If government’s slow, change-resistant technology procurement processes mean that it is five or six years behind the private sector, the three or four exponential generations of Moore’s Law that have passed will make its capabilities ten times worse. And in classic “news from the future” style, that’s exactly what we see. Amazon can deliver packages within hours of your order; Google can tell you in near-real time that there’s an accident up ahead and to take a different route. Yet the VA takes eighteen months just to determine whether discharged soldiers are eligible for benefits.
