Having worked there for a while over the last few years... DSDA is a mess.
Lots of legacy systems that dont talk to each other, or are no longer supported by their manufacturers, EDS running the show on other systems - and running rings around DSDA's Service Delivery Managers whilst coining it in hand over fist...
Systems that should have been replaced years ago still in service, expertise to run those systems leaving in droves... and the likes of MMiT and FLIS - god, FLIS in particular - I wouldnt be counting on those two things to improve anything. FLIS is just a giant outsourcing deal to scoop up a lot of the legacy apps that cant/wont live on DII and push them off DSDA's books so they dont have to have any technical expertise in looking after them. And none of the FLIS bidders will have the slightest reason to improve things or to create newer fit for purpose systems - why bother when you can make more money for longer (without the expense of development) by continuing to flog the same old dead horses?
Add that to a civil serpent management team who have taken the art of fudging decisions to an artform.
No wonder they cant find half of this hardware. Its not the in transit bit that is the problem. Its the inventory management at either end and the leadership of DSDA that is screwed.
Granted some of these things used to happen back in the bad old cold war days, where kit would be lost. But not like this. It was never this bad in my day, etc etc...
