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"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
> You must *not* have heard of the new *huge* data center for the NSA
> that opened in Utah...
>
> https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

there is the rapidly growing "success of failure" culture
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

some past posts
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failure

and huge uptic in outsourcing last decade (in just these agencies, 70%
of budget and over half the people)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/

we've made snide remarks that the failures are just excuse for enormous
increases in contracts for appropriations to technology related
for-profit commercial operations (if the amount of spending doesn't fix
the problem, then spend more).

The "spies like us" reference that "private equity" operations ... some
past posts
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity

have heavily moved into doing LBO takeover of gov. contractors ... the
outsourcing and private equity has some possible overlapping motivations
1) gov. agencies can't spend budget on congress, 2) gov. contractors
can't spend money from gov. contracts on congress; however private
equity owners can spend all sorts of money on congress (and it is
ambiguous whether the money actually comes from gov. contractors)
... and there is enormous amount of money to be skimmed off from
gov. contractors (like article references security clearances were
outsourced ... and they were just filling out the paper work and not
actually doing background checks ... making more money available to
their private equity owners)

Note that former president of AMEX after he leaves as head of IBM,
becomes head of large private equity company ... and will do LBO
take-over of company mentioned in the "spies like us" article and
employer of Snowden.
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#guerstner

Standard process going back to at least 70s-80s (in financial and gov)
is multi-party operations for sensitive operations (as countermeasure to
insider threats). After the Snowden event, I raised the issue of what
happened to multi-party operations.  A few weeks later there was some
press item that the gov.  was looking at (returning to?) multi-party
operations for sensitive operations. One question about not having
multi-party operation was that (also) a cost cuting move by the
gov. contractor??

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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