Lowest bidder (Score 4, Insightful)

This is what happens when you give contracts to the lowest bidder. The military may have tons of money, but that doesn't mean they spend it wisely. Even if it's not a contracted company taking care of these servers, and it's government employees (there's a difference), a LOT of those employees get their jobs based on keywords and general qualifications and several have a 'I did my time in the military and retired, they owe me this for all the hard work I did before' attitude. Not everyone is like that, and I've met some government employees (in the tech field) who really did know their stuff.. and not all contracts are bad -- but they can turn sour when a company steps in, says they'll do all that and more for this much less, and they really don't know what they're doing. I've seen that happen too. And if it's managed by soldiers.. well. They always told us, you're a soldier first, and a 'whatever your job is' after. Most technically trained soldiers don't know how to do their job well, or even at all. They just tough it out until they're an NCO, and then they're supposed to be a leader and tell their underlings to do the work.