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To: hardspunned

Our whole weapon system acquisition paradigm is a bag of crap. Everything costs too much, takes too long, and fails to meet requirements. But the Military-Industrial Complex makes big bucks, and that’s what counts.


3 posted on 02/22/2023 2:29:54 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: ClearCase_guy

No. It is the 10% that counts.


36 posted on 02/22/2023 3:04:23 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: ClearCase_guy
Our whole weapon system acquisition paradigm is a bag of crap.

Pretty sure it was designed by the KGB during McNamara's tenure. It's absolutely insane. The core competency of defense contractors is strategic incompetence because it maximizes profits for them.

112 posted on 02/22/2023 8:32:34 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: ClearCase_guy
Our whole weapon system acquisition paradigm is a bag of crap. Everything costs too much, takes too long, and fails to meet requirements. But the Military-Industrial Complex makes big bucks, and that’s what counts.

Agree totally.

114 posted on 02/22/2023 9:02:34 PM PST by JHL (Ezekiel 18:31-32)
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