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The DoD budget exceeds Google's market cap, and their research budget exceeds Google's annual revenue.
by killjoywashere 8y ago
The DoD budget exceeds Google's market cap, and their research budget exceeds Google's annual revenue.
- ProAm 8y agoBut they dont spend it nearly as efficiently. Gov is slow and bloated. It's why government contracts are so coveted, lots of money, long term contracts, overages are just part of life.
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- mips_avatar 8y agoOk but if 200 planes need to be upgraded so that they don't get shot down by ____ new weapon. It's not possible to build an ASIC for this, so you're probably looking at doing something on an FPGA. You need a few FPGA hardware engineers, electrical engineers, software engineers. Even if the project only takes a year to design, build, and test. And then you spend an extra 6 months because xilinx's fpga tools basically don't work. You've got minimum $1 million dollars in salary, and that's not including the facility, materials, and testing costs. Even if the program costs $20 million, if it saves 40 planes, you can't tell a dead airmen's family that their loved ones life wasn't worth $500,000.
- woolvalley 8y agoAmerica does that all the time with it's poor people.
- lostlogin 8y agoAnd it’s soldiers. The IED situation took a long time to be addressed with more suitable equipment. Not that the U.K. did any better.
- ggg9990 8y agoThat’s nuts, they could buy one Google per year. In five years they could own all the big tech companies.
- garmaine 8y agoWhy is thang nuts? Tech industry is peanuts.