> Obviously that only goes so far, but generally there is less tribal knowledge within a DOD program than in most commercial engineering efforts. Within a well

> Obviously that only goes so far, but generally there is less tribal knowledge within a DOD program than in most commercial engineering efforts. Within a well run DoD program. Most of the larger programs are not well run, in my personal experience. And DoD did this silly thing where it let contractors keep the rights to their engineering data until relatively recently, meaning that US taxpayer dollars are funding the purchase of hardware the government by definition can't understand, because the government isn't allowed to know about or look at much of the engineering data. So there's a HUGE amount of tribal knowledge in some of these programs because there's nothing else to reference.