[nir]

$1.5T isn't a solution, it's the problem. Hackers succeed because they have scant resources, and defense contractors fail because they have nearly unlimited ones.

Huge budget => massive feature creep => massive manpower => huge overhead, extremely difficult communication/sync => failure to meet deadlines.

[dangoldin]

You're right. But spread that out across thousands of small teams and I'm sure the outcome would be greater than what we're seeing here. Having some competition among teams would also help - the big defense contractors aren't so much competing against each other as milking the government.