This is at least in part inspired by the (for the most part) success of the UK cabinet office's Government Digital Services. Despite years of multi billion pou

This is at least in part inspired by the (for the most part) success of the UK cabinet office's Government Digital Services. Despite years of multi billion pound IT projects at the hands of Microsoft, HP, Crapita etc going over budget and delivering poor results late, the small internal team have produced some very modern, very successful web services. They even had a GitHub and PivitolTracker board publicly available if I recall. So yeah, whether it can resist being outsourced and off shored is one thing, but with the right people (sounds good so far!) I wouldn't write it off as another government IT disaster just yet.