Sunday, March 27, 2011

How to waste $Billions

First you go to war against a stone age opponent and when they develop improvised mines against your troops you call on hundreds of overpriced and undercapable contractors to charge you $Billions for counter technology that doesn't work.
In February 2006, with roadside bombs killing more and more American soldiers in Iraq, the Pentagon created an agency to defeat the deadly threat and tasked a retired four-star general to run it.

Five years later, the agency has ballooned into a 1,900-employee behemoth and has spent nearly $17 billion on hundreds of initiatives. Yet the technologies it's developed have failed to significantly improve U.S. soldiers' ability to detect unexploded roadside bombs and have never been able to find them at long distances. Indeed, the best detectors remain the low-tech methods: trained dogs, local handlers and soldiers themselves.
But the best methods don't make anyone rich so just keep those glitzy high tech solutions coming in and we will keep throwing good money after bad.

// posted by montag @ 1:43 PM
Comments:
Because that's what we do best now in the U.S.

Thanks for the heads-up!

S

P.S. Subconscious hint of where jobs lie in word ver?

"ountaxi"

just keep those glitzy high tech solutions coming in and we will keep throwing good money after bad.
# posted by Blogger Cirze : 3:17 PM
 

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