Sadly, the Supreme Court just (unanimously) endorsed steps in the opposite direction.[1][2]

The oral arguments included outrageous statements from the usual suspects, and what sounded almost like intentionally obtuse statements about the value of open government. Alito chortled in his written opinion, that with respect to freedom of information laws in general: "There is no contention that the Nation’s unity foundered in their absence, or that it is suffering now because of the citizens-only FOIA provisions that several States have enacted".[3]

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/scotus-foils-foia-advo...

[2] http://www.opengovva.org/foi-blog-list/1680-my-public-record...

[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-says-st...

Definitely a step in the right direction, but when I worked on federal contracting I used a VM because surfing through the different departments was wading through a sea of expired SSL certificates.

In terms of basic IT management Uncle Sam is way behind the times.

Unfortunately, that would be hard due to myriad of local rules and regulations that may impede this. For example, in my county public property records are not accessible on the web because some law prohibits publishing some details on government officials, and since some government officials own property that means their details can be taken from there which means to access public records I have to physically drive to government building and ask clerks to give me the info verbally. Pretty annoying since it does not add privacy (the data is still public) but make me waste 2 hours for something that I could have done in 2 minutes.