Not surprising (Score 5, Interesting)

I have worked on several large system designs for NWS and this does not surprise me at all. They are good at weather, but terrible at enterprise systems. That is not bad if you know that you are terrible, they do not. They believe they understand infrastructure as well as they know weather. My company has many NOAA contracts for design, deployment and sustainment of enterprise systems, we will not however bid on any NWS contracts as they are too dysfunctional to work with. Almost, but not quite, as bad as NASA - that is an organization that is seriously messed up.