Start with the $300 million spent over the past six years by the Social Security Administration on a disability-claim filing system that remains unfinished. Then check out the FBI’s failed Virtual Case File case-management initiative that had burnt through $600 million before being replaced by the equally troubled Sentinel system, as Jason Bloomberg explains in an August 22, 2012, CIO article.
But the poster child of dysfunctional government app development is HealthCare.gov., which Park was brought in to save after its spectacularly failed launch in October 2013. For their $300 million investment, U.S. taxpayers got a site that took eight seconds to respond to a mouse click and crashed so often that not one of the millions of people visiting the site on its first day of operation was able to complete an application.
Read the entire article at http://gomorpheus.com/blog/2014-09-18-can-a-silicon-valley-cto-save-government-software-from-itself
