A great guy but no more informed than what you’ll find in VFW hall across the country.
Is Musk and the DOGE able to audit the Pentagon without some DoD or Congressional authorization?
These audits will never be 100% accurate and there are many reasons why. Most of them are not sinister or entail theft or waste. For example - the military owns $100,000,000 (AMDF PRICE) of widgets that are old (legacy) but they have a way to convert these old widgets to new model fidgets. The military wants the fidgets but doesn’t really need the widgets anymore and new fidgets cost a lot to buy. Instead the military buys modification kits for the widgets that turns them into fidgets and sends them to a depot to be converted, that is a good use of taxpayer money. But if the AMDF PRICE of a fidget is less than a widget, an auditor will see a problem. Say the newer fidget’s AMDF PRICE is half of what the older widget was, now you took $100,000,000 worth of widgets and turned them into $50,000,000 of fidgets. You have the same total number of fidgets as you had widgets, and your old widgets are now up to spec fidgets but an auditor is going to think you lost $50,000,000 worth of stock along the way in addition to the cost of the Mod Kits you bought and the labor it cost to do the conversion.
In reality you extended the life of a weapon system and saved the taxpayer money by not buying new fidgets but on paper it looks like you’ve lost millions of dollars.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys -— P.J. O’Rourke
They “failed better” than the last six times ... DEI in action.
You need to reign in government regulations. That’s the main problem and then you need to stop the insanity of the acquisition process which is a complete disaster. Last but not least is build the product you need, not new ideas and requirements every 18 to 36 months based on personel turnover.
It’s easy to fix, it’s hard to make the change.
I have a feeling that Trump will get it done well before 2028.
Gotta hide the “UAP” research somewhere...