Comments on: DoD, Intel Mull Higher Rez Sat Shots

By: B

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:38:40 +0000

Maybe I’m missing you’re point (DensityDuck/Clyde) and I apologize if so, are you suggesting the Government internally develop and support these and other capabilities? If so, your comments don’t seem very “informed.” True, the acquisition process may be problematic, but commercial development of DoD capabilities IS in the best interest of our country. For decades, almost every significant military capability was conceived using a commercially developed, but often government funded, program. Vice versa, the scientific and civilian community consistently benefit from Pentagon supported research on programs such as space, lasers, medicine … (the list is endless).

Also, quite simply Defense contracting is about JOBS, “hundreds of thousands” of jobs. And, from my point of view (GI with 18 years of current military service), often jobs I DON’T want to do.

By: clyde

clyde — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:59:17 +0000

I agree with DensityDuck.

I’ve been in the DoD civilian world for 16 years, and acquistions is a mess.

But caving into contractors even worse.

They have NO familiarization with the processes or objectives, other than to make money-it’s Capitalism, at it’s worst-death for a buck.

Death has to mean somehing, more than a TDY Hotel room and a quick trip to the shop floor –just enough time to get a powerpoint worth 2 corporate kudos and a contract.

Up Yours!

If the DoD can’t fix its own acquisition problems, then maybe we ought to contract war out to the SPETNAZ, or somebody, anybody, who will do it right.

But if we can’t fix it, then we deserve to lose, and I’ll be G*7 Da&*ed if some freakin’ contractor is going home to T-bones because of it!!!!!!

And then hit the enemy with “the latest thing”

By: Niche Marketing for Newbies

Niche Marketing for Newbies — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:00:21 +0000

You’ve given me some useful insights — thanks!

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:50:03 +0000

This is very much in keeping with what I see as a movement in the DoD to get rid of government procurement entirely. The thinking is that the process is so fundamentally broken that the only way to get anything is to “rent” commercial capability–or to convince commercial developers to proceed in a direction that’s beneficial to DoD interests, i.e. Iridium Next.