‘Badass Innovators’ Get Down To Work

Eighteen Presidential Innovation Fellows, sworn into government service by Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Thursday, have six months to get five major government initiatives up and running.

A few of the fellows, whom federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park sometimes calls “badass innovators,” have been at work for several weeks.

A team focused on easing the burden of government contracting for small businesses already has developed a tool for release late Thursday on the social coding site GitHub, where developers and contractors can offer feedback. The tool is a statement of work composer that aims to cut down composition time for contracting officers and companies bidding on software contracts, Sean Greene, associate administrator at the Small Business Administration and the government liaison for the RFP-EZ team, said during Thursday’s launch event...