I guess I'm thinking less about the state of the technology deployment (which will always be in some sort of play), and more about the political/bureaucratic or

I guess I'm thinking less about the state of the technology deployment (which will always be in some sort of play), and more about the political/bureaucratic organizations within the government and their focus. It feels, from a very, very outside position, that the gov't (NSA, et al) used to put more resources on systematically figuring out how to move defensive side work forward. Maybe the orgs that used to be tasked with that were reorged or demphasized, I don't really know.