Doesn’t surprise me. The 2000 Census was the first one to be performed by the bureau, althoigh the Navy QA offices at the contractors’ facilities obtained desktop computers in 1993.
Btw, the Census had a contract with Canada for Wordperfect!
Canada is at the epicenter of all of this via the Canadian IT contractor CGI.
These are the same wonderful folks who brought you the Obamacare Portal that crashed and burned right out of the box. Their business model appears to be to land big government contracts through shady relationships and kickbacks, and then milk them for every available billable hour without actually producing anything.
They have a knack for taking Affirmative Action hires with zero IT background and presto-chango turning them into Project Managers.