Kenneth Glueck, senior vice president at Oracle, slams what the company sees as “three false narratives that have taken the [U.S. Government] off course.” The main target of Oracle’s upset? 18F and the U.S. Digital Service.

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