[canofbars]

Because governments outsource everything possible and end up with no persistent talent that really understands whats going on so you end up spending all the money on interfacing with contractors.

[petarb]

What if the government had an internal technology division to build things like this

[ric2b]

Nah, there are more important things like spaceforce /s

[aweiland]

They can't afford to get the talent on the GS schedule.