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I wonder if this is the first example of government IT project specification failure? What the navy wanted was a simple way to calculate a ship's position - wh

I wonder if this is the first example of government IT project specification failure? What the navy wanted was a simple way to calculate a ship's position - which is exactly what they ended up with. What they didn't anticipate is that each device would cost twice as much as the ship it was going on.

greggsy 3y ago
That just increases the cost of the ship. It has become part of the ship’s navigation system. Not really a failure, just a justifiably expensive enhancement.