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Contracting instead of developing in-house capabilities is completely destroying the DoD and American military effectiveness. The corruption around that is posing a real, impactful threat to national security.

Fuck these people and their "free market" lies as a cover for outright theft of public funds.

It's not just in the cyber domain that this is a problem, but the cyber domain is one in which the corner-cutting, half-assed nature of the corruption is most visible because the damage is most easily exploited by foreign powers.

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Was selling to the DoD before and agree with you. We just sold a product but interacted with contractors and various agencies. It's a hot mess, the corruption, nepotism, stuff like request for quotes for a project and specs made to meet exactly only one vendor and nobody else and so on.