Agencies plan to generate demand and optimize processes for automation in 2021, among three other priorities announced by the federal Robotic Process Automation Community of Practice’s executive sponsor on Tuesday.

The RPA CoP consists of more than 1,000 employees from 65 agencies planning to encourage their components to invest resources in targeted automations after standardizing business processes, said Gerard Badorrek, who’s also the chief financial officer at the General Services Administration.

GSA has an “Eliminate, Optimize and Automate” program Badorrek wants the RPA CoP to expand governmentwide.

“One of the first pilots we looked at doing, we realized we could simply eliminate the process,” Badorrek said Tuesday during ACT-IAC‘s Digital Transformation Summit.

The RPA CoP has already released a Federal RPA Program Playbook and State of Federal RPA Report and is planning to issue an Eliminate, Optimize, Automate Handbook on process optimization later this year. Read On: