The question is: Can he convince others in government that, as another post on the HN front page says right now, we should replace middle management with APIs?
[0] https://github.com/18F/api-standards
[1] https://github.com/18F/jekyll_pages_api
[2] https://github.com/18F/API-All-the-X and http://18f.github.io/API-All-the-X/
[3] https://github.com/18F/api.data.gov
[4] https://github.com/18F/fbopen
[5] https://github.com/18f/?query=api etc, etc
But then I don't think that should be a goal. (Good) middle management is precisely what Washington needs more of.
[1] The author would be well advised reading Peopleware, and understanding that middle management is often (usually?) an exception handling layer that handles the boundary between systems.