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You don't wonder at all why they needed a private company?
by kjaftaedi 5y ago
You don't wonder at all why they needed a private company?
- BrianOnHN 5y agoCover story. As in the DDS is the cover story for how easy it is to do a money grab in the US gov.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoDo you have a source for that claim?
- dillondoyle 5y agoFor tech & engineering specifically, sometimes used to get above the govt salary caps. But standard industrial complex profit maker makes sense too lol
- throwaway192874 5y agoHaving talked with a guy basically trying to recruit for it at the aerospace village at Defcon one year, I can say that working for the government without really working for them (e.g. not wearing suits) was a big part of how he sold it. That you're still a civilian and things like that, but get to work on cool stuff like hacking aircrafts
- Lammy 5y agoI figured they just like it that way for the deniability, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Air_Transport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Air_Transport