This has been my experience as well through contracts with the government. To further this, there is also no incentive and funds to modernize an already existi

This has been my experience as well through contracts with the government. To further this, there is also no incentive and funds to modernize an already existing product. If it was written in Java 6 using J2EE, it’s going to continue to be that until it dies. Folks I worked with also didn’t care to up skill or learn new ways of doing things because the incentive wasn’t there. Their cost was fixed, their price was fixed, their profit was fixed. They will do the bare minimum to satisfy the contract.