The Pentagon’s procurement system is so broken they are calling on Watson

Re:The Pentagon’s procurement system is so broken they are c... by brightball on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:01PM (#11314036)

Here's something fun to digest.

> “While our acquisition system is very complex, it is document based. . .It’s unreasonable to expect that a single individual or even a group of individuals to be able to fully understand all of the relevant documents to answer a specific question.”

Total pages: 1,897 pages

Total pages in tax code: 16,845 pages

Total pages in Obamacare: 11,000 pages

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Re:The Pentagon’s procurement system is so broken they are c... by HillRat on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:21PM (#11314188)

The key difference is that the tax code and the ACA cover very large surface areas of which only a subset applies to any one player. FAR is largely applicable to any vendor, regardless of contract size, and requires onerous documentation at every step.

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