[njstraub608]

This. The Pentagon buried a McKinsey study detailing out $125 billion in waste with almost no pushback from the public and then comes a proposal for an additional $300 billion budget increase with no effort to optimize existing processes. Going to the cloud and modernizing technology will only solve some of the problems, the rest are non-technical (bureaucratic).

[hospes]

Just to put things into perspective, if pentagon optimizes it's spending and saves $125 Billion, all public colleges can be tuition free and government will still have ~$62 Billion left. [1]

Side note: Public colleges can also be made tuition free if government scraps financial aid programs that it has (~$69 Billion) and directly pays for all students that go to public colleges. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/heres-e...

[Nuzzerino]

Does that include the cost of retrofitting the colleges to handle the increased demand?

[cfadvan]

In theory, but in practice that money would never be used that way in the US of course.

[Spooky23]

The public college thing will never happen -- no state will ever shut off a faucet for federal funds.

[hospes]

For the reference https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pentagon-burie...