PDA's seem like they would be a natural way to do a task like this which is entry of lots of basic data on the fly. Too bad the government is too damn incompetent to make it work.
As for the contractor: Why exactly are they NOT paying the three billion dollars and the Government is?
There's generally only one thing worse than the government for getting things done and that's government contractors who are awarded a massive contract with almost no peneltites for not ever getting the work done. I can't say I'd blame them though. If someone handed me a billion dollars and said "This is the money for doing (insert big complicated task). but we don't actually care if you do it or not. Feel free to drag your feet for a few years and then just never get it done. Actually, if you do that you get some more money." That would be hard to pass up for anyone
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PDA's seem like they would be a natural way to do a task like this which is entry of lots of basic data on the fly. Too bad the government is too damn incompetent to make it work.
As for the contractor: Why exactly are they NOT paying the three billion dollars and the Government is?
There's generally only one thing worse than the government for getting things done and that's government contractors who are awarded a massive contract with almost no peneltites for not ever getting the work done. I can't say I'd blame them though. If someone handed me a billion dollars and said "This is the money for doing (insert big complicated task). but we don't actually care if you do it or not. Feel free to drag your feet for a few years and then just never get it done. Actually, if you do that you get some more money." That would be hard to pass up for anyone