With all of the recent focus on scientific know-how and the promises to pick up "getting stuff done" by the US government, Techdirt's Masnick suggests that they might just be the most interesting tech startup to watch this year. "But, of course, talk is cheap (especially in politics). And, while Chopra (and Vivek Kundra, the government's CIO) both genuinely have a nice track record of accomplishing these sorts of goals in their past jobs, the proof is in what's indeed getting done. We'd already be mentioned at least one success story with the IT dashboard at USASpending.gov, but can it continue? I have to admit, a second thing that impressed me about Chopra was that, even with such a success, he didn't focus on it. The fact that he got unison such a site in such a short period of time is impressive enough, and while he be featured it in his talks, most of them were much more focused not on what he'd already done, but on what he was going to do — and the plans all seemed quite achievable.

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