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Why the hell does the pentagon outsource this?
by Ericson2314 7y ago
Why the hell does the pentagon outsource this?
- logfromblammo 7y agoSo it'll come out of a different line-item in the budget.
- jrockway 7y agoI'm guessing that paying a contractor to support both the Navy and the Air Force is easier than figuring out who from the Navy and Air Force will lead the combined training effort. I assume this is like one department of a company using Azure and the other using AWS because nobody wants to share their turf. Writing a check is easier than talking to your coworkers.
- riazrizvi 7y agoIt’s a great solution to a problem of conflicted interests. If the USAF gets a massive budget to protect us against air threats, how can you trust them to conduct honest tests? They are motivated to only ever report great news on how awesome a job they are doing always. Here you create an incentive structure for people to really try to figure out how to beat them. It’s the same reason a company might hire an outside firm to do penetration testing, rather than ask its head of cyber security, “Hey why don’t you conduct a test to see if you are doing an awesome job, as we need to figure out whether to fire you or give you more money”.
- andrekandre 7y agonot to sound condescending, but i’ve got news for you: outsourced contractors will tell you what you pay them to tell you of course all that depends on the contractor, who’s doing the hiring, and the industry etc but the point is, just because it’s outsourced doesn’t mean the incentive structure will “work” any better than internally
- breischl 7y agoThere was a very nice top-level comment about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834981