This is business as usual in government contracting. The goal is not really to deliver working software - instead, it's multiple companies working together to f

This is business as usual in government contracting. The goal is not really to deliver working software - instead, it's multiple companies working together to figure out how they can maximally extract income from an entity with unfathomably deep pockets. It's layer upon layer of red tape sprinkled with the occasional sociopath just to spice things up. The filthiest part is that nobody but the taxpayer is interested in things being more efficient. The government agencies don't really care because there is no real financial accountability. Besides, if they use up all their budgets, they just get to ask for more next year. And contractors generally have their profits limited to a percentage of the project cost, so their goal is to balloon the cost as large as possible. For several years I worked on a very large government project. When you're sitting in a two-hour, 100 person, sprint review every two weeks and everyone is fucking off on their phones the whole time, it literally makes you question your sanity.