The federal government has made an immense investment in software that is never seen or used by the public that has huge potential for public use.
The Pacific Northwest National Labs developed a piece of software (formerly called SPIRE, Starline, and other names) that is used primarily for intelligence work.
This software is knowledge software. It analyzes documents for content and determines similarity (via covariant matrices) and displays this in graphical format - making it vastly easier to find relevant documents/pages and grouping relevant documents.
The government should use this and other government developed software to help the public find the important information they seek in the mountain of federal information.
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Also see anti-plagiarism software developed by Harold ("Skip") Garner at Southwest Medical Inst. (Dallas).