Only those that haven't worked in DoD / federal systems could ever think that laziness / stupidity is not a major root cause of so many DoD IT project failures. There's a lot of successes when using smaller, elite contractors but complexity intertwines with stupidity as larger contractors must be brought in to handle the bureaucracy and their hiring standards are basically abysmal. Why? They were very much incentivized to hire butts in seats on contracts historically, not to be effective at executing them to technical satisfaction.

Someone needs to call out DoD for what it really is in the US - federal Public Works program that's approved by neoconservatives.