Okay, call it a dark, dark joke, but don’t be surprised. Not at this point. The Washington Post reports today that the lead contractor on the now infamous Obamacare website HealthCare.gov “is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers.” Whatta hire for the launching of the project that, not so long ago, just about everyone was still proclaiming the Obama administration’s sole “achievement.” How could anything have gone wrong? Washington continues in its “if-it-doesn’t-work-don’t-fix-it” moment as the Obama presidency seems to be imploding before our eyes, while Congress is incapable of any act that matters. It’s GovernmentCan’tDoIt all the way. Tom “Perhaps the biggest federal failure was the project for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which manages the 401(k) accounts of 4.6 million former and current federal employees. With about $100 billion in investments at the time, it was one of the world’s largest defined-contribution benefit plans. “In 1997, AMS signed a $30 million contract to update the board’s archaic computer system. Four years later, with projected costs rising to $90 million, AMS was terminated. The company never delivered a workable system, according to a report by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. “The report found that AMS had repeatedly missed its own deadlines, grossly overbilled travel expenses for its staff members and drafted far more software code than needed. “‘The code failed system tests, and attempts to fix the errors caused further delays and increased costs,’ said the report, which also faulted the thrift board for insufficient oversight. It was one of three reviews that criticized AMS for substandard work, along with reports by the Defense Contract Management Agency and a private firm, Integrated Benefit Solutions, hired by the thrift board to review the project.” washingtonpost/politics/health-care-web-sites-lead-contractor-employs-executives-from-troubled-it-company/2013/11/15/6e107e2e-487a-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:07:06 +0000
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