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Disclaimer: At my previous job, I was several degrees disconnected from SCA/radio contracts (worked on test sets for those radio systems). Being over budget, l
by lfowles 9y ago
Disclaimer: At my previous job, I was several degrees disconnected from SCA/radio contracts (worked on test sets for those radio systems).
Being over budget, late, and not meeting requirements seems to be an infectious quality. However, it's not like many companies are set up to deal with winning these contracts. Do you choose the company that's more likely to have a more complete product but possibly be unable to support it in a couple of years? Or the one that can do decades of support (including replacing obsoleted hardware) but has a reputation for being late, overbudget, and half done?
- Jtsummers 9y agoThis is a big issue. There are only a few companies operating in this specific field. You aren't going to find any startups interested in it because making a barebones radio is a multiyear process (to hit all the requirements laid on them from software capabilities to hardware durability). The established players also have a tendency to layoff or move the experienced engineers after a major update and leave only cheap, inexperienced engineers in their place. So the next big cycle will have mostly people who don't know what they're doing accepting changes that cannot actually be done (in time or budget, if at all) but they don't know better.
- ambrice 9y agoI don't think it's "you aren't going to find any startups interested" as much as "you aren't going to find DoD interested in trusting startups to be around". No one gets fired for giving a billion dollar contract to General Dynamics.