Pretty much every significant DoD acquisition has been like this: late and over-budget. Incidentally, those are features of almost every major software project

Pretty much every significant DoD acquisition has been like this: late and over-budget. Incidentally, those are features of almost every major software project I'm aware of as well. Obviously that's not a good pattern, and the DoD should certainly improve its procurement process, but it's not the existential crisis it's made out to be in the media sometimes. The contractors keep working, and the system eventually is in a working state.