Software firms/outside contractors made the NASA PROJECTS work.
The CIO commands Idiot Bureaucracies and not the Corporations that builds the Computer systems.
It’ll be a good thing if Obama’s brash young Indian geek encounters some resistance if you ask me.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/vivek-kundra-federal-cio-in-hi.html
“We look at federal IT spending, the federal government is the largest single buyer of technology in the world at $71 billions dollars annually. Going through, as the president and director Orszag promised, going through line item by line item looking at the budget and ensuring that those resources are spent effectively and that we hold agencies accountable for how that money is spent is going to be a big part of my role here, and secondly, I’m going to be working very closely with all federal CIOs in terms of the agency level to ensure that they are advancing an agenda that embraces open government....we also want to focus on how do we look at the backend system, whether that is in the Department of Defense or Health and Human Services, and ensure that we’re having a wholistic view of [information technology] and not just focusing on e-government.
One example is the National Institute of Health working with other world bodies when they published the Human Genome Project data online. What that did is it created an entire revolution in personalized medicine where you ended up having over 500 drugs that were created and that are in the pipeline coming into the FDA. Second, is what happened in the geospatial community when the defense department decided to release data around satellites you created this GPS revolution where now you could go to your local car rental company and get a GPS device or your iPhone and get directions.
In the same way, in the same spirit, there is a lot of data that the federal government has and what we need to do is, we need to make sure that all that data that is not private that is not restricted for national security reasons can be made public.