Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 11:08:18 -0400, -hh wrote:

I had to listen to a PMP rant all weekend about how profoundly stupid of
a plan this is from DOGE, especially the "in 5 months" claim.  Overall,
it sounds like another example of a "contract out to Elon" attempt,
where they'll of course fail to meet any milestones, plus they'll skip
any high quality testing, and dump whatever human overrides onto the
already slashed staff to try to deal with while they claim "Victory!".
 
Total bullshit.

Agreed on the five months. However I believe they started a project to
update the systems in 2016 or 2017 and abandoned it to chase other
squirrels in 2020. Bureaucracies are pain avoidant. How do you get them to
do what has to be done over a span of administrations?

https://dailycaller.com/2016/03/17/interior-dept-spent-15-million-on-a-
crime-database-that-doesnt-work/

Happily I don't have to deal with IMARS any more but recent years it
wasn't any smoother than it was in 2016 when the article was written.
NIBRS, the DOJ's attempt to update the UCR hasn't went well either. Both
of these have been in the works for a decade or more.

Part of the problem is giving the contracts to the usual suspects who are
too big to fail.

https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2014-08-04-Lockheed-Martin-Wins-90-
Million-Metropolitan-Police-Service-Contract

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500278605/Met-Police-cancels-command-
and-control-system-contract-with-Northrop-Grumman

It's not only the US. Northrup-Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Unisys, and
others spread their joy worldwide.

After the F-35 debacle Boeing got the F-47 contract. I can't wait to see
how that one goes. Boeing seems to have problems producing planes that can
fly lately but they are not without other costly fails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBInet

Year after year, decade after decade, the US government pisses away money
of failures by the same companies.