A new ITIF report proposes a specific set of recommendations for how the White House Office of American Innovation should apply customer-driven innovations to federal processes and policies.

Eligible proposals must focus on enabling "revolutionary advances" using innovative means, according to the announcement.

"We had an agile process for doing the solicitation and the evaluation, but we fell back to a waterfall documentation process, which caused us some problems," DHS Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa said.

The State Department is looking at the private sector to provide inspiration and solutions ahead of what could be a lean fiscal 2018 budget.

Electronic health records managed by the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs are ripe for innovation, the Republican congressman says.

In this contributed commentary, DCode42's Andrew McMahon explores how the press and Congress can help government overcome its technology problem.