content: Did you miss the recent report about the military still running systems on 8" floppies and systems written in COBOL/FORTRAN or whatever? There was some hand waving "They do it because technology today just isn't as good as the ole' stuff!" but that was mostly bollocks. You can corrupt old floppies for instance by looking at them the wrong way. The point here being that I wouldn't attribute inherent competence to an organization, especially not in all facets, just because we blow hundreds of billions on them.  Lockheed's the same company that spent more than a decade and $1.5 trillion of taxpayer dollar, greater than the GDP of most nations in the world, developing a new jet fighter that's still plagued with reported design flaws and issues and as of about a year ago was still having issues with little things like catching on fire during lift off. Hanlon's razor, oh yeah - Hanlon's razor.