Apolitical civil service government organizations are good at sustained operations and incremental growth/change. They are bad at rapid change. The controls the

Apolitical civil service government organizations are good at sustained operations and incremental growth/change. They are bad at rapid change. The controls they have are reasonably effective at preventing the type of corruption that you see. The coal/rail/electric supply chain is a breeding ground for all sorts of shenanigans for all sorts of people. Plenty of drunken uncles have bullshit jobs in the utility and rail space. That culture permeates into new projects as well. In the Federal space, that kind of crap doesn't fly for long.