Federal and State governments should stop using contractors all together for software projects. Instead, hire a very large shared bank of highly-qualified engineers and pay competitive salaries. Even if those engineers sit around doing nothing most of the time (unlikely), they would still be extraordinarily cost-effective compared to pissing away hundreds of millions on projects that should only cost a few million.
IMO it's impossible to take deficit hawks seriously if they don't back a blanket policy of starving out leeching contractors.
There is a strong current of blind faith right now that private services/products are automatically the most efficient choice. Really there's a lot of market conditions that need to be in place before that's likely for a specific product or service, but careful consideration gets overrun in the bigger meme of gov't bad/companies good.
Federal and State governments should stop using contractors all together for software projects. Instead, hire a very large shared bank of highly-qualified engineers and pay competitive salaries. Even if those engineers sit around doing nothing most of the time (unlikely), they would still be extraordinarily cost-effective compared to pissing away hundreds of millions on projects that should only cost a few million.
IMO it's impossible to take deficit hawks seriously if they don't back a blanket policy of starving out leeching contractors.