One project was in conjunction with Howard University, geared to attracting students to come get a free education in exchange for learning Arabic or Chinese and later working for the government.
Another was building an online tool for CEO's to use to gauge their "readiness" for a flu pandemic.
Everyone I worked with was slow... stupid... and couldn't care less about cost or actual results. It was absolutely incredible how much waste there was relative to what I had been used to in the corporate world where cost and results do matter.
Guy I worked with,had joined the navy and was there for 10 years..He would tell me about the Times the high brass would come on board and the crew were told to toss machines etc into the sea..Some of it was brand new.Buuuut,if you had the items,your budget got cut..He said they were always getting more money for newer items.He joked if people could go to the bottom of the ocean there would be thousands of military hardware rotting away....