By law, the federal IT shops have to listen to people like McGovern, and try (and fail) to build over-engineered uber-solutions that no one needs:

We also discussed why the Federal government who happens to be blessed with an act of Congress (The Clinger Cohen Act) that mandates Enterprise Architecture while the rest of us in corporate America have to run around selling it and pushing metrics still can't be successful. It was encouraging to know that the federal government has finally realized that they too can at least learn from corporations and are starting to recruit consulting firms from this demographic instead of always going with the same old ones that got them in the hole they were in.

The funny thing is, he almost recognizes the problem. Now if he'd just notice that the corporations that work like the feds tend to fail too....