Originally Posted by
GlobalNav
The FAA has a miserable reputation for conducting acquisition programs.
That is absolutely true with all federal agencies. As @tdracer stated, the Federal Government is simply incompetent in IT acquisition. If you want another example, look at the absolute confusion generated by the DoD's billion dollar JEDI and REAN cloud computing contracts. When you hold an industry day and companies like IBM, MS, Oracle walk out shaking their heads that just about says it all....And even after a successful award (such as the IC contract with AWS), the cultural resistance and micro-management in migrating to commercial vendors and current technologies is extreme. The gov't believes they can save taxpayer dollars and fix everything with these incredibly large IT mega-contracts - one size fits all solution to all agency problems. It hasn't worked in the past and doesn't work now.