And not just thievery, I searched the article and found nothing about secret programs. "consequences for failure" isn't the problem, the real problem is "consequences for success"
No tinfoil hat stuff needed, merely look at history, opening the books of the Manhattan project or area 51 in the stealth fighter years would not have been very wise. I suspect as a former .mil guy that a lot more money disappears into stuff like that, than is officially admitted, or is lost to corruption.
If you think a simple IT project is expensive when .mil does it, doing anything secretly insta-quadruples the cost if not more.
No tinfoil hat stuff needed, merely look at history, opening the books of the Manhattan project or area 51 in the stealth fighter years would not have been very wise. I suspect as a former .mil guy that a lot more money disappears into stuff like that, than is officially admitted, or is lost to corruption.
If you think a simple IT project is expensive when .mil does it, doing anything secretly insta-quadruples the cost if not more.