Yeah, I have to think that the only reason this story exists is because there was a very public humiliation for the Administration, and that the original project is business as usual 99% of the time. I highly doubt billions of gov't contracts are now being rerouted to "young people," and in fact (on a parallel track), the last 18F headline I saw was that they came out with a to-do list.
Changing the government contracting process is going to be the slowest part of this -- yep nothing drastic is different now that a few years ago. But the winds of change are in the air. The fine folks at USDS are working hard to fix this from the root. There was a recent California child welfare software project that was broken up into smaller pieces and served as a prototype of a contract that was made to appeal to modern firms, and reward sound development practices. Expect more of this to shift the playing field and lay the groundwork for competition to do the rest.
