I live about three hours away from D.C. and the suburbs where much of the government contracting takes place, and I'm going to make an offer that doesn't throw more of the tax-payer's money into the fire.

I will, at my own expense drive to D.C. and spend two days of my vacation evaluating the architecture of the failing system, and spot check the source code quality. Additionally, I'll add the project to my Sonar source code quality analyzer so that there's a focus on what code isn't up to industry standards and which sections should be addressed first.

It's still astounding to me that we spent $700M on such a pathetic LITTLE system ... there simply isn't that much code to write. If there are others who'd like to show the government how it should be done, I'd be happy to start an open-source project to rewrite the whole project, as well as a CI/CT/CD/CM system to make sure that the code is maintainable, that changes are delivered in a reasonable amount of time and that servers are constructed and clustered in a consistent way.

This really isn't rocket science (and it's a good thing ... there would have been deaths).

EDIT: If someone in the government a) reads my offer and b) is willing to let "the industry" voluntarily help, you can contact me via the e-mail address on my profile page.