A few more details: Gotta love Biz Journals, they do good work even if 99.9% of it seems like it doesn't apply to me: https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ne

A few more details: Gotta love Biz Journals, they do good work even if 99.9% of it seems like it doesn't apply to me: https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2018/04/11/nic-moves-a-step-closer-to-182m-contract-with-usda.html https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2018/04/11/nic-m... That points us to this: https://www.egov.com/what-we-do/outdoor/ https://www.egov.com/what-we-do/outdoor/ Broken link to original press release, maybe on archive.org? https://tylertech.irpass.com/Tyler-Technologies-Completes-Acquisition-of-NIC-4-21-2021 https://tylertech.irpass.com/Tyler-Technologies-Completes-Ac... "Tyler Technologies was founded by Joseph F. McKinney in 1966 as Saturn Industries after buying three government companies from Ling-Temco-Vought." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Technologies "This was a target procurement for us,” says Booz Allen’s Chief Innovation Officer Susan Penfield. “It represented the shift from Booz Allen’s management consulting heritage to the delivery of modern, large-scale digital platforms." https://www.fastcompany.com/90666188/innovating-in-the-great-outdoors https://www.fastcompany.com/90666188/innovating-in-the-great... BAH also provides Advana, the Hadoop / Spark platform that was initially developed to support the Pentagon's audit and is now the centerpiece of the Chief Digital and AI Office, so Ms. Penfield's quote above does seem consistent. And the general trend of trying to make better use of ways to work with the government is a general trend of their modernization efforts, e.g.: * https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3233377/secretary-of-defense-establishes-office-of-strategic-capital/ https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/323337... * https://aaf.dau.edu/aaf/contracting-cone/ https://aaf.dau.edu/aaf/contracting-cone/