[ NNSquad ] How the US Air Force flushed a $1B software project down the drain

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

How the US Air Force flushed a $1B software project down the drain

http://j.mp/1211Ul0  (New York Times)

   "Signs that such comprehensive change could not, in fact, be done "at
    once" were visible last spring. Last April, Jamie M. Morin, assistant
    secretary of the Air Force, testified before a subcommittee of the
    Senate's Armed Services Committee about E.C.S.S.: "The total cost on
    the system is now over $1 billion," he said, adding, "I am personally
    appalled at the limited capabilities that program has produced
    relative to that amount of investment."  With the cancellation of the
    system last month, a spokeswoman said that the Air Force would
    continue to rely on its legacy logistics systems, some of which have
    been in use since the 1970s."

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