President Trump is asking the CEOs of the world's largest tech companies for help in modernizing the American government system.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the administration was focusing on technology this week.
Other prominent administration participants include General H.R. McMaster, who is the national security advisor; Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert; Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget; and three cabinet secretaries: Steven Mnuchin of Treasury, John Kelly of Homeland Security and Wilbur Ross of Commerce.
He became one of her father's confidantes and election aides in 2015 when Trump announced his plans to run for president.
Next up on the White House's tech agenda: drones and universal broadband.
A major revelation made by the Head of the Office of American Innovation is that the U.S. Department of Defense still uses 8-inch #floppy disks to store data. "So far I've found exactly the opposite", said Kushner. "That is a core promise and we are keeping it". But if it leads to more government contracting opportunities for small businesses, it may well be worth the wait. He said there was "a lot of room for optimization in the federal government".
However, the impact of modernizing the delivery of public services will be limited if the budgets for the underlying services are slashed by the Trump administration.
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Trump has also told friends and others that a " witch hunt " is being conducted against him. Comey said he believed Trump's advice to be a direction and thus felt uncomfortable by it.
"W$3 e're working very diligently with everybody, including Congress, on immigration so that you can get the people you want in your companies", Trump said, after the meeting. The ATC was designed by Trump to help cut government waste.
This is something Cook has publicly discussed before. Leaders at Apple and Google were among the American corporate executives who appealed to the president to stay in the pact.
Saying the federal government is lagging behind the "technology revolution", President Donald Trump called for more than $1 trillion in savings during the next 10 years by overhauling outdated computer systems and improving information technology. CEO Jeff Bezos and Alphabet Inc.
However, only one of the major tech companies opted not to attend Monday's White House meeting: Facebook was invited, but chose to sit this one out, according to a Recode report.
Technology's multicultural and diverse talent pool can not exist without incentives for workers from all corners of the world, more so when the case is that numerous CEOs of these companies are naturalized foreigners themselves. Most recently, the tech industry criticized Trump over his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.
18 of the founding members of the council will attend the meeting, but two figures will be noticeably absent: Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk, and the former CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick. Climate change is real.
Uber apologized for the misunderstanding and Kalanick sent a memo to all of Uber's staff.
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