[geraldwhen]

Government software contracts are never meant to succeed. They are meant to burn as much cash as possible. Everyone I know who has worked in Arlington has the same story. Huge headcounts. Billable hours. Literal coked out VPs on yachts.

[majkinetor]

This is too simplistic view of the state of the affairs.

If that was so, countries would not work at all. There is always a service that needs to absolutelly work, or your government is fucked and lots of its people. For those projects you absolutelly need to hire those that will provide desired outcome without failure. Most of the services are not so crucial and in those you can have such failures without much of a problem, it even seems "good" sometimes as you must employ number of people to fix service mistakes constantly.

[pojzon]

If you dont see that the world is slowly falling apart due to corruption and incompetence its hard to even discuss.

It have not fallen apart „yet” because there are really hard working ppl with duty in their heart.