Legacy government software systems are too expensive and slow to modernize without specialized expertise

Government agencies are struggling to modernize decades-old software systems that are costly to maintain, difficult to integrate with modern tools, and lack the technical expertise in-house to execute modernization efficiently. The DoD is paying $12.6M to external contractors because they lack the internal capability, processes, and tools to handle large-scale software modernization themselves, forcing them into expensive, time-consuming vendor relationships.