I used to be a government contractor so I am well aware of the challenges of integrating the various systems. The challenges are almost never technical I mean c

I used to be a government contractor so I am well aware of the challenges of integrating the various systems. The challenges are almost never technical I mean consider your argument here you essentially have a system connecting multiple databases that needs to retrieve and reformat the data then store it again. That process is not complex even at the scale they are doing it ( 8 Million registrants, even 350 Million wouldn't be a problem for most database systems ) Yes documentation is always lacking and there is some reverse engineering that needs to be done, and yes there will always be some stupid wrinkle in the process, but this is a well understood problem and claiming its a challenge due to "Legacy Systems" is just a way of justifying the over 100% overhead that the government runs.