Should we, or should we not...

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

I suppose the general rule about bureaucracies pissing away money would apply to the bureaucracies that also populate large business organizations? Moreover, since much of the work of the DOD is contracted away to large comanies, the supposed inefficiency of bureaucracies would be compounded.

Regards,

D-Ray

That's not the worst of it. High tech weapons procurements are done via cost-plus contracting. We actually reward inefficiency. The more inefficient the contractor is, the greater the cost, and the greater the fee upon those costs (unless the Government can document and disallow costs for blatant inefficiency (which rarely happens, and if it does the contractor takes it to court to prove government complicity in their inefficiency).

High tech R&D weapons system procurement is a crazy expensive proposition.