Quote Originally Posted by pjmunson View Post
...that the bloating of costs due to the screwed-up nature of our acquisitions bureaucracy, plus the fact that we've essentially let the contractors take over the job of telling us what we need...
Seems to me the former leads to the latter. Both failures ably and forcibly supported by our superb Congress.

The emasculated the former to to stop backbiting and evading of Congressional preferences They assisted DoD in shutting down the P&C folks by passing some really dumb laws and requiring a 'compliance' bureaucracy that would be hilarious in its lack of value if it weren't sad.

They really like contractors -- contractors are BIG campaign contributors and many of them hire Union workers, a twofer for the Congroids.

There's plenty of blame in this for many -- including a number of folks in uniform and DoD civilians, appointed and career. The industry is reacting to the people it sells to. Contractors are subject to uniformed scrutiny...