Doge Dead? No. Just Evolving – 7/27/25
July 27, 2025 DOGE dead? No. Just evolving. Hooray! Since its beginning in 2016, Blueprint 2025 has advocated a basic change in the way our government operates. Government processes must be digitalized so that decisions can be data driven and AI assisted, outcomes can be reliably predicted, effects can be monitored to allow continuous fine…Read More
Musk Leaves Ashes – Are We Coming to a Phoenix Yet?
When Infrastructure professionals saw President Trump’s Executive Order creating the DOGE and appointing Elon Musk to head it, many of us were elated. Finally, they were doing what we have been asking for years—installing digital infrastructure, digitalizing management systems, driving them with data and creating robust data-driven management capacity in essentially all agencies. The text…Read More
Hearing March 11, 2025 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations
Congressman Pete Sessions 2157 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Congressman Kweisi Mfume 2263 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515 RE: Hearing March 11, 2025 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations Shifting Gears: Moving from Recovery to Prevention of Improper Payments and Fraud Dear Congressmen: The Blueprint…Read More
DOGE – Redux – Blueprint 2025 Commentary After – 100 days
Blueprint 2025’s comments on (1) President Trump’s Executive Order which established the DOGE and (2) the process by which it has been carried out have gone from positive to negative. This is not because of the Order or its vision, but, rather, because of the blunt, ham-handed and unsophisticated way in which it has been…Read More
Comments re DOGE Caucus Announcement
February 5, 2025 Senator Joni Ernst Via Facsimile: 202-224-9369 Dear Senator Ernst: Blueprint 2025 is an informal initiative established in 2016 to give voice to a longstanding network of Infrastructure Professionals who saw an Administration led by a businessman President, without preconceived attitudes, as an opportunity to refocus what they believed to be an outmoded…Read More
Reducing red tape – Perspectives on the Trump – Musk kickoff – 1/29/2025
2025 LAW AND POLICY Blueprint 2025 2550 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037; T: 202-775-2025; Text: 303-656-3838 “Reinventing Government” — Blueprint 2025 Perspectives on the Trump/Musk Kickoff “Reinventing Government” is not a new idea. The Clinton-Gore Administration announced an initiative solabelled some years ago. Despite considerable fanfare, however, inertia prevailed at that time and the…Read More
Financing public infrastructure by leveraging private investments – 1/22/2025
2550 M Street NW Washington, DC 20005 jgarbuckle@2025lawandpolicy.com anand@sinfpi.org January 22, 2025 A Note from Blueprint 2025 and The Strategic Infrastructure Performance Institute Financing Public Infrastructure – The Trump I Precedent U.S. Infrastructure development policies historically have relied heavily on federal funding and federal-level oversight as the primary driving forces for development of needed public…Read More
Expediting and improving NEPA reviews – Summary of oral remarks – Continuing the Trump I Initiative – 1/20/2025
RE: Appalachian Hydrogen Hub – Phase 1 Virtual NEPA Scoping Meeting AGENCY: Department of Energy Docket No. DOE-HQ-2024-0082 This is a summary of the oral remarks presented by Blueprint 2025 at the above referenced scoping conference: The two main conclusions were: • Available digital and analytical technologies clearly can expedite and radically improve the environmental…Read More
Expediting and improving NEPA reviews – Blueprint 2025 Comments – 1/7/2025
January 7, 2025 Comments of Blueprint 2025 RE: Appalachian Hydrogen Hub – Phase 1 Virtual NEPA Scoping Meeting AGENCY: Department of Energy Docket No. DOE-HQ-2024-0082 The Blueprint 2025 (“BP2025”) initiative is a collaboration among infrastructure professionals, leading infrastructure development companies and public and private sector project managers, which supports plans and policies to restore the…Read More
Re: BOEM Request for Information and Interest — Commercial Leasing for Outer Continental Shelf Minerals Offshore the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (RFI)
Jan 6, 2025 Department of the Interior Agency/Docket Number: No. BOEM-2025-0351 Document Citation: 90 FR 58052 Document Number: 2025-2833 Re: BOEM Request for Information and Interest — Commercial Leasing for Outer Continental Shelf Minerals Offshore the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (RFI) Precis The following comments address the above-referenced notice to assess its conformity…Read More
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