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I have worked on a few goverment projects and quite often they do it to themselves.
I will give you a quick example.
I'm an engineer, and work in the tool engineering department for a large aerospace firm. On the B2 program, if we needed 3 bushings of a particular size, we could only order 3 bushings. Well the suppliers only sell them in lots of 100. So we would end up paying the price of 100 bushings for those 3 bushings. And we could not order a spare. We might cheat the goverment after all. So if we lost one, or it collapsed when being installed we would order another one, once again paying the price of 100, for that one bushing.
That is part of the reason for the outragous prices you see on some things. The other was the MIL-SPEC's that controlled them. For the most part those have gone away, so that helps somewhat.
Believe me, as a tax payer it would really frustrate me at times to see the money wasted like I have discribed above.
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