http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/08/14/you-really-cant-make-this-stuff-up Looking for clues at the scene of the crime Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/08/14/you-really-cant-make-this-stuff-up/comment-page-1#comment-3103 Project Valour-IT: Flightdeck Friday Video Edition | Steeljaw Scribe Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:03:35 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/08/14/you-really-cant-make-this-stuff-up/#comment-3103 [...] Oh yeah - one other thing, we’ve paroled the Apprentices   after their contretemps   last year and they’ll be posting for us over the weekend.  Operative term here being [...] [...] Oh yeah – one other thing, we’ve paroled the Apprentices   after their contretemps   last year and they’ll be posting for us over the weekend.  Operative term here being [...]

]]> http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/08/14/you-really-cant-make-this-stuff-up/comment-page-1#comment-327 Ed T Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:33:11 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/08/14/you-really-cant-make-this-stuff-up/#comment-327 The system is the system. Many different SecDef's have tried many different methods of acquisition reform but none has had the kind of impact that would lead to a "sensible" process by your expectations. And don't forget Congress is involved too, they have to pass TWO bills, one to authorize the budget for purchases and one to FUND that same authorization. Those bills can be seriously different. So even IF there was a fast-track process (which there sorta is but its still slow by civilian standards) the money has to be there from Congress to buy the items or has to be taken (and moved..which requires more paper) from other areas. The areas that lose the $$ can put up a fight within the system or via their CongressCritters. Case in point was body armor and up-armored HUMVEEs for the troops in Iraq, that process kicked off close to 2 yrs ago, Congress gave DoD the money pretty fast and the needs are just now getting filled. You can't turn the Titanic on a dime. The system is the system. Many different SecDef’s have tried many different methods of acquisition reform but none has had the kind of impact that would lead to a “sensible” process by your expectations. And don’t forget Congress is involved too, they have to pass TWO bills, one to authorize the budget for purchases and one to FUND that same authorization. Those bills can be seriously different. So even IF there was a fast-track process (which there sorta is but its still slow by civilian standards) the money has to be there from Congress to buy the items or has to be taken (and moved..which requires more paper) from other areas. The areas that lose the $$ can put up a fight within the system or via their CongressCritters. Case in point was body armor and up-armored HUMVEEs for the troops in Iraq, that process kicked off close to 2 yrs ago, Congress gave DoD the money pretty fast and the needs are just now getting filled. You can’t turn the Titanic on a dime.

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