There Are Plenty of Reasons Why Government Tech Is Stuck in the Stone Age
21st April 2023
Other than the obvious one, incompetence.
I am always amused by the moves that show the CIA or the FBI using the latest and greatest tech in their operations, or military systems that are always cutting-edge and perfectly integrated. When I was in the Navy, we were lucky if the tech we maintained was only 20 years out of date.
April 22nd, 2023 at 07:01
Government sometimes does have cutting edge toys, but it’s very much the exception and not the rule. You don’t have to be a career three letter agency spook to understand that the most critical operations will have James Bond like tech, when available. But the rank and file? Forget it. Drawn-out procurement process and other bureacracy gurantee that equipment acquisition is slow, painful and expensive. In fairness to the Feds, however, they often do use products for decades, often long after they became obsolete. We are still flying military planes that date to (nearly) WW II.
April 22nd, 2023 at 10:12
And don’t get me started regarding our air traffic control system.