Apparently you can sell almost anything to the DoD. I bet there's some pretty hilarious SDI hardware rotting in a warehouse somewhere... right next to the 286 beige box whose serial port used to control it.
The million-dollar giant electric dildo is impressive, even for the American military.
And I'm here to testify, you can! I have! We sold them an entire Class 5 compliant system that was customized specifically for [WEAPONS SYSTEM REDACTED] (sorry, being deliberately imprecise with keywords because of the GOOG). We were only a drop in the bucket, a few million dollars out of $11+ billion. As far as I know the software was never used because the entire project was cancelled less than a year after we delivered.
The DoD procurement system is so completely fucked, and so riddled with corruption and incompetence, that I don't think there is a way to un-fuck it short of all-consuming nuclear fire.
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Reading between the lines gets me "and Rik wishes he could buy it."
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And I'm here to testify, you can! I have! We sold them an entire Class 5 compliant system that was customized specifically for [WEAPONS SYSTEM REDACTED] (sorry, being deliberately imprecise with keywords because of the GOOG). We were only a drop in the bucket, a few million dollars out of $11+ billion. As far as I know the software was never used because the entire project was cancelled less than a year after we delivered.
The DoD procurement system is so completely fucked, and so riddled with corruption and incompetence, that I don't think there is a way to un-fuck it short of all-consuming nuclear fire.
Another tale of what it takes to sell to the DoD (smoking weed by the pound apparently helps).
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