Too Long; Didn't Read
There is a lot of rightful complaining about inefficiency of government contracting. There exists no shortage of reasons why they’ll overpay for things: <a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/10/24/puerto-ricos-infrastructure-will-be-rebuilt-by-a-2-person-company-with-ties-to-ryan-zinke/" target="_blank">cronyism</a>, <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a9161907/ivanka-trump-white-house-office-insult/" target="_blank">nepotism</a>, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/jeff-sessions-is-in-charge-of-a-bribery-prosecution-involving-two-of-his-top-donors/" target="_blank">legalized corruption</a>… But why are the software <em>products</em> so terrible? Why don’t the <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/failed-government-it-the-mother-of-all-databases/995" title="Failed Government" target="_blank">$550 million dollar database initiatives</a> yield software that can do simple things like, uh, search the database?