So I submitted this at work out of frustration after I went down the rabbit hole trying to find the phone number (seriously) for the NEC to get a simple questio

So I submitted this at work out of frustration after I went down the rabbit hole trying to find the phone number (seriously) for the NEC to get a simple question answered about managing/changing the UI on the sharepoint (because those rights are sequestered to literally one dude who works in a basement and is currently on leave) and got lost in the just awful intranet. The Army faces some different requirements for cloud services and business enterprise software, but most of the time at work I find myself just getting lost in how people think these things work versus how they actually work. I'll be out of the Army in 60 days, but most of what I do right now has to do with writing orders and building other data products. 9 times out of 10, the folks above me want to do things with microsoft products that they were just not built for. Powerpoint is not a place to store and analyze data, yet that's how the boss wants things. "Take this and make a powerpoint slide" is something I hear a lot. So I read this hoping to find some future hope in how things might be getting better in the future. Maybe. Mostly, I guess I hoped to generate some discussion amongst you folks at HN that undoubtedly know more than I do about how and why products work and about what the Army and the DoD at large could do to get better because for the first time since I commissioned I have a boss that likes to listen to what me and my peers have to say. As an aside, I also feel like Army leadership has a weird relationship with technology. Especially folks that, like me, are from a combat arms branch and are now on staff.