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The GAO just reported that some of the Treasury's most critical systems still run on COBOL, kept alive by a workforce whose average age is now eligible for Social Security and, at the same time, is shrinking every year through retirement. The modernization programs meant to fix this are years in and mostly undocumented. This is what vendor capture looks like in practice: decades of contracts that ultimately only produced reports about modernization vs the actual modernized systems themselves. The agencies that get out from under this weight won't be the ones who sign one more integrator. They'll be the ones who can finally see, test, and change the code that runs the country. We're helping one such organization do this at scale. It's some of the most exciting work we've taken on at 8090. Learn more here: https://t.co/fkfTXgcI8c