"The shift comes after a string of reports by the Government Accountability Office raising questions about the Pentagon's ability to oversee complex LSI projects, and amid growing concern in Congress that the military has given too much say to the private sector. Severe problems with the Coast Guard's $24 billion Deepwater fleet-modernization program didn't help, either, experts say."
The LSI model "doesn't work. We know that now," said James J. Carafano, a defense analyst with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington. "It definitely doesn't work politically — Congress doesn't have trust and confidence that it's a credible process — and it doesn't really work practically."
the article is right on one aspect, we give contractors too much that we can do ourselves. like this one;
Allied Technology Wins $10 Million U.S. Coast Guard Command Center Watch Stander Support Contract - Allied Technology was awarded a $10 million, five-year contract under its GSA IT Schedule Contract to provide watch standers at the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters and area command centers. The personnel assigned under the contract support the operation of the command and control systems at the command centers, providing tactical updates, situation awareness and system administration support for the operation of the Global Command and Control System – Joint, operational support of Coast Guard communications networks, and support of on-going command center operations. Personnel are assigned at the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC., Coast Guard Pacific Area Command in Alameda, California, and the U.S. Atlantic Area Command in Portsmouth, Virginia.
I think we should kick the contractors out of the comcenters and do it all in-house.
There will be much gnashing to teeth over the next few months when the bigger picture of corruption of the present government becomes disclosed to the public.
Sac Metal: I understand your point. Is this like contracting out security at Coast Guard bases? Should it be military personnel that handle security matters? From what I've read out discussion is about what is "inheritly governmental" functions.
By the way, I don't work for Allied Technical. Let alone, I don't work for a contractor that would be a competitor to the current Deepwater contractors.
