To be fair, the CTO for Obama for America (Harper Reed) is one smart cookie. I have much respect. This is not your typical goverment waste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Reed
It would appear so! Why then is Verizon Enterprise Solutions getting called in to "save the day" with Healthcare.gov?
And this attitude is where burnout, dependency, and single points of failure come from. And also why we have so much power invested in the central executive.