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The trend for the last couple of decades (since Reagan?) is: if it’s not used to kill people, contract it out. Systems that used to be run by DoD personnel are
by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
The trend for the last couple of decades (since Reagan?) is: if it’s not used to kill people, contract it out. Systems that used to be run by DoD personnel are now ran by Oracle/Microsoft in the cloud and Northrop/Raytheon and various small companies for on-premise.
- jml78 7y agoSorta but sorta not. Lots of things are contracted out but still run in DoD data centers with government oversight. Me = Former DoD software engineer of 12 years. But even so, there are a shit ton of DoD software people.
- bradknowles 7y agoThere’s an entire Agency of them. It’s called the Defense Information Systems Agency. And they’re not even the biggest in that space. I worked there for about five years.
- brisance 7y agoEven the "killing people" part is also contracted out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company