> Whenever government thinks they know how to specify the best engineering method to solve a user requirement, they are generally wrong. It's not that they're

> Whenever government thinks they know how to specify the best engineering method to solve a user requirement, they are generally wrong. It's not that they're usually wrong, they simply aren't attempting to optimize towards that at all. Most The government tends to make decisions optimized against political merit, not engineering efficacy or solution fit. The reason they generally appear wrong is because generally engineering efficacy and solution fit have little if any positive correlation with political merit.