{"id":188484,"date":"2010-09-18T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/18\/a-depiction-of-the-levels-of-hell\/"},"modified":"2010-09-18T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T20:34:00","slug":"a-depiction-of-the-levels-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/18\/a-depiction-of-the-levels-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Depiction of the Levels of Hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\">Click for full size (640 KB)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img844.imageshack.us\/img844\/5799\/atlwallchart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BPo3ajI.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Your tax dollars at work<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Or maybe just a description of development, procurement, and life cycle support costs of a weapons system for the Pentagon \u2026\u2026\u2026 but I repeat myself.<\/p>\n<p>The problem here is that each one of these steps represents a place where some private contractor can sit astride the process and extract a toll.<\/p>\n<p>This why it takes 25 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">years<\/span> and billions of dollars to develop the next fighter aircraft, when the P-80 was delivered just 180 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">days<\/span> after the go ahead was given.<\/p>\n<p>If this is what the past 50 years of developments in systems engineering have given us, perhaps, just maybe, there are some deep flaws in the underlying assumptions of that profession.<\/p>\n<p>The source for the link is the <a href=\"http:\/\/ilc.dau.mil\/\">Defense Acquisition University<\/a>, and yes Virginia, there is a Defense Acquisition University, and they have a handy, dandy interactive flash version available on site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size (640 KB) Your tax dollars at work Or maybe just a description of development, procurement, and life cycle support costs of a weapons system for the Pentagon \u2026\u2026\u2026 but I repeat myself. The problem here is that each one of these steps represents a place where some private contractor can sit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1008,968],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}