Short term: Assuming it can scale, and that many of the problems result from various timeouts (e.g. I recall one report on a 5 - 7 second timeout for a IRS dat

Short term: Assuming it can scale, and that many of the problems result from various timeouts (e.g. I recall one report on a 5 - 7 second timeout for a IRS data request), then throw hardware at it. Get out the checkbook, call up Amazon, or whomever, get them to physically segregate a collection of machines, and ramp up. Long term: Take it in-house. Enough of this contractor bullshit. The Government is known to have some effective auditing agencies. Turn them loose on the resulting program. Also: First make it work. Then make it pretty. What are the American people most going to notice? Whether it fucking works.