Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
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Re: Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
#2It's Oracle. Safra is super close to the administration [1]. The only reason this contract is out of the hands of Booz Allen et al is Oracle. This might be the worst-kept tech secret in D.C.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-12/trump-tea...
Re: Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
#3Secret? I thought it was quite obvious. Anyone who is going to miss out on the cash. that's who.
Re: Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
#4>SBD helped defense industry clients navigate the Pentagon bureaucracy and hone their marketing messages to government buyers, according to company spokesman Price Floyd, who was the assistant defense secretary for public affairs when Donnelly was on Mullen’s staff.
at least lobbyists are supposed to register. "Navigation and honing" in government contracting seems to be completely free wheeling.
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#5>SBD helped defense industry clients navigate the Pentagon bureaucracy and hone their marketing messages to government buyers, according to company spokesman Price Floyd, who was the assistant defense secretary for public affairs when Donnelly was on Mullen’s staff. at least lobbyists are supposed to register. "Navigation and honing" in government contracting seems to be completely free wheeling.
> at least lobbyists are supposed to register
I read this with a tone of defeat. :(
The lobbying situation is very bad, it is just corruption with extra steps. And its effects are the same one that corruption. Money gets diverted from public utility towards private hands. Cut lobbying and this "Navigation and honing" is also going to be reduced. When a behaviour is normalized it replicates at all levels.
Re: Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
#6It's Oracle. Safra is super close to the administration [1]. The only reason this contract is out of the hands of Booz Allen et al is Oracle. This might be the worst-kept tech secret in D.C. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-12/trump-tea...
So you were hoping that Booz Allen Hamilton would have some kind of role in helping the gov't procure this important service? Have you ever met them?
Re: Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
#7It's Oracle. Safra is super close to the administration [1]. The only reason this contract is out of the hands of Booz Allen et al is Oracle. This might be the worst-kept tech secret in D.C. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-12/trump-tea...
So you were hoping that Booz Allen Hamilton would have some kind of role in helping the gov't procure this important service? Have you ever met them?
> you were hoping that Booz Allen Hamilton would have some kind of role
I have no horse in this race. Not sure how you got that impression.
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#8Looking at Oracle's website, after getting past the hilarious Cookies Policy modal prompt, you really wouldn't think they were genuinely in the cloud business. It just looks like sales fodder with no substance behind it.
Re: Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
#9It's Oracle. Safra is super close to the administration [1]. The only reason this contract is out of the hands of Booz Allen et al is Oracle. This might be the worst-kept tech secret in D.C. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-12/trump-tea...
So you were hoping that Booz Allen Hamilton would have some kind of role in helping the gov't procure this important service? Have you ever met them?
I have. They're awful
Re: Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
#10It's Oracle. Safra is super close to the administration [1]. The only reason this contract is out of the hands of Booz Allen et al is Oracle. This might be the worst-kept tech secret in D.C. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-12/trump-tea...
Booze Allen and Oracle should both be banned from government contracts like this. Considering their histories they are clearly inept.