Quote:I used to work for a firm in DC that tracked government spending in the IT vertical.  Yes, this is absurdly wasteful.  Absurd.  But, the layman has no clue just how much waste there is.  The entire procurement process invites waste and is long overdue for an overhaul.  Back in roughly 2006, DHS renewed a government initiative (anti-terrorist) to identify people coming across our borders.  This was a multi-billion dollar effort.  After three years, they were able to successfully identify less than 3% of these people with absolute certainty.  And it was renewed for another multiyear, multi-billion dollar project despite a 97% failure rate.  This is just one example.  There are an endless number of these.

 

Really it leaves one wondering why the federal government doesn't simply have its own technology department that implements the web services without need for overpaid contractors.

 

If you want to solve government pork issues bring development in house and expand the government's role so it can create and maintain its own web presence instead of paying massive corporations massive amounts of money with no oversight.

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