E4 - How the Pentagon Buys Stuff
The Merge
Oversight Is Great, but Sometimes It's Not
The Pentagon used to have a billion dollar budgeting system, even as late as the 90s. The department still uses this industrial era kind of process where they think they can predict and control things. This year's NDAA is was 4,400 pages long - longer than the entire NDAA up through the 70s.
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