There is a precedent for managers to work in the US government at the same time. When the US was at war at the beginning of 1900, the federal government recruited business leaders to fill important functions. They kept their jobs and wages in the private sector; The government threw an annual salary of $ 1 to the managers who became known as 'dollars a year'. The congress later brought concern that some of them are involved in self -handling.
Since then, other managers have retained their jobs while serving in government councils and committees, usually in part -time capacity. But maintaining a daily operational role in both the federal government and a company is now virtually unheard of, says David E. Lewis, a political scientist who wrote a book about appointed government bureaucrats. “Most people in regular executive positions develop from private interests before the government service,” he says.
According to his company, Trump has handed over the management of his companies, including hotels and golf courses, to his children for the duration of his presidency (although he is reportedly still taking meetings that have asked questions among ethical experts). Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and has supervision of four other companies, including X and Neuralink, has been a vocal figure in the activities of Doge, but the White House has said that he is not really in charge – without specifying who it Project leads. Some of the other people associated with Doge are otherwise unemployed, have taken leave or retained double roles, but at lower levels than Chief Executive.
Krause is the only Trump officer who has been identified as a CEO and a daily decision -maker within a certain desk. After years of working as director at Chip companies, Krause joined the Florida in the Florida in 2022. company. At the time, Citrix was saddled with an extensive amount of debts and generating essentially stagnant income, and although Tibco had not made its finances recently, analysts had considered the prospects of the company as 'negative'.
The US government, including state and local agencies, is expected to spend $ 287 billion on technology this year, or about 14 percent of the total US technical expenditure, according to Forrester, a research and consultancy company. Whether the efforts of DOGE to stimulate the quality and efficiency of federal IT systems will lead to increasing or falling expenses is not clear. So far, Doge has tried to buy both upcoming technologies and have moved to cancel some existing contracts. But access to the inside of Krause may offer an advantage for cloud software at a crucial moment for the company.
In the past few years, cloud software has fired thousands of people and accused that it was possible with cyber security. The most well -known range of Cloud Software, Citrix, enables groups of employees to gain access to data and perform apps that are on an external machine. But increasing the acceptance of tools that can work on every device has been demolished part of the Dominance of Citrix, according to Will McKeon-White, Senior Analyst for Infrastructure and Operations in Forrester. There are now other options, he says, including Microsoft and smaller companies such as Island.
The TIBCO program of Cloud Software, which helps employees to automate tasks, such as adding a new user to multiple internal databases, is nowadays often mentioned in the wrong kind of conversations, according to David Mooter, a Forrester Principal Analyst. “They usually come up more when someone wants them to abandon them,” he says.
That said, some cloud -software services are more affordable than alternatives to governments, and they are also better suited for the older infrastructure used by some agencies. Last year one of Citrix's best seems to have been financially in a long time, says Shannon Kalvar, a research director for Enterprise Systems Management and other areas at IDC. One reason for the revival is that Citrix has placed more emphasis on catering for the function requirements of the largest customers, including governments.
