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Among other reasons, because the private sector sucks at it.

The latest SHA3 was determined in a competition amongst private sector contestants, won by Keccak. Schneier himself put up a candidate - Skein.

Edit: Then there's TrustedBSD (as opposed to SELinux)

SHA3 was a contest run by NIST, known to its friends by its other name, NSA.