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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by woobar on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:56PM (#16378248)
Nowhere it says that these slots were created to modernize software. These 40 slots are total amount of people (out of 80K employees) that could be paid above government rates.

These slots were used to fill 168 positions over the 15 years.[1]

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-51.htm

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