“The annual paperwork burden, which is now imposed by departments and agencies… on the public, has grown to approximately 9 billion hours,” reads the executive order. That number is very high. The new requirements apply to high-impact service providers (HIPs) certified by the Office of Budget and Management. The list of HIPs that comes from the Performance.gov website is based on agriculture, education, and state’s Departments, the Social Security, Small Business, and the General Services Administrations and many others. The Federal government has to design and deliver services such that people who are able to navigate can experience. “We must use technology to modernize the Government and provide services to all Americans that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protect, transparent, and responsive.” The special changes, which I referenced above, include simplifying the filing of taxes online, using “innovational technologies at airport security checkpoints to reduce passenger waiting time,” updating the Fish and Wildlife Service website, and testing the effect of women, infants, and children’s and women’s and children’s payments online. Deputy director of Management, Jason Miller, tells Protocol that “All of these actions are short term in nature, meaning they are generally expected to be completed in the coming months, within one year.” We don’t understand how many times that order is given, but it does give us the following, namely, when the length of the order is 90 to 180 days.
