It's there for reasons but the reasons are mostly not that good. The big problem is that these projects are managed by people who aren't technical, who have ne

It's there for reasons but the reasons are mostly not that good. The big problem is that these projects are managed by people who aren't technical, who have never built anything concrete and whose gulf of cultural experience between manager and worker is enormous. In the rest of the world this is being fixed by programmers drifting out of the enterprise and into dedicated software firms. The non-technical people in "the business" get to issue RFPs, watch slide shows and be in meetings: where they like to be. They cut a cheque and get a system they know works, they know what it does, it has a predictable price, it's a web app so it bypasses their terrible IT department. The technical people get to work for each other and bosses who are themselves former programmers, so they don't get asked every five minutes to draw Gantt charts with to-the-day ticket time estimates. Everyone is happy. That hasn't really happened with government, probably because there are so few of them. Government IT in a box is a great idea though.