{"id":195387,"date":"2008-07-12T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/12\/spiral-development-as-the-latest-procurement-scam\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T11:47:00","slug":"spiral-development-as-the-latest-procurement-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/12\/spiral-development-as-the-latest-procurement-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiral Development as the Latest Procurement Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CDI has a good review of the process, which gained much of its currency in missile defense, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdi.org\/program\/document.cfm?DocumentID=4336&amp;from_page=..\/index.cfm\">spread like Athlete&#8217;s Foot to infect the US defense procurement process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the project is never done, and never needs to meet requirements, because there is always a &#8220;spiral&#8221; upgrade that takes care of some short coming.<\/p>\n<p>The full report is a PDF, though the summary linked to is not.<\/p>\n<p>I encountered this worthless bullsh%$  while working FCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDI has a good review of the process, which gained much of its currency in missile defense, and has spread like Athlete&#8217;s Foot to infect the US defense procurement process. Basically, the project is never done, and never needs to meet requirements, because there is always a &#8220;spiral&#8221; upgrade that takes care of some &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195387"}],"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=195387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}