Scot Paltrow cover's this beat regularly http://www.reuters.com/journalists/scot-j-paltrow http://www.reuters.com/journalists/scot-j-paltrow https://en.wikipe

Scot Paltrow cover's this beat regularly http://www.reuters.com/journalists/scot-j-paltrow http://www.reuters.com/journalists/scot-j-paltrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scot_J._Paltrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scot_J._Paltrow All the services are at fault. Part of this no doubt has to do with the sheer amount of turnover in the military: people change jobs every two or three years, sometimes in one year. The civilians have more insight, but the active duty officers are virtually guaranteed to make errors in cost estimates for new programs and only shut down old programs after there are obvious overruns.