The trouble is that the project managers, chiefs, and upper management are still feds. Most of them have been retired-in-place for decades and don't want to change anything, nor do they know what competition is, even if it hits them over the head.

I've seen hundreds of thousands get wasted due to force fitting an ill conceived, unwanted plan across an agency, when by all measures it should have been abandoned. Nobody cared enough. That's the name of the game in government: Inertia. Then pay big bucks to keep it hobbling along.

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