You might consider your screen name an admonition to listen to those who’ve BTDT before grabbing your paint bucket and broad brush. The MIC has certainly not crowned itself in glory on many projects (F-35, for example) but history tells us it didn’t start yesterday. When Harry Truman was still a senator from MO, he had a committee looking into excessive costs while WW2 was still raging on battlefields around the world.
As the other posters noted, the government acquisition process often brings these excess costs on through poor specifications and other processes that give suppliers little incentive to improve the process.
My point exactly. Where do you think that flowdown originates?
I have friends in the industry. I’m not blind to how it works.