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Here's the scale of problem the government deals with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkcrtvN60s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkcrtvN60s That's an exper
by killjoywashere 8y ago
Here's the scale of problem the government deals with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkcrtvN60s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkcrtvN60s
That's an experimental YF-22A crashing due to a software glitch. That's a $300-400M hand-crafted state-of-the-art-on-a-hundred-dimensions supersonic jet, almost killing the test pilot (an engineer who flies planes) 50 feet off the ground at 150 mph. Just the cost of training that pilot is easily in the millions of dollars.
Everyone agrees the budget process is nuts, right up until something like that happens. And then everyone who ever signed any document related to that airplane is able to sleep at night. Except the software teams that wrote or approved the code. They're going to loose sleep, and they know why.
Oh, and the DoD is a rounding error compared to CMS. They have routine fraud complaints that would sink a major defense contractor.
- bobthepanda 8y agoI think fraud detection and holding people accountable for safety lapses are two completely different problems calling for different solutions. Just because you have a hammer doesn't mean everything's a nail. If we didn't spend so much money on fraud detection via immense bureaucracy, that would increase the amount of money available to provision services.