>>This hits all the right notes when it comes to dealing with
>>contractors. (No offense to any out there, but I've been to one too
>>many trade shows)
>>
>>"What does it do? Well, umm you know, it supports the warfighter,
>>and...stuff"
>
>Especially while doing the Monster II writeup, I kept flashing
>back to the sequence from the old Doctor Who episode "The
>Pirate Planet" in which a furious Fourth Doctor turns to the Pirate
>Captain and demands, "But what's it for?!"
>
>--G.
>-><-
>Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
>Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

As long as some nitwit doesn't start screaming to you about "metadata" in the middle of mission planning, I think you're good to go. As much as I love those guys, there's days when I want to strangle every contractor I can get my hands on, for pushing new systems before we've learned the current ones, because the number of systems keeps growing, and the number of redundant and incompatible systems increases exponentially, the number of days we have to allocate to teaching how to button mash spirals out of control as we speak in fact, and because they think "efficiencies" is a word.....

Ughhhhh....

"A good plan executed now is better than a perfect plan next week" - Gen George S. Patton, Jr.