OMB’s Orszag says government inefficiency due to old computers; yet agencies spent $46 billion on “computers” in 2009

By Mark Tapscott

Published January 14, 2010 5:00am ET

Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag told a group of business leaders today that the federal government is inefficient because its employees have more advanced computers at home than they do at their offices.

“Twenty years ago, people who came to work in the federal government had better technology at work than at home,” Orszag said. “Now that’s no longer the case.”