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Government procurement is a broken process today. The railroad companies were reimbursed once the track was set down. We need that for modern projects. Then com
by johnebgd 4y ago
Government procurement is a broken process today. The railroad companies were reimbursed once the track was set down. We need that for modern projects. Then competent people will get the job done and get paid.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoHow would you change the political culture of the US to go back to the mid 1800s without all the drawbacks of back then?
- ncmncm 4y agoNASA, SLS aside, is doing arguably non-broken procurement. SLS of course costs more than everything else combined. Very numerous cash-strapped municipal transit projects manage to avoid wasting money. It is well understood how not to waste money when that is actually intended. It is why we can be sure that waste is the whole point on such high-cost projects, better-equipped than others to engage competent management. Ensuring "waste" goes only where intended and not to others must be hard.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI’d be very careful of using the word ‘waste’ as many large programs would never have been passed through Congress in the first place without the ‘waste’ guaranteeing critical votes, such as the SLS. As in the alternative between ‘waste’ would likely be no program instead of some idealized ‘less wasteful’ program.