The Federal government computers & software are in such bad shape that they often cannot verify that payments are not fraud, waste or abuse! That’s why the government can’t pass basic audits. They often LITERALLY don’t know where your tax dollars went. It’s insane. My preferred title in the new administration is Volunteer IT Consultant. Need to fix the IT infrastructure in order to make government work. This is a grind & hardly glorious, but we can’t make government efficient & fix the deficit if the computers don’t work.
Want to know the terrifying part?
I work in financial information systems.
Their solution to this is to train an AI that’s going to rewrite all of that old legacy code into a more modern programming language (this is for a major bank) because re-writing it manually would be “too much work”.