Will 'acceptable failure' be acceptable in Trump administration?

Federal Times:  High above Wilson Boulevard in Eastern Foundry’s new Rosslyn campus, Dave Zvenyach was discussing the central tenet of the new gospel of innovation in government: the benefits of failing.

“So my theory is government is not afraid of failure. My theory is government is afraid of failing unpredictably,” said the executive director of 18F — the General Services Administration’s digital services consultancy — at the Jan. 31 event.

The event was billed as the opening of government technology incubator Eastern Foundry’s new Rosslyn campus, but it also served as an unofficial celebration of the Trump administration’s tacit endorsement of 18F, which publicly emerged in a tweet from then-Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing five days earlier.

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