US to business: “Take our weapons – please”

This is a real problem and Scott highlights the problem of allowing contractors to keep software proprietary.  He doesn’t have to point out what happens when a company that designs weapons and is then acquired by a foreign company, or off-shored – and then we’ve lost control.  This problem is bubbling much as the crappy home loan problem bubbled.  Eventually someone will be crying “whodathunkit?”  John Scott thunk it – that’s who.

For years, the U.S. military has been losing an asymmetric battle that involves not improvised explosive devices, bullets or al-Qaida, but instead swarms of defense industry contractors seizing control of taxpayer-funded ideas because government policy and regulations were engineered to buy iron and steel, not to deploy a software-based military.

via Pentagon Is Losing the Softwar(e) – Defense News.