Software at a Standstill: The Budget Rule Keeping Washington in the Digital Dark Ages

Imagine a government agency still running its core operations on a punch-card system. Absurd? Not quite. The federal bureaucracy may not literally hum with the rhythms of 1970s mainframes, but it still lives in their shadow. The culprit is not a lack of engineering talent, political will, or patriotic ingenuity. It is, rather, a budgeting practice so an…