[Iftheshoefits]

Actually, it probably can't, at least in most of the cases where it would matter. The President can get the ball rolling in some of those cases, but in others there may actually be an act of Congress required, or other bureaucratic hoops to jump through.

The President is not the equivalent of the CEO of a private corporation. And like so many of the things around technology in government the last couple of years, this one is probably more for show than anything else.