Exactly. The idea is that contractors can be fired for a poor job, but the reality is that it rarely happens. Federal employees are rarely held accountable fo

Exactly. The idea is that contractors can be fired for a poor job, but the reality is that it rarely happens. Federal employees are rarely held accountable for their failures so in turn they rarely hold contractors accountable. Maybe that contractor doesn't get to stay on for option years, but many times they do for a myriad of reasons. Then there's the incestual revolving door between government and contracting companies. Government lead retires, then goes to work for the contractor they used to oversee. The biggest contractors use that as a prime mechanism for earning new business. In some companies the best path to get into senior management positions is by being a former Fed.