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The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

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285 points ridruejo | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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giraffe_lady ◴[11 Nov 25 14:57 UTC] No.45887943[source]▶
Embarrassing regurgitation of propaganda. This is basically the military DOGE. Are these systems dysfunctional in some ways, could well-intended sweeping reforms improve them? Sure, maybe, I don't know much about it.

Is that what's happening here? No, this a way to get the existing functions out from under the oversight and constraints of acquisition laws to reduce friction for corruption and war profiteering.

If you fell for DOGE don't fall for this too.

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andrewmutz ◴[11 Nov 25 16:10 UTC] No.45888983[source]▶
Steven Blank (the author) is a respected member of the startup community and is not partisan. He's been working with the defense department for 10 years (across both administrations) to modernize the way the military buys technology.

His work to create the "hacking for defense" project to modernize things is not at all like DOGE and preceeds it by many years

https://www.h4d.us/

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1. mindslight ◴[11 Nov 25 22:28 UTC] No.45893764[source]▶
I think the setup is that our society needs a lot of reforms, and everyone has their pet reforms they've focused on the need for. But rather than have any sort of coherent constructive plan, the fascists will shamelessly say multiple contradictory things that each sound good in isolation. So then people get drawn into playing "4d chess" trying to pick out signal from the noise, assuming that there must be some kind of higher goals in there beyond embezzlement and deprecation of the Constitutional government in favor of some corporate oligarchy.