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How the Government Spends 50 Billion on Software Every Year
The US federal government spends over $50 billion annually on software licensing and IT services, yet a 2024 GAO report found that agencies waste an estimated 30 percent of that on unused or underused licenses. This episode digs into why the world's largest buyer of software can't manage its subscriptions, how a single NASA project lost millions on Oracle licenses nobody used, and what a proposed 'software inventory' mandate might actually fix. Lucas and Luna walk through the incentives that keep procurement broken and ask whether the government will ever buy software the…
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