[kartan]

It all depends how much politics are involved, or how much public workers can freely do their jobs:

https://www.nasa.gov/ http://www.darpa.mil/

And is Healthcare.gov developed by the government or just bough to an external company? It just an observation, I don't know if Healthcare.gov is a good or bad technology.

[leakybit]

Development is contracted out, it usually go along the lines:

Budget $1 Billion

1. Large government contractors: keep $400 million, outsource all work to->

2. Other government contractors: keep $200 million, outsource all work to->

3. Third party companies: keep $100 million, outsource all work to-->

4. ....

5 .....

..

10. Bangladesh code farm does all coding for $10 million.

[foota]

I believe it was one of the first projects of the digital service. (https://www.usds.gov/)

[vertex-four]

Not quite. It was designed by a contractor, developed by several others, and once it was released to the public and shown to be dreadful, another contractor was put in charge of fixing it. It's still primarily developed by contract to this day.

The first head of the USDS was involved in coordinating the fixing of Healthcare.gov, though.

[foota]

That's probably what I was thinking about, thanks.