Re:DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses
by caseysoftware on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:22PM
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> I would really like to see a move toward purpose built systems and actually software engineering.
We've tried bespoke systems for all sorts of components. That's how we end up with multi-billion, multi-year sole source contracts where $beltwaybandit prints money and it takes multiple years to support now-common functionality/capabilities because it wasn't in the initial meticulously-specified, waterfall-driven design plan enshrined in the contract 5 years ago. And that contract itself was an extension to an extension to an extension from a contract a decade before that.
We've tried bespoke systems for all sorts of components. That's how we end up with multi-billion, multi-year sole source contracts where $beltwaybandit prints money and it takes multiple years to support now-common functionality/capabilities because it wasn't in the initial meticulously-specified, waterfall-driven design plan enshrined in the contract 5 years ago. And that contract itself was an extension to an extension to an extension from a contract a decade before that.
Excuse me, I'm having flashbacks now.