If anyone wants to help fix the problem, I suggest the newly formed USDS. There are a lot of ex-Google people involved trying to help clean up and secure IT inf

If anyone wants to help fix the problem, I suggest the newly formed USDS. There are a lot of ex-Google people involved trying to help clean up and secure IT infrastructure in the Government. I spoke with someone who did a short stint with them and it sounds like they're actually being empowered to fix things. https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-service/story https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser... Mike Dickerson gave a really good in-depth talk at Google about his work cleaning up the healthcare.gov project. The Time article lacks many of the technical details but is still pretty good. Sorry, all I can find is a link to the PDF. https://blog.newrelic.com/wp-content/uploads/80893.pdf https://blog.newrelic.com/wp-content/uploads/80893.pdf From talking to people who've worked in the USDS, the problem doesn't appear to be lack of capable people, or lack of funds. The problem seems to be in the structure of how projects are bid and executed. The bad news is the problem is universal. The good news it's fixable ... it's just going to take a lot of work by a lot of smart and determined people. Sign up and go fix it.