Hillary Clinton laid out her plan for the federal government’s IT future on June 27, releasing her Technology and Innovation Agenda.
The agenda outlines Clinton’s innovation vision for a possible Democratic administration, touching on a range of policy initiatives ranging from net neutrality to science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
Related: Read the agenda
But the presumed Democratic presidential nominee’s vision for the federal government includes support for current innovation initiatives, like GSA’s 18F and the Presidential Innovation Fellows, but also an expansion of certain strategies to make agencies more technologically nimble.
Some of the initiatives in the agenda include:
Making the U.S. Digital Service permanent
Clinton’s campaign said that she will emphasize digital teams throughout federal agencies, as well as outside experts, to leverage consistent innovation in the government.
“There should be a constant flow of technology and design experts working to make it easier for Americans to get affordable health insurance, apply for student loans, or get the veterans benefits they deserve,” the agenda said.
The campaign said that Clinton would continue support of teams like 18F and would explore applying best practices to assisting state and local governments as well.
Standing up “Yelp for government” and performance metrics
The campaign calls for digitizing the top 25 federal government services provided directly to citizens and establishing performance and customer service metrics.
Clinton will also support the “Yelp for government” strategy of allowing citizens to rate agencies and services online.
Streamline IT acquisition
Clinton said she would reduce the acquisition burden for agencies to procure IT products as well as focus on open-source software and splitting up IT buys into smaller projects to make them more manageable.
Fully implement the DATA Act and other open data initiatives
The campaign also proposes to increase transparency with the ongoing implementation of the DATA Act. Clinton’s team said she would also shift regulation requirements from documents to structured data entries.
Increase cybersecurity efforts
The agenda voices support for issues like ethical hacking to ensure the cybersecurity of federal agencies, similar to the Department of Defense’s “Hack the Pentagon” pilot. Clinton also pledged to support broader use of government red teams to test systems and the adoption of multifactor identification.
Engage citizens for innovation
The campaign said a Clinton administration would continue President Obama’s strategy of using Idea Labs and incentive prizes to identify innovative strategies for the federal government.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has not yet released his position on innovation and technology policy.
