tornadoken
What you say is no doubt true, but why mention "scope drift" which is down to the Services, and then civvies in the same breath.
It's a long time since I did my tour there but to add to tuc's point I remember big, complex projects being delivered by one or two guys, and small simple ones being mismanaged by large teams. You'd like to think Bechtel will get to grips with that.