Posted on 10/29/2017 6:04:26 AM PDT by Elderberry
NASA is much worse at requirements definition and non-value added oversight than DOD has ever been.
Oh, that makes all the difference! Just a tad higher on the chain.
FCS was one of the most disgraceful boondoggles in government history. Wish more people were aware of this fiasco.
Politics is one thing, but as Griffin points out the absolutely broken acquisition process is another. The main purpose of the acquisition organization these days is to hire feds and inside the swamp support service contractors - and let’s be clear - these are guys who push paper and make viewgraphs to and for admirals and generals. They invent nothing, they design nothing and they build nothing. They are just swamp slime that decompose taxpayer dollars and turn it into noxious swamp effluent.
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