VA withholds disability claims executives' bonuses

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7. The DoD has been trying to make their computer systems auditable for a number of years

with an astounding lack of success.

I worked on a Verizon (I think we were Bell Atlantic at the time) project 20 some years ago that was going to solve billing problems which was the Holy Grail at the time. After a six month study, the executives were dismayed that the fix to the billing problems would not happen for 2 1/2 year period after the project started.

Being as executives are smarter than IT professionals we were ordered to started working on the billing system immediately. In other words, we don't have the time to fix all the backend systems that need to be fixed for the billing rewrite to succeed. Like trying to solve world hunger, that effort failed and degenerated into a highly-paid contractor-led effort to produce anything. Which meant we produced nothing.

Something similar to this must have occurred on the many attempts to fix the DoD/VA computer systems.