I can echo these concerns having been a contractor working on applications in more than one of the DoD cloud platforms, including CloudOne (a subset of Platform

I can echo these concerns having been a contractor working on applications in more than one of the DoD cloud platforms, including CloudOne (a subset of PlatformOne, for readers not familiar with the flurry of DoD cloud offerings that have sprung up over the last few years). I recently changed jobs in no small part because of the massive incompetence on the USAF side. It’s really quite stunning. My entire schedule was eaten up by unnecessary meetings where wholly unqualified USAF officers (current and retired) in PM or similar roles would pontificate endlessly about just absolute nonsense concerns. Like hours of arguing about how to label a button on a form. Constant bike shedding. No users involved meaningfully in the feedback cycle. And I swear all these old USAF guys just straight up hate their users. They will suggest the most user-abusing possible design because they think their users are stupid and need 10000 confirmation dialogs to avoid making mistakes. And on the legacy non-cloud side of things… it’s a horror show. No CI/CD. No testing (a lot of my job was bolting awkward test harnesses on to existing legacy software to compensate). Inconsistent and ever changing project management systems (they switched from TFS to Jama to Azure DevOps to Jama again and then when I left were talking about moving to JIRA. Our cocontractors were insanely unqualified. They were really proud of how cutting edge they were for adopting git for VCS. In 2019. It’s crazy how bad all of this software is, but at least it wasn’t on some internet connected server before.