[tvanantwerp]

I saw several people from 18F present at Code for America Summit the other week, and my understanding is that the regulatory overhead involved in launching new government tech services (something like 4000 pages of relevant regulations to comply with) is so large that it's usually a boondoggle. Part of what they are doing is building services with that regulatory compliance built into it, so agencies don't have to slog through all of that for every little thing they want built.