[mingus88]

Not to hold water for billionaires, but do you think that the U.S. government has the expertise to compete effectively with industry?

A decade ago, palantir was competing to win a contract for a system to compete directly with DCGS-A

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Common_Ground_Sy...

Read through this and it certainly paints a picture of our government spending a lot of money on a legacy tool that was less efficient. The army was trying to convert a system from 1991 to be “as easy to use as an iPad”. And the biggest complaint about palantir as a competitor is that is was “not sufficiently funded” to support a broader role.

Take a step back and I just don’t see how the Army can be expected to bring the UX of an iPad to the battlefield. That would be like asking Apple to send their SWEs to the trenches.