Many actually are hired into ongoing multi-year developmental projects.
You should check on how Department of Defense works sometime. They have an awful lot of systems analysts, computer systems designers, logistics personnel, etc. AS WELL AS war planners, spending their careers "doing stuff" (much of it too secret for you to hear about).
Total BS.
Oh, very true. Long term projects that nearly invariably miss their deadlines and are massively over budget (with little or no accountability).
You should check on how Department of Defense works sometime.
The Dept of Defense is huge but it is not the whole of the Federal Government.
I know of a half dozen people who left the private sector to get out of the rat race and in to a secure government job.