Posted on 06/18/2023 2:27:37 PM PDT by Chode
Long before equipment reaches the front, it must first be ordered, designed, produced and fielded.
This is a process that nations have been going through for centuries. That doesn't mean they're always good at it.
With every year that passes it seems that military equipment becomes more expensive, delivery schedules blow out more, and failures mount.
Sometimes the answer may be corruption - but sometimes it's just a case of mistakes being made and things going wrong.
In this video I want to have a look at some reasons why...
Didn’t watch the video yet, but I bet it boils down to poor project management.
Poor project management due to profiteering.
Micromanagement by the customer (government) and moving the goalposts. Idiot regulations too.
Big Guy’s cut figures in...
‘Didn’t watch the video yet, but I bet it boils down to poor project management.”
FAR WORSE than that. At least poor management is fixable, the problem here is SHEER ARROGANCE of the people who spent their entire lives HATING the military and thus never taking seriously the warnings given to them by the military, such as relying on our two biggest enemies for raw materials and piece parts, and having an industrial base likely now smaller than Shanghai, much less all of China...and not being able to even keep up with Russia, as Russia knew that “The End of History” was NOT here, and that they may well need to ramp up and fight.
For the US, it was about getting Drag Queens and Groomers to the front lines...and so now we pay, BIG TIME.
A simply lesson SHOULD be learned here, but won’t be, which is NOT to start a World War (as we may well be doing), unless you’re actually prepared to fight it.
that is why they stoke the fires of war.
and political motivation usually involves some side deal with commodities like Ukraine (ex: Biden/Burisma);(Bush/Sadaam)
A large part of the country cannot read.
No. You are wrong. It is due to the world’s greatest project management practiced by the world’s greatest project management specialists and is designed to make sure that nothing is done that deviats from what was stated as the requirements. The problem is that it is horribly expensive and deals poorly with things that go wrong or things that turn out differently than you thought. We have long forgotten how new things are actually developed you know, like Goddard and the rocket or the Wright Brothers, or Kelly Johnson and the SR71 or Elong Musk and the Falcon rocket, or almost anthing else that had to be invented.
It’s managerialism - bureaucracy and control and tracking over getting real work done, testing and experimenting and fixing and prototyping until you have something that works and you can sell.
This is how large organization like the government do things!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/nasas-new-mission-and-the-cult-of-management-155873900/#:~:text=Working%20for%20NASA%20means%20being%20involved%20in%20the,evident%20as%20one%20ascends%20the%20chain%20of%20command.
Hmmmm.... well, obviously the Gov needs to go Agile then! That’ll be the cure for their rigid requirements problem.
Well, there are some efforts, but on the whole the managerialistic bureaucracy resists with everything at their disposal including DEI training.
Boy is that outmoded. Now you hold endless meetings to figure out how to validate the requirements for the shovle, including the certification plan. Acquiring the shuttle is four project steps off. Establishing the shovling project, training the shovler and using the shovel by the shoveler to accomplish some task belongs to several seperate orgs, acquisition, plans, doctrine, basic training, specialization training, shovel technical school, and operations.
Sounds like you’ve been there!
As I have.
Some of our best procurement came from foreigners.
yer ALL right...
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