[jimtorr]

Insight spends the whole article blaming contractors. I don't thinks so. Outside of a few bad eggs like AMS, contractors do good, honest work.

The real problems, I think, are with what the contractors are asked to do and how the new systems are used. Garbage in, Garbage out.

Attention should also be paid to bad program management at DOD. Too many system specifications are being written by bueracrats who don't know what they are doing.

They also have a habit of changing their minds in mid-program and making changes that double the cost and make the whole thing un-workable. California does the same thing.

[FormerLurker]

Too many system specifications are being written by bueracrats who don't know what they are doing.

I would imagine that a lot of that is deliberate.

[Spirited]

"They also have a habit of changing their minds in mid-program and making changes that double the cost and make the whole thing un-workable."


Yes, Yes and Yes. It's a sickness in all of government. Indecision is big and indecision is costly.

[StockAyatollah]

They also have a habit of changing their minds in mid-program and making changes that double the cost and make the whole thing un-workable. California does the same thing.

I worked on a simulation project that has had 4 (or maybe 5) software re-architectures. Hundreds of millions of dollars, and several years later and they are still not done. Government contracting means never having to be accountable.