The Department of Defense is spending billions modernizing the IT systems it uses for everything from health care and human capital needs to logistics and contracting. These efforts to modernize IT aim to improve how DOD does business, conducts day-to-day operations, and increase cybersecurity. But several of DOD’s efforts have seen large cost increases and are behind schedule by a year or more.Today’s WatchBlog post looks at our latest annual assessment of DOD’s IT systems.
The cost of them not having the source code or the right to repair the shit they bought and paid for with our tax dollars.