> It's unacceptable work from our vendors and procurement processes… It's as if our procurement process and the vendor collaborated to absolve themselves from a

> It's unacceptable work from our vendors and procurement processes… It's as if our procurement process and the vendor collaborated to absolve themselves from any responsibility by serving us such an aggressively unhelpul[sic] tool. If subs were companies, competition would solve this problem. Some enterprising engineer says to herself "I can build a better VMS" and does. Since it's 10x better than the existing VMS, some submarine crews adopt it, and pretty soon it's in widespread use across the fleet. Engineer profits, sub crews are more effective and probably it's cheaper too. But it's the government, even worse it's defense. So regulations and secrecy (some reasonable, some not) muddy the waters until everyone's blind, including apparently the VMS.