As someone who's done DoD contracting for many years working for different agencies... I have to agree with parent. The amount of competent people I ran into, on the government and contractor side, could be counted on a single hand. I've reported and seen so many security holes that were never fixed it's ridiculous. I'd like to imagine the work done by our group was top notch but even if it objectively is it's rare to work on any DoD project without 10+ contractors all with varying levels of competence.