> …so we paid BAE a third of a billion dollars to build a software platform that we then threw away in less than a decade, all because of an unrealistic origina

> …so we paid BAE a third of a billion dollars to build a software platform that we then threw away in less than a decade, all because of an unrealistic original goal (“a single platform for the US IC”). In their defense, that "unrealistic original goal" is a mistake all kinds of enterprises make, because at a high level there are obvious benefits and the problems are harder to see because they're at a lower level.