I did a bit of government contracting early on in my career and this seems about right to me.
I think overall the government contracting experiment has failed. I saw my fair share of corruption and ineptitude on the side of the contractors who did everything they could to stall out projects, under deliver or embed themselves hard so that the government was forced to keep using their horrific product.
I think there's just too much incentive for contractors to cheat the system that it results in poor quality software. The people I met were fantastic engineers and smart workers, but management would hold people back or actively engaged in efforts to sabotage developers because getting work done actually meant less profits for them.
I think overall the government contracting experiment has failed. I saw my fair share of corruption and ineptitude on the side of the contractors who did everything they could to stall out projects, under deliver or embed themselves hard so that the government was forced to keep using their horrific product.
I think there's just too much incentive for contractors to cheat the system that it results in poor quality software. The people I met were fantastic engineers and smart workers, but management would hold people back or actively engaged in efforts to sabotage developers because getting work done actually meant less profits for them.