Office of American Innovation on Keeping Modernization Apolitical

NextGov: Though the present political terrain can seem tribal and polarizing, the White House Office of American Innovation’s efforts to modernize federal operations and services have remained neutral, an official said last week.

“We’ve been in a political time for arguably a decade,” Matt Lira, special assistant to the president for innovation policy and initiatives, said at a Business Roundtable event on securing digital identity in Washington Wednesday. “I believe with increasing amounts of optimism that the modernization of our government has been preserved as something that is relatively apolitical.”

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