Crappy pieces of software like that cannot simply be wholly blamed on the vendor. It's up to navy leadership to decide how to distribute funds to vendors to dev

Crappy pieces of software like that cannot simply be wholly blamed on the vendor. It's up to navy leadership to decide how to distribute funds to vendors to develop software. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a high up navy officer who likes VMS, thinks that the missions planing process is fine the way it is, and doesn't want to allocate money for anything beyond bug fixes. Things like that happen all the time in government software contracting.