The US Government - bigger and better information security?

For years the US Government has shown little progress in its cybersecurity efforts. It has produced a plethora of documents-the "Rainbow Series," Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directives, agency-specific orders and handbooks, and so forth, as well as special positions, committees, councils, and commissions changed with investigating and fixing security problems. The General Accounting Office (GAO), which audits federal systems, often produces scathing findings. But the actual level of security within US Government systems and networks has not changed much over time. Attackers have historically been able to freely prey on US Government systems; this is still very much true.