I'm not really qualified to speak about weapons and military technology, but I can smell waste when it's a big pile of steaming shit right out there in front of me like anyone else. Thank goddess for people like the find DT crew, who do the dirty work so I don't have to. I'm fairly sure there isn't enough blogspace out there to cover all the examples of this:

One Pentagon agency that's been particularly aggro in its dealing with the press has been the Joint IED Defeat Organization. The groups, which started in 2003 as a "12-person office to develop quick strategies for combating homemade bombs in Iraq -- has quietly expanded into a $3 billion-per-year arm of the Pentagon, with more than 300 employees and thousands of contract workers," the Boston Globe notes. And like most fast-growing start-ups, the JIEDDO is having trouble figuring out what its focus should be.