Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company

thomst writes "The Washington Post's Jerry Markon and Alice Crites report that 'The lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show. CGI Federal, the main Web site developer, entered the U.S. government market a decade ago when its parent company purchased American Management Systems, a Fairfax County contractor that was coming off a series of troubled projects. CGI moved into AMS's custom-made building off Interstate 66, changed the sign outside and kept the core of employees, who now populate the upper ranks of CGI Federal.'"

Software with a sixth sense?

[memebrain]

The only part of the article that stood out as unusual to me was "AMS-built computer systems sent Philadelphia school district paychecks to dead people". Now that is a seriously innovative program that can find and send a check to someone on the other side.

the experts in CGI scripting

[Anonymous Coward]

Just the technology for web sites that can scale to serve dozens of concurrent users.

Re:Software with a sixth sense?

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Heh. Here in Chicago we let the dead vote. Twice.

Pb instead of Au?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well if they choose a lead contractor instead of a gold contractor what are they supposed to expect?

Re:21st time is the charm!

[Anonymous Coward]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again.

That's what the contractor's loop iteration code looked like.