I took a quick look at that GAO report. It clearly is not all that accurate. In a discussion of "old" systems, it mentions a system with "reported age 52 years" but it "runs on windows server 2008 and is programmed in Java". Yeah, right. I wonder if it's ignorance speaking, or an attempt to weasel more taxpayer money out of unsuspecting politicians. A number of other examples are similar. For example, a "56 year old" IRS system that actually runs on an IBM z series machine from 2010.
paul
